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1 October 2010

Syria MEA 2010 for Al-Hassani: ‘A man of an exceptional courage, arbitrarily detained’

Muhanad al-Hassani, the Syrian lawyer who was sentenced to 3 years in prison in the spring of 2010, will be awarded the most important human rights prize, the Martin Ennals Award, on 15 October 2010. The son of the imprisoned

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27 September 2010

Colombia Manifestation against CAJAR for complaint Uribe

Several prominent Colombian politicians organized a manifestation against lawyers collective José Alvear Restrepo (CAJAR) on 1 September 2010. This collective was to lodge a complaint against former President Uribe on 2 September 2010. During the manifestation, the action of CAJAR

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8 September 2010

Iran Authorities arrest human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh

On 4 September 2010 another human rights lawyer was arrested in Iran. Nasrin Sotoudeh is the lawyer of – among others – the Iranian-Dutch human rights activist Zahra Bahrami, who recently turned out to have been detained in an Iranian

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9 August 2010

China Missing lawyer awarded by ABA

On 6 August 2010, the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law awarded Gao Zhisheng with the International Human Rights Lawyer Award. Zhisheng had been missing for fourteen months, reappeared earlier this year, but went missing again shortly afterwards. Therefore

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9 August 2010

Honduras Lawyer Kenia Olivia Cardona subject to threats

Amnesty International has initiated a letter writing campaign for Kenia Olivia Cardona on 29 July 2010. She works as a lawyer in Honduras for the ‘Comité de Familiares Detenidos Desapericidos en Honduras’ (COFADEH). Since the coup in June 2009, the

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2 August 2010

Syria Haitham Al-Maleh sentenced to 3 years

On 7 July 2010, Haitham al-Maleh was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment by the Syrian Secondary Military Court. The 79-year-old human rights lawyer was charged with ‘the spreading of false information that was damaging for the morale of the nation’,

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2 August 2010

Colombia L4L supports amicus curiae to constitutional court

On 5 March 2010, the Commision Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ) and the Colombian NGO Corporación Reiniciar submitted a request to the Constitutional Court of Colombia to declare certain articles of the law 1288 of 2009 unconstitutional. This law “… sets

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23 July 2010

Mexico Human rights lawyer Blanca Mesina receives death threats

Mrs. Blanca Mesina is a lawyer in the Mexican City of Tijuana, close to the border with the US, some 20 miles from San Diego. Tijuana is known for its vivid drug trade and other crime and because many Mexicans

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31 May 2010

Iran Shadi Sadr convicted to 6 years and 74 lashes

Shadi Sadr, the Iranian lawyer who received several human rights awards including the Dutch Tulip for Human Rights in 2009, has been sentenced in absentia to a prison term of 6 years and 74 lashes on 16 May 2010. As

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27 May 2010

Iran Mohammad Olyaeifard sentenced to 1 year in prison

Mohammad Olyaeifard started serving a one year sentence on 1 May 2010. He was arrested because of an interview in which he spoke out against the execution of one of his clients, Behnoud Shojaee. Shojaee was 17 years old at

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12 May 2010

Mexico L4L comes to action for Alba Cruz

L4L spoke to Mexican lawyer Alba Cruz Ramos on May 3rd, 2010. Because of Alba’s work, many political prisoners in the Oaxaca region have been released. In a case started by Alba and her Comité 25 Noviembre colleagues, the Mexican

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5 May 2010

Syria Amsterdam Dean and L4L attend trial Al Hassani

On 4 May 2010 the President of the Amsterdam Bar Associaton Germ Kemper and L4L board member Joost Italianer attended the trial against Syrian lawyer and human rights activist Muhanad al-Hassani in Damascus. He was arrested in July 2009 and

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