Turkey: Call for the Release of 15 Lawyers and One Journalist Arbitrarily Detained | Letter
02/08/2013
Full PDF Version Wednesday, August 2, 2013 Mr. Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey Cumhurbaskanligi 06100 Ankara, Turkey Fax: +90 312 468 5026 Email: cumhurbaskanligi@tccb.gov.tr Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey Office of the Prime Minister Basbakanlik 06573 Ankara, … [Read more...]
Thailand: Draft Amnesty Legislation | Letter
01/08/2013
Full PDF Version 1 August 2013 Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister The Secretariat of the Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister Government House Pitsanulok Road Dusit, Bangkok 10300 Thailand Fax: +66 2 280 0858 Webmaster@opm.go.th Mr. Abhisit … [Read more...]
United States: International law obligations to release of Lynne Stewart for medical treatment | Letter
24/07/2013
Full PDF Version Wednesday, July 24, 2013 Mr. Eric Holder US Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Mr. Charles E. Samuels, Jr., Director Federal Bureau of Prisons 320 First Street, … [Read more...]
Vietnam: Letter Regarding Mr. Le Quoc Quan and his upcoming trial on 9 July 2013 | Letter
01/07/2013
Full PDF Version The trial of charges widely viewed as illegitimate against Le Quoc Quan is scheduled for July 9, 2013. In response to advice that the presence of international observers may encourage the Vietnamese Government to respect their international human rights obligations, LRWC and … [Read more...]
United States: Ms. Lynne Stewart — Approval of Motion for Release on compassionate grounds | Letter
27/06/2013
Full PDF Version Mr. Charles E. Samuels, Jr., Director Federal Bureau of Prisons 320 First Street, NW Washington, DC 20534 United States of America Fax: (202) 514-6620; Email: info@bop.gov Dear Sir; Re: Ms. Lynne Stewart: Approval of Motion for Release on compassionate … [Read more...]
Bahrain: Freedom of Assembly in Bahrain: Domestic law and practice violates international law obligations | Report
14/06/2013
LRWC prepared a brief, endorsed by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights expressing concern with the continuing wrongful arrest, prosecution, conviction and sentencing of human rights advocates in Bahrain for peacefully exercising their internationally … [Read more...]
Zimbabwe: Wrongful arrest and prosecution of lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa | Letter
13/06/2013
In March human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa was arrested and detained for 8 nights after asking police for a search warrant and an inventory during a raid of her client’s premises. Charges of defeating and / or obstructing the course of justice under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) were … [Read more...]
Russia: Threats Against Lawyers Sapiyat Magomedova and Musa Suslanov | Letter
09/06/2013
Criminal defence lawyers Sapiyat Magomedova and Musa Suslanov received death threats in May 2013 in connection with their work in the North Caucasus republicof Dagestan. These text message threats were designed to discourage them from representing the families of five men killed in March 2012. The … [Read more...]
United States: Human Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Letter Regarding Release on Compassionate Grounds | Letter
28/05/2013
Full PDF Version U.S. human rights attorney Lynne Stewart, sentenced to 10 years in prison for speaking to the media on behalf of her client, is now terminally ill. When she was sentenced in 2010, the potentially curative surgery (out-of-prison) scheduled for the following week was … [Read more...]
Bahrain: Joint Appeal to the UN against Ill-Treatment and Torture of Detained Human Rights Defenders, Activists and Photojournalist in Bahrain | Joint Statement
28/05/2013
Full PDF Version (English) | Full PDF Version (Arabic) LRWC joined an Appeal by 52 NGOs to United Nations Special Rapporteurs on Torture, Human Rights Defenders and Freedom of Expression regarding arbitrary arrests, detentions and torture in Bahrain. Human rights defenders Nabeel Rajab, … [Read more...]
