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IRAN: Tribute to Maryam Arvin, lawyer, who died in February 2023 after release from prison 22 August 2023   Maryam Arvin, an Iranian lawyer and fervent defender of the rights of women who were victims of discrimination, died two months after…

RUSSIA: The Observatory strongly condemns the violent attacks against lawyers in the Russian Federation and demands an impartial investigation

IRAN: The Observatory condemns the sentencing of Iranian lawyer Farzaneh Zilabi to 18 months in prison and calls for all other charges against her to be dropped.

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

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

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

BANGLADESH: Human rights lawyer Shahanur Islam assaulted in court.

A retrospective of the destruction of a profession: 15 August 2021 – 15 August 2022

Iran: The iranian lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah has been arrested and sent to prison to serve a sentence that was handed down more than ten years ago

China: The Observatory calls on the Chinese authorities to ensure the full and unconditional release of lawyer Yu Wensheng

CHINA: The Observatory denounces the disappearance of the lawyer Tang Jitian, his arbitrary detention incommunicado in a secret location, the silence of the Chinese authorities and the censorship imposed on this arbitrary detention by the Chinese…

Afghan lawyer Latifa Sharifi, a member of the Hawca association, whose main aim is to protect women’s rights, has already received several open death threats in the past. On 15 August, she tried to leave Afghanistan but was turned away at…

Philippines: Human rights lawyer and activist Czarina Musni openly threatened, persecuted and harassed

Philippines : Assassination of lawyer Eric Jay Magcamit

China: Risk of enforced disappearance of lawyer Chang Weiping

RUSSIA: Lawyer Mansur Gilmanov assaulted and arbitrarily detained.

RUSSIA: Lawyer Mikhail Benyash sentenced for a publication on social networks.

HONG KONG : Arrest of US lawyer John Clancey

PAKISTAN: Lawyer Muhib Azad Laghari missing.