TURKEY: Judicial observation report (Trial against lawyer Efkan Bolac, 1 June 2023)

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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COLOMBIA: VII International Caravana of Jurists report

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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TURKEY: Judicial observation report (Trial against members of the Izmir Bar, 24 April 2023)

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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TURKEY: Trial observation report (Trial on the assassination of Bar President Tahir Elçi – 5th hearing, 15 June 2022)

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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AFGHANISTAN: Commemorating the Fall of Kabul

Date of the leaflet: August 2022 A retrospective of the destruction of a profession: 15 August 2021 – 15 August 2022 The precipitous fall of Kabul to the Taliban on 15 August 2021 and the re-establishment of the Taliban government put an end to 20 years of social development and rule of law building, thus […]

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STRASBOURG: Legal instrument to strengthen the protection of the profession of lawyer

Date of the report: April 2022 From the very outset, the OIAD has very attentively followed the work carried out under the aegis of the Council of Europe to elaborate an international legal instrument on the legal profession. On 8 July 2021, the Observatory was heard by the Ambassadors to the Council of Europe on […]

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ACTIVITY REPORT OIAD (2021-2022)

Date of the report: May 2022 On 20 May 2022, at the General Assembly, the members of the Bureau presented the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger activity report for 2021/22. Download the report:

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