Date of the report: March 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: February 2024 “Between 6 and 10 November 2023, an international delegation representing 27 law societies, bar associations, human rights groups and legal groups (…) undertook a fact-finding mission to Turkey to interview eight lawyers who have been arrested and detained in circumstances that raise a range of human rights concerns. The […]
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Date of the report: December 2023 On Wednesday 29 November 2023, the 8th hearing in the trial for the assassination of Bar President Tahir Elçi in Diyarbakir, Turkey, was observed by Barbara Porta (member of Torino Bar), Benedetta Perego (member of Torino Bar) and Adam Zaki (member of Geneva Bar). Download the full report:
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Bar President Adrien VERRIER was in Tunis from July 26 to 28, 2023 to meet with three lawyers currently incarcerated: Ridha BELHAJ and Ghazi CHAOUACHI (incarcerated since February 25, 2023), and Nourredine BHIRI (incarcerated since February 14, 2023). This mission was also an opportunity to organize a conference on the theme of “lawyer immunity” […]
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Date of the report: July 2023 On Wednesday 5 July 2023, the 7th hearing in the trial for the assassination of Bar President Tahir Elçi in Diyarbakir, Turkey, was observed by Franck Heurtrey (member of the Lyon Bar) and Jean-Baptiste Farcy (member of the Brussels Bar). On this occasion, the members visited the lawyer Turan […]
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Date of the report: May 2023 On 16 June 2023, at the General Assembly, the members of the Bureau presented the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger activity report for 2022/2023. Download the report: […]
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Report date: June 2023 On 1 June 2023, an OIAD delegation, formed by observers Barbara Porta (member of the Torino Bar) and Adriana Vignoni (member of Brescia Bar) attended the hearing of the case against lawyer Efkan Bolac, prosecuted for insulting the President of the Republic and acquitted in this hearing. Download the report:
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Report date : May 2023 “Confronting impunity: Protect Lawyers and Judicial Independence” is the title of the VII International Caravan of Jurists Report in Colombia, in which 6 delegates from the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger participated (Edmond-Claude Frety, Roland Rodriguez, Beatriz Gil, Gonzalo Sáenz, Carles McGragh et Agueda Teja) . This report documents the […]
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Report date: April 2023 On 24 April 2023, an international delegation composed of representatives of the OIAD, DSF AS, Lawyers for Lawyers and the Netherlands Bar attended the hearing of the case against the former President of the Izmir Bar , Özkan Yücel and ten Bar Councillors (2018-2021 period). The OIAD delegation was formed by […]
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Date of the report : November 2022 On 15 June 2022, a delegation from the OIAD, the Geneva Bar Association and secretaries of the Paris Bar Conference attended the 5th hearing of the defendants in the Bar President Tahir Elçi assassination case. On 28 November 2015, Tahir Elçi was shot dead while holding a press […]
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