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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Date of the report: October 2024 The alternative report by the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger was recently presented at the 49th session of the 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council on Turkey. This report, already received by the United Nations, highlights in particular the persecution of human […]
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Date of the report: August 2024 In a joint report, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders—a partnership between the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)—and the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger (OIAD) present findings from the judicial observation of the first hearing in the […]
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Date of the report: July 2024 The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger has submitted an alternative report to the 48th session of the 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council on Iran. Since the death of Jîna Mahsa Amini in detention, the protests that swept Iran in September 2022 […]
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Date of the report: May 2024 On 20 June 2024, at the OIAD General Assembly, the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger activity report for 2023/2024 has been adopted. Download the report:
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Date of the report: June 2024 The President of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, Tahir Elçi, was murdered on 28 November 2015 in a shooting attack during a public lecture at the foot of the 500-year-old “four-legged” minaret. He was about to make a statement on the destruction that had occurred in recent months in the […]
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Date of the report: May 2024 Gaspard Lindon, lawyer at the Bar in Paris and delegate of the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger (OIAD), travelled to Diyarbakir on May1st alongside Françoise Cotta, member of ASF-DS and associate of the OIAD. Ms Burgun had been accused of being involved in conspiratorial activities within the PKK. […]
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