Lawyers for Lawyers Award

The Lawyers for Lawyers Award is awarded to a lawyer or group of lawyers who work to promote the rule of law and human rights in an exceptional way and are threatened because of their work. The Lawyers for Lawyers Award is presented bi-annually, most recently in May 2019 to lawyer Selçuk Kozağaçlı from Turkey.

Award laureate 2019

Selçuk Kozağaçlı

Selçuk Kozağaçlı is a lawyer from Turkey. He is well-known for working on the “Soma Mine” disaster, the worst mine disaster in Turkey’s history, in which 301 miners were killed. He is also president of the ÇHD, an association which focuses on the right to life and advocates for the prevention of all types of attacks on fundamental rights and human dignity. On 20 March 2019, Selçuk Kozağaçlı was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison in connection to his work as a lawyer. He was awarded the Lawyers for Lawyers Award 2019.

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Award laureate 2017

Sirikan Charoensiri

Sirikan Charoensi is co-founder of Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), a lawyer collective that was established shortly after the 2014 military coup in Thailand. Charoensiri provides legal support in high-profile human right cases on a pro-bono basis.

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Award laureate 2015

Jorge Eliécer Molano Rodríguez

Jorge Molano is a Colombian lawyer who defends human rights. Because of that reason, both he and his family were threatened, his and house and computer were broken into and his telephone was tapped.

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Award laureate 2013

Magamed Abubakarov

Magamed Abubakarov is an ethnical Chechen who mainly practices in cases that are politically sensitive in the Russian Federation. Because of his activities he is threatened on a regular basis and had to flee the Russian Federation twice. In 2011, he was hit by a car, shattering his legs and resulting in a revalidation period of a year. The authorities refused to investigate the incident.

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Award laureate 2011

Alec Muchadehama

Alec Muchadehama defends various human rights activists, members of the opposition and civilians in Zimbabwe. Because of his activities he is constantly threatened, in many cases by the government. He has been put under surveillance, physically threatened, arrested and put on trial. After a kidnapping attempt, he was forced to go into hiding in an embassy.

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