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
ESWATINI (EX Swaziland): L’avvocato Maxwell Nkambule di Eswatin è stato vittima di un attentato a causa della sua difesa degli attivisti pro-democrazia
BANGLADESH: l’avvocato ambientalista e difensore dei diritti umani Syeda Rizwana Hasan e il suo team sono stati molestati e minacciati
MAROCCO: l’ex presidente dell’Ordine degli avvocati di Rabat e ministro per i Diritti umani, Mohamed Ziane, incarcerato dopo un processo sommario in contumacia
IRAN: Reza Khandan, difensore dei diritti umani e marito dell’avvocata iraniana Nasrin Sotoudeh intimato a presentarsi in prigione
TURCHIA: L’Osservatorio internaziinale degli avvocati in pericolo condanna le gravi minacce contro il presidente dell’ordine degli avvocati di diyarbakir e la divulgazione nella più totale impunita’ di informazioni personali e familiari…
Mexico: Concerns about the ongoing persecution and threats against Mexican lawyer Juan Carlos Flores Solís
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 December 17th, 2022 Mr. Sadigov is a prominent lawyer at the Bar…
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
COLOMBIA: Lawyer Carlos Enrique Maldonado, victim of serious and worrying stigmatisation for defending peasant communities affected by the armed conflict
BANGLADESH: L’avvocato dei diritti umani Shahanur Islam aggredito in tribunale
VENEZUELA: Human rights lawyer Engels Wladimir Puertas victim of arbitrary detention, torture, serious threats and criminalisation of his work
Haiti: Robinson Pierre-Louis, lawyer and general secretary of the Federation of Haitian Bars, has been arrested
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
COLOMBIA: Andrea Torres Bautista, a human rights lawyer, has been victim of kidnapping, serious threats and gender-based violence, as well as the theft of sensitive information in a cyber attack
COLOMBIA: Human rights lawyer María Alejandra Garzón Mora has been subjected to serious threats, cyber-attacks, surveillance and verbal attacks.
Guatemala: l’Osservatorio denuncia la persecuzione giudiziaria subita da Claudia Paz y Paz.
Colombia: The Observatory condemns the new threats received by lawyer Yessika Hoyos Morales in the context of her professional activity before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).
Mexico: The Observatory condemns the murder of women’s rights lawyer Cecilia Monzón