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Pakistan: Duty to protect lawyer Saif Ul Malook | Letter
10/08/2021
Full .PDF letter (EN) Mr. Arif Alvi President of Pakistan President’s Secretariat Islamic Republic of Pakistan President's Secretariat, Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad, Pakistan Email: dg_coord2@president.gov.pk, dir_coord4@president.gov.pk Barrister Dr. Muhammad Farogh Naseem Minister … [Read more...]
Thailand: Immediately repeal emergency regulation that threatens online freedoms | Joint statement
03/08/2021
Full .PDF statement (EN) ประเทศไทย: ยกเลิกข้อกําหนดในสถานการณ์ฉุกเฉินที่คุกคามเสรีภาพออนไลน์โดยทันท (.PDF Thai translation) 17 international human rights organizations today denounced the Thai government’s newly announced Regulation No. 29, which empowers the authorities to censor … [Read more...]
China: How the ‘trials’ of two Canadians detained in China show the importance of the rule of law | Op-ed, Hong Kong Free Press
03/08/2021
Op-Ed published by Hong Hong Free Press on 27 March 2021 and the Taipei Times on 29 March 2021. Clive Ansley is a director of Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada. By Clive Ansley, David Kilgour, Peter Lamont “Chinese judges are classified as civil servants in China’s Civil … [Read more...]
Hong Kong: Prosecution of Tiananmen Vigil Organizer Chow Hang-tung | Joint Open Letter
21/07/2021
Full PDF letter (EN) 21 July 2021 Ms. Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah Secretary for Justice Department of Justice Central, Hong Kong Re: Prosecution of Tiananmen Vigil Organizer Chow Hang-tung Dear Secretary Cheng, We, a group of 72 international non-governmental organizations and … [Read more...]
Turkey: Concerns about access to the legal profession and disbarments | Joint Statement
21/07/2021
Full pdf statement (EN) Concerns about access to the legal profession and increasing disbarments of lawyers in Turkey 19 July 2021 We, the undersigned organizations, have long been deeply concerned about the increasingly challenging and hostile environment in which lawyers in Turkey … [Read more...]
Canada: Alleged influence by judge on U of T hiring process | Update
16/07/2021
LRWC welcomes news that the University of Toronto (U of T) Faculty of Law announced in June 2021 that it has reopened a competition to hire a director of its International Human Rights Program (IHRP) after months of controversy over allegations of improper external pressure and interference in the … [Read more...]
China: The Persecution List / 中國人權律師受迫害名單 | Video
15/07/2021
This 13:17-minute video was shown at the 5th China Human Rights Lawyers Day conference held 7 July 2021 (2021.7.09), the 6th anniversary of the “709 Crackdown” against human rights lawyers in China in 2015. Listing the names of lawyers arbitrarily detained, tortured, disappeared, disbarred or died … [Read more...]
Saudi Arabia: Samar Badawi released after three years of arbitrary detention | Update
14/07/2021
LRWC welcomes news on 27 June 2021 that women’s rights defender Samar Badawi has been released from prison in Saudi Arabia after being arbitrarily detained for nearly three years. She was released following the expiry of her sentence. Since 2016, LRWC has conducted advocacy for her release since … [Read more...]
The 5th China Human Rights Lawyers Day 第五屆中國人權律師節 | Online conference video
09/07/2021
See the Conference Programme (pdf). Speakers and organizers are listed below. The conference starts at 13:20 in the video. View the 13-minute video, "The Persecution List" The 5th China Human Rights Lawyers Day conference was held on 7 July 2021 (2021.7.09). On the 6th anniversary of the … [Read more...]
Algeria: Lawyers targeted in escalation of criminalization of fundamental freedoms | Joint statement
09/07/2021
Joint statement full PDF (EN) Full Statement (Arabic) بيان-حول-وضع-المحامين-في-الجزائر Joint statement by Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LADDH), Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Institute for the Rule of Law of the International Association of Lawyers … [Read more...]
