Reports – Page 5

TURKEY: Joint report of the OIAD and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders on the Saturday Mothers mission in Istanbul

Date of the report: June 2024 The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), went to Istanbul, Turkey. Together, the organisations mobilised to support the Saturday Mothers and […]

TURKEY: LEAFLET ON THE TRIAL FOR THE KILLING OF TAHIR ELÇI

Date of the document: June 2024 OIAD REPORT: A LOOK BACK AT THE EMBLEMATIC TRIAL OF FORMER BAR PRESIDENT TAHIR ELÇI’S MURDERERS As we approach the final phase of the trial for the assassination of the former President of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, Tahir Elçi, on 28 November 2015, the OIAD has prepared a graphic leaflet recapitulating […]

MEXICO: Report on International Fair Trial Day 2023

Date of the report: May 2024 On June 14, 2023, around 300 human rights lawyers, judges, reporters, and associations worldwide attended online and in-person to the third edition of the International Fair Trial Day (IFTD) and Ebru Timtik Award. The Conference had the participation as panellists of eminent lawyers, human rights defenders, victims and academics […]

NICARAGUA: OIAD’s contribution to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Nicaragua

Report date : April 2024 The report on Nicaragua by the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger was recently presented at the 47th session of the 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council. The report, which has already been received by the United Nations, particularly emphasises the lack of protection […]

TURKEY: Judicial observation report (trial of the murder of Bar President Tahir Elçi, 6 March 2024)

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 […]

TURKEY: Joint report on the ÇHD fact-finding mission

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 […]

TURKEY: Judicial observation report (trial of the murder of Bar President Tahir Elçi, 29 November 2023)

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:

TUNISIA: Release on the mission of the President of the Nice Bar Association

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” […]

TURKEY: Judicial observation report (trial of the murder of Bar President Tahir Elçi, 5 July 2023)

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 […]

ACTIVITY REPORT OIAD (2022-2023)

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: […]