Report date: November 2025 Description: No Defence: The Status of Lawyers and the Bar Associations in Iran, drafted by the Centre for Supporters of Human Rights (CSHR) and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), provides a thorough analysis of the legal, institutional, and security challenges faced by lawyers in Iran. It documents the […]
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The alternative report by the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger was recently presented at the 51st session of the 4th cycle of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review on Rwanda. This report exposes the systematic repression carried out by Paul Kagame’s authoritarian regime in Rwanda, marked by an extreme concentration of executive power […]
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Trial observation of: Necat Çiçek Date of mission: 8–10 September 2025 Date of the report: September 2025 Description: The OIAD, represented by its delegate Benedetta Perego (Turin), attended the trial of Necat Çiçek, regional director of the Lawyers for Freedom Association (ÖHD), in Diyarbakir on Tuesday 9 September 2025. The lawyer’s home had been searched, […]
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Trial observation of: Sonia Dahmani Date of mission: 29 June – 1 July 2025 Date of the report: July 2025 Description: The OIAD, represented by its delegates Noémie Saidi-Cottier (Paris) and Alessandro Magoni (Brescia), attended the trial of Tunisian lawyer Sonia Dahmani on Monday 30 June 2025. She is currently being held in the women’s […]
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Trial observation of: Istanbul Bar President and Council of the Bar Association (Criminal trial) Date of mission: 26 – 30 May 2025 Date of the report: June 2025 Description: The OIAD, represented by its delegates Antonio Fraticelli (Bologna), Franck Heurtrey (Lyon) and Charles Ohlgusser (Paris), attended the opening of the new trial of Selçuk Kozağaçlı, […]
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Judicial observation mission – trial of ÖHD lawyers Trial observation of: ÖHD lawyers Date of hearing: 17 – 18 April 2025 Date of the report: May 2025 Description: Antonio Fraticelli represented the OIAD during a judicial observation mission from 14 to 18 April 2025, following the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Istanbul Bar Association on […]
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The alternative report of the International Observatory of Lawyers in Danger was recently submitted to the 50th session of the 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council on Belarus. This report denounces the systematic repression exercised by Alexander Lukashenko’s authoritarian regime, particularly against lawyers who defend human rights, in a […]
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Date of the hearing : 21 March 2025 Date of the report : March 2025 Lawyers Barbara Porta (Turin), Valeria Cominotti (Brescia) and Ketty-Anne Tamburini (Lyon) travelled to Istanbul as representatives of the OIAD to observe the hearing of the trial of the Istanbul Bar President and his Council, following the arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, […]
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PHILIPPINES: Report on International Fair Trial Day 2024 in the Philippines Date of the event: 14 June, 2024 Report date: March, 2025 Description: On 14 June 2024, around 300 legal professionals, bar association representatives, academics, criminal justice experts, human rights advocates and journalists from around the world gathered online and in person in Manila, […]
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Trial observation of: the President of the Istanbul Bar and members of the Bar Council Date of hearing: 4 March, 2025 Report date: March, 2025 Description: On 19 December 2024, two Turkish journalists were killed in an attack in Syria. Following this event, several journalists’ and trade union organisations called for an effective investigation into […]
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