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Lawyers for Lawyers Seminar

L4L invites you to the seminar: “Lawyers are not their clients” + Presentation of the L4L-Award 2015 It is the 25th anniversary of the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers and L4L is organizing the seminar ‘Lawyers are not

Lawyers for Lawyers Award for Jorge Molano!

Colombia

Jorge Molano, a Colombian Human Rights Lawyer and member of DHColombia, is selected to receive the Lawyers for Lawyers Award 2015. An expert jury selected Molano because of his “immense personal courage and stamina” and to “draw attention to the

L4L Magamed Abubakarov receives Lawyers for Lawyers Award

On 31 May 2013, Russian lawyer Magamed Abubakarov received the Lawyers for Lawyers Award. The award was handed over to him by Alec Muchadehama from Zimbabwe, who received the award two years ago. Magamed Abubakarov was praised by the jury

L4L Magamed Abubakarov to receive Lawyers for Lawyers Award

Magamed Abubakarov, a Russian human rights lawyer specialized in terrorist cases in the North-Caucasus, will receive the Lawyers for Lawyers Award 2013. Magamed Abubakarov will accept the award on 31 May at the end of a seminar called ‘Lawyers controlled,

L4L Muchadehama speaks about the positive effects

At the Annual Congress of the Dutch Bar Association on 23 September 2011, Zimbabwean human rights Lawyer Alec Muchadehama spoke about his work in Zimbabwe with regard to the main theme of the congress; ‘Ethical dilemmas, without borders’. Muchadehama has

Annual Congress of Dutch Bar Association 2011 – Special guest Alec Muchadehama

At the invitation of L4L, Alec Muchadehama, who received the first Lawyers for Lawyers Award on 15 April 2011, will attend the Annual Congress of the Dutch Bar Association in the Breda on 23 September. L4L will organize a workshop

Dagestan Procedural irregularities in case against Magomedova

Russian Federation

L4L organizes a letter writing campaign in order to ask attention for the situation of Sapiyat Magomedova, a lawyer from Dagestan. In July 2010, Magomedova launched an official complaint against members of the police for beating and forcibly removing her

Kyrgyzstan Physical violence against lawyer

L4L would like to bring to your attention the situation of lawyer Tatiana Tomina. Tatiana Tomina is a lawyer from the Human Rights Advocacy Center in Osh Ms. Tomina, and is representing an ethnic Uzbek on trial in relation to

Syria Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs speaks with Al-Maleh

Haitham al-Maleh, the Syrian lawyer who was released from prison on 8 March 2011, visited Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Rosenthal on 11 August 2011. According to a press release of the Ministry, “[Rosenthal] expressed his sympathy with the Syrian

Syria Haitham al-Maleh visits International Criminal Court

On 5 August 2011, Syrian human rights lawyer Haitham al-Maleh, who was released from prison on 8 March 2011, visited the International Criminal Court in The Hague to speak to a representative of Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo. L4L arranged the

Syria Letter L4L & LRWC to Syrian Bar Association

In a joint letter to the Syrian Bar Association (also in Arabic), L4L and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) called upon the Bar Association to annul the disbarment-for-life of Muhanad al-Hasani. By doing so, it would reconfirm the decision taken

Iran Joint statement to release Ali Dadkhah from prison

L4L has issued a joint statement with Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada in which they urge the Iranian authorities that Ali Dadkhah will be released from prison.