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TURKEY: Kurdish human rights lawyer Kurtulus Bastimar subjected to persecution and defamatory campaigns.

COLOMBIA: The Observatory condemns the new attacks against human rights lawyer Soraya Gutierrez Argüello, who was recently the victim of a break-in and attempted robbery at her home

COLOMBIA: Adil Meléndez Márquez, human rights lawyer facing threats.

TURKEY: The Observatory strongly denounces the arrest of 25 male and female lawyers and the searches of their personal and professional homes as well as the office of the lawyers’ association ÖHD.

HAITI: Assassination of lawyer André Charleus

THE OBSERVATORY CONDEMNS ATTEMPTED BREAK-INS AT THE HOME OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BAR OF GABON, RAYMOND OBAME

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: The Observatory demands the immediate release of the Honorary President of the North Kivu Bar Association, Joseph Sanane Chiko, arbitrarily detained in Goma and recently transferred to Kinshasa

SINGAPORE: Persecutions against the lawyer Ravi Madasamy, engaged in the defence of Malaysian death row inmates.

IRAN: Iranian lawyer Mohammad Najafi imprisoned on false charges and banned from medical care

ESWATINI: Liswati lawyer Maxwell Nkambule was the victim of an assassination attempt because of his defense of pro-democracy activists

BANGLADESH: Environmental lawyer and human rights defender Syeda Rizwana Hasan and her team have been harassed and threatened

MOROCCO: The former president of the Rabat Bar Association and Moroccan Minister of Human Rights, Mohamed Ziane, imprisoned after a summary trial in absentia

IRAN: Reza Khandan, human rights defender and husband of Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh summoned to prison

Mexico: Three break-ins in less than 15 days at the home of environmental lawyer Juan Carlos Flores Solís

TURKEY: The Observatory condemns the serious threats against the president of the Diyarbakir Bar and the disclosure, with impunity, of his personal and family information on social networks

Azerbaijan: Lawyer Elchin Sadigov is under preventive measure of house arrest and charged with “complicity in brive-taking”, with the risk of a 12-year prison sentence

VENEZUELA: Human rights lawyer Venus Faddoul has been publicly accused, threatened and harassed for her work

VENEZUELA: Lawyer Jecson Ricardo Cariel Garcia arbitrarily detained since August 5th, 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 Barrister Tahir Elçi assassination case. On 28…

COLOMBIA: Lawyer Carlos Enrique Maldonado, victim of serious and worrying stigmatisation for defending peasant communities affected by the armed conflict