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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Trial observation of: Seda Şaraldı Date of hearing: 20 February, 2025 Reports date: March, 2025 Description: In February 2025, Barbara Porta, a lawyer at the Torino Bar, and Antonio Fraticelli, a lawyer at the Bologna Bar, travelled to Istanbul as representatives of the IADO to observe the trial hearing of the lawyer Seda Şaraldı, accused […]
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Date of the report: January 2025 In December 2024, Ms Helin Köse, Secrétaire de la Conférence des avocats du Barreau de Paris, travelled to Istanbul representing the OIAD to observe the trial hearing of lawyer Betül Vangölü Kozağaçlı, accused of belonging to the DHKP-C group for having defended its members in the past in other trials. […]
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Date of the report : November 2024 Barbara Porta (lawyer at the Turin Bar), Élise Arfi (lawyer at the Paris Bar) and Antonio Fraticelli (lawyer at the Bologna Bar) travelled to Turkey from 1 to 3 October 2024, to observe the hearings of Turkish lawyers Betül Vangölü Kozagaçlı and Seda Şaraldı. Mr Fraticelli also represented […]
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Report date : October 2024 The International Caravana of Jurists was created in response to the call from lawyers in Colombia who were at risk. Through the campaign ‘Without lawyers, there is no justice,’ they managed to gather legal professionals from around the world. Sixteen years later, the Caravana still plays a key role in monitoring the […]
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