Providing protective publicity and support to unjustly jailed lawyers
Lawyers
For the #FreeTheLawyers campaign, Lawyers for Lawyers has highlighted the cases of seven of courageous lawyers who are unjustly jailed for upholding the rule of law: Mahienour El-Massry from Egypt, Selçuk Kozağaçlı from Turkey, Li Yuhan and Yu Wensheng from China, Nasrin Sotoudeh from Iran, Waleed Abu al-Khair from Saudi Arabia and Buzurgmehr Yorov from Tajikistan. Read more about these seven lawyers below. The illustrations were made by Elisabeth van der Spek.