Publications

TURKEY: Observation of the hearings of Betül Vangölü Kozagaçlı and Seda Şaraldı and visits to the lawyers Behiç Aşçı, Oya Aslan, Barkın Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, in the prisons of Silivri and Edirne

Date of the report: October 2024 The alternative report by the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger was recently presented at the 49th session of the 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council on Turkey. This…

Date of the report: August 2024 In a joint report, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders—a partnership between the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)—and the…

The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger has submitted an alternative report to the 48th session of the 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council on Iran.

Date of the report: May 2024 On 20 June 2024, at the OIAD General Assembly, the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger activity report for 2023/2024 has been adopted. Download the report:

Date of the report: June 2024   The President of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, Tahir Elçi, was murdered on 28 November 2015 in a shooting attack during a public lecture at the foot of the 500-year-old “four-legged” minaret. He was about to make a…

Date of the report: May 2024 Gaspard Lindon, lawyer at the Bar in Paris and delegate of the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger (OIAD), travelled to Diyarbakir on May1st alongside Françoise Cotta, member of ASF-DS and associate of the…

Date of the report: June 2024 The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation…

Date of the document: June 2024 OIAD REPORT: A LOOK BACK AT THE EMBLEMATIC TRIAL OF FORMER BAR PRESIDENT TAHIR ELÇI’S MURDERERS As we approach the final phase of the trial for the assassination of the former President of the Diyarbakir Bar…

Date of the report: May 2024 On June 14, 2023, around 300 human rights lawyers, judges, reporters, and associations worldwide attended online and in-person to the third edition of the International Fair Trial Day (IFTD) and Ebru Timtik Award. The…

Report date : April 2024 The report on Nicaragua by the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger was recently presented at the 47th session of the 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council. The report, which has…

Date of the report: March 2024 The President of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, Tahir Elçi, was murdered on 28 November 2015 in a shooting attack during a public lecture at the foot of the 500-year-old “four-legged” minaret. He was about…

Date of the report: February 2024 “Between 6 and 10 November 2023, an international delegation representing 27 law societies, bar associations, human rights groups and legal groups (…) undertook a fact-finding mission to Turkey to…

Date of the report: December 2023 On Wednesday 29 November 2023, the 8th hearing in the trial for the assassination of Bar President Tahir Elçi in Diyarbakir, Turkey, was observed by Barbara Porta (member of Torino Bar), Benedetta Perego (member of…

Date of the report: July 2023 On Wednesday 5 July 2023, the 7th hearing in the trial for the assassination of Bar President Tahir Elçi in Diyarbakir, Turkey, was observed by Franck Heurtrey (member of the Lyon Bar) and Jean-Baptiste Farcy (member of…

Bar President Adrien VERRIER was in Tunis from July 26 to 28, 2023 to meet with three lawyers currently incarcerated: Ridha BELHAJ and Ghazi CHAOUACHI (incarcerated since February 25, 2023), and Nourredine BHIRI (incarcerated since February 14, 2023…

Date of the report: May 2023 On 16 June 2023, at the General Assembly, the members of the Bureau presented the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger activity report for 2022/2023. Download the report:                                       …

Report date: June 2023 On 1 June 2023, an OIAD delegation, formed by observers Barbara Porta (member of the Torino Bar) and Adriana Vignoni (member of Brescia Bar)  attended the hearing of the case against lawyer Efkan Bolac, prosecuted for…

Report date : May 2023 “Confronting impunity: Protect Lawyers and Judicial Independence” is the title of the  VII International Caravan of Jurists Report in Colombia, in which 6 delegates from the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger…

Report date: April 2023 On 24 April 2023, an international delegation composed of representatives of the OIAD, DSF AS, Lawyers for Lawyers and the Netherlands Bar attended the hearing of the case against the former President of the Izmir Bar , Özkan…