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TURKEY: OIAD attends hearing of colleague Özum Burgun in Diyarbakir in may 2024

Gaspard Lindon, lawyer at the Bar in Paris and delegate of the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger (OIAD), travelled

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PHILIPPINES: Mobilisation for International Fair Trial Day in Manila: NUPL wins Ebru Timtik prize

Impunity for attacks on lawyers, prosecutors and judges, as well as smear campaigns against legal and human rights professionals in

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PHILIPPINES: “Caravana Filipina” international fact-finding mission

An international “Caravana Filipina” monitoring mission took place from 4 to 14 June 2024, involving 12 international delegations in the

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Turkey: First hearing in latest trial against Saturday Mothers/People

“A joint report by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders—a partnership between the International Federation for Human

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TURKEY: International mobilisation over the lack of justice in Tahir ELCI’s killing case

As we approach the final phase of the trial for the assassination of the former President of the Diyarbakir Bar

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PHILIPPINES: International Fair Trial Day event in Manila

On 14 June, the International Fair Trial Day will take place in Manila, Philippines, where legal experts from around the

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MEXICO: eighteen international organizations, including the OIAD, released a report of the 2023 International Fair Trial Day and of the Ebru Timtik Award

On June 14, 2023, around 300 human rights lawyers, judges, reporters, and associations worldwide attended online and in-person to the

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TUNISIA: Joint resolution on the arbitrary detention of Sonia Dahmani

Having taken note of the violent arrest of our colleague, Sonia Dahmani, lawyer at the Tunisian Bar, inside the Bar

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Tunisia: OIAD statement in support of Tunisian lawyers

The OIAD strongly condemns the threats to which some Tunisian lawyers are being subjected by the public authorities and expresses

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Interview with Reinaldo Villalba on the “historic” ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the “CAJAR v. Colombia” case

On 18 March 2024, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a “historic” ruling in the “Case of the members

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