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COLOMBIA: Lawyer Yessika Hoyos faces new threats

GUATEMALA: Hearing of lawyer Claudia Gonzalez suspended

IRAN: Arrested and interrogated on arrival at Tehran airport, lawyer Saleh Nikbakht faces imprisonment for practising law

The First Section of the Revolutionary Court has sentenced Khosrow Alikordi to one year’s imprisonment, two years’ exile, a two-year travel ban, a two-year ban on practising as a lawyer, and a two-year ban on appearing on the Internet.

COLOMBIA: Harassment, persecution and attacks against lawyer German Romero in the course of his work

Russia: Magomed Alamov, a human rights lawyer and member of Crew Against Torture, has received death threats, along with his family, from the relatives of a young woman who had benefited from the organisation’s assistance.

Iran: Repeatedly subjected to relentless harassment by the Iranian government, Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, winner of the Ludovic Trarieux prize in 2018, was arrested and severely beaten while attending the funeral of Armita Garavand, who died…

ZIMBABWE: Two lawyers arrested for obstruction of justice

SENEGAL : Between Friday 4 August and Saturday 5 August, several of Ousmane Sonko’s lawyers were arrested. These arrests are linked to the public appearance of French lawyer Juan Branco at a press conference in Dakar on 30 July, after he had…

MEXICO: Lawyer Oscar Zamudio Campos facing harassment and criminal proceedings for his professional activities.

SENEGAL: The OIAD condemns intimidation and violence against lawyers in Senegal and strongly denounces restrictions on the exercise of the profession

IRAN: The Observatory condemns the sentencing of Iranian lawyer Farzaneh Zilabi to 18 months in prison and calls for all other charges against her to be dropped.

TURKEY: Kurdish human rights lawyer Kurtulus Bastimar subjected to persecution and defamatory campaigns.

COLOMBIA: The Observatory condemns the new attacks against human rights lawyer Soraya Gutierrez Argüello, who was recently the victim of a break-in and attempted robbery at her home

THE OBSERVATORY CONDEMNS ATTEMPTED BREAK-INS AT THE HOME OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BAR OF GABON, RAYMOND OBAME

SINGAPORE: Persecutions against the lawyer Ravi Madasamy, engaged in the defence of Malaysian death row inmates.

ESWATINI: Liswati lawyer Maxwell Nkambule was the victim of an assassination attempt because of his defense of pro-democracy activists

TURKEY: The Observatory condemns the serious threats against the president of the Diyarbakir Bar and the disclosure, with impunity, of his personal and family information on social networks

Azerbaijan: Lawyer Elchin Sadigov is under preventive measure of house arrest and charged with “complicity in brive-taking”, with the risk of a 12-year prison sentence

VENEZUELA: Human rights lawyer Venus Faddoul has been publicly accused, threatened and harassed for her work