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
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.
THAILAND: Lawyer Anon Nampa arrested in Bangkok.
IRAN: Lawyer Soheila Hejab violently arrested as she exits court.
PAKISTAN: Saïf ul-Malook, lawyer of the Christian couple sentenced to death for blasphemy.
SRI LANKA: Arrest and arbitrary detention of prominent lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah.