The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger will be holding its annual General Meeting on Thursday 26 June 2025 in Madrid. This event will gather its active and associate members for a day of meetings and discussions, mainly focused on defending the legal profession worldwide. The 2025 AGM will be held in a hybrid format, […]
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THE HAGUE, 4 June 2025 – The Philippine Caravan – an international fact-finding mission led by a coalition of ten legal organisations, including the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger – has presented its “Black Robes, Red Targets” report, which reveals serious human rights violations committed against legal professionals in the Philippines between 2016 and […]
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The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger was part of a major international delegation in Turkey from 26 to 30 May 2025 during a hectic week in the courts, with several criminal hearings against lawyers from the Human Rights Committee of the Istanbul Bar (ÇHD) and the President of the Istanbul Bar and his Bar […]
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The Steering Groupe of the International Fair Trial Day (IFTD), in which OIAD participates, invites you to the International Fair Trial Day (IFTD) Conference and the Ebru Timtik Award Ceremony[1] which will take place in Brussels (Université libre de Bruxelles, Solbosch campus) and online via Zoom on Thursday, 12 June 2025. This year, the spotlight is on Tunisia, where the independence of the […]
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Paris, 2 June 2025 – The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger is seriously alarmed by the situation of lawyers in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the partial occupation of the region by the armed group M23 has left the judicial system in a state of crisis. The province of North Kivu in […]
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The OIAD together with the undersigned bar associations and lawyers’ rights organisations express their deep concern over the detention of lawyer Ruken Gülağacı on 20 May 2025. On 21 May, the Criminal Peace Judgeship issued a house arrest order against Ms Gülağacı—an alarming escalation that further compounds our concern. We, the undersigned, call on the […]
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The undersigned organisations express grave concern over the escalating campaign of red-tagging, harassment, and threats targeting human rights lawyer Maria Kristina Conti in the Philippines. Atty. Maria Kristina Conti is a prominent human rights lawyer, Secretary-General of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers-National Capital Region (NUPL-NCR), and Treasurer of the Confederation of Lawyers of Asia […]
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The OIAD together with 9 other organisations express deep concern over the enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention of Sudanese lawyer Khaled Omar Al-Sadiq since 22 December 2024. His case inserts itself within an alarming pattern of persecution against legal professionals in Sudan, who continue to face arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and judicial harassment for carrying […]
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The OIAD is deeply concerned about the alarming wave of persecution, intimidation and political discrimination targeting many lawyers in Bangladesh. These practices, which seem to be part of a coordinated strategy, seriously undermine the independence of the legal profession and access to justice in the country. Unfounded criminal charges against Bangladeshi lawyers A series of extremely […]
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The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger (OIAD) together with the International legal and human rights community condemns moves to undermine the independence of lawyers and the rule of law in Turkey. The escalating attacks by Turkish authorities on the Istanbul Bar Association, its leadership, and members of the legal profession are an affront to […]
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