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November 28, 2017
Chaos erupted at Brooklyn Criminal Court Tuesday morning after agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement snatched a defendant in the hallway, prompting a walkout by public defenders and accusations from court officers that Legal Aid attorneys had physically attacked them.
Genaro Rojas Hernandez, thirty, was in court to face charges of violating a restraining order. Just after 11 a.m., after a judge asked him and his court-appointed attorney to step into the hallway with a Spanish interpreter, Hernandez was arrested by ICE agents, according to his lawyer, Rebecca Kavanagh. After the arrest, attorneys with the Legal Aid Society stormed out of the courthouse on Schermerhorn Street and held a noisy picket line outside the building, calling on immigration officials to stay out of the courthouse.
The arrest makes Hernandez the fortieth individual taken into custody by immigration enforcement agents inside a New York City courthouse, according to official statistics maintained by the state Office of Court Administration, which operates the courts. That estimate is conservative: The Immigrant Defense Project, an immigrant rights and legal assistance group, keeps its own tally that includes arrests made just outside courthouses. This count puts the number at seventy, with Hernandez the first arrest since two weeks ago when the Voice coveredallegations that court officers were unfairly aiding ICE agents.
Immigration arrests in courthouses have skyrocketed since the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January. ICE’s internal policies tightly regulate agent behavior in certain locations designated as “sensitive,” such as schools and hospitals, but the agency has so far refused to place courthouses into this category. OCA guidelines permit immigration enforcement agents to conduct operations in courthouses’ public areas so long as they identify themselves upon entry and stay out of courtrooms.
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https://nypost.com/2017/11/28/ice-agents-pounced-on-immigrant-in-brooklyn-courthouse-attorney/
November 28, 2017
Six people arrested over the murder of lawyer Omar Faruq Bappi in Chittagong have confessed during preliminary questioning to their direct involvement in strangling the man to death, police have claimed.
One of the arrestees is Bappi’s so-called wife Rasheda Begum, Additional Superintendent of Police Md Moin Uddin of the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) told a press briefing at PBI headquarters on Monday evening.
He said Rasheda had hired four men through her friend Humayun Rashid with the plan to force Bappi pay Tk10 lakh as den mohor instead of the Tk2 lakh agreed in the Kabinnama (marriage contract).
In Islam, a den mohor or mahr is a mandatory payment, in the form of money or possessions paid or promised to pay by the groom, or by groom’s father, to the bride at the time of marriage, which legally becomes her property.
Moin Uddin said Rasheda and the five others met Bappi on Friday night and tried to get his signature on a blank paper in an attempt to create a legal document to get the money, but instead they killed him.
Apart from Rasheda, 27, the five other arrestees are Humayun, 28, Al Amin, 28, Md Parvez alias Ali, 24, Akbar Hossain alias Rubel, 23, and Jakir Hossain alias Molla Jakir, 35.
Police recovered Bappy’s body from a flat in a building on KB Aman Ali Road under Chawkbazar police station in the port city on Saturday morning. A case over the murder was also started later.
The hands and legs of the lawyer were tied with rope while his genitals were severed, UNB said in a report.
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http://www.thedailystar.net/city/wife-3-others-remanded-four-days-1498003
Why does MP Tulip Siddiq not want to speak out on Bangladesh?
le 28 novembre, 2017
Les avocats du barreau de Pau ont voté mardi à l’unanimité une grève générale et illimitée à partir de minuit car ils craignent la disparition de la cour d’appel de la ville dans le cadre d’une réforme de la carte judiciaire, a-t-on appris auprès du bâtonnier.
«Nous avons voté à l’unanimité une grève totale et illimitée de toutes les audiences à partir de mardi minuit», a indiqué à l’AFP Me Antoine Paulian. «Il n’y aura aucune permanence, ni garde-à-vue, ni défense pénale», a-t-il précisé.
Cette grève s’appuie sur un document circulant sur internet et intitulé «Projet discussion confidentielle» où une carte géographique fait état de la disparition de la cour d’appel de Pau, selon Me Paulian. «Je ne sais pas quelle est la véracité de cette information qui aurait fuité du ministère de la Justice. Quoi qu’il en soit, elle circule sur internet et nous craignons fortement la disparition ou l’amputation de certaines compétences de notre cour d’appel», a-t-il ajouté.
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http://www.sudouest.fr/2017/11/29/les-avocats-en-greve-totale-3989204-4018.php
https://fr.reuters.com/article/topNews/idFRKBN1DT16S-OFRTP
https://fr.news.yahoo.com/france-gr%C3%A8ve-des-avocats-pau-contre-la-future-100328657.html
November 29, 2017
The family of an LGBTI activist hacked to death in Bangladesh, the sister of a young man gunned down by Jamaican police, and 11 human rights defenders in Turkey are among those who will be receiving letters of support from Amnesty International supporters this December, as the organization launches its fifteenth global letter writing campaign, Write for Rights.
Every December, Amnesty International supporters across the globe write millions of letters and take actions for people whose human rights are under attack, in what has become the world’s biggest human rights campaign. Last year at least 4.6 million actions were taken.
“For 15 years Write for Rights has given people hope in their darkest moments. Imagine being ill in jail and receiving thousands of letters of support and solidarity; or finding out that people all over the world are behind you in your quest for justice for a murdered relative. Writing letters really can change lives,” said Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.
“All over the world human rights defenders are under attack, treated like criminals simply for expressing themselves online or protecting the environment, and it’s more important than ever that we show them they’re not alone.
“Write for Rights sends a powerful message to the authorities that we are watching them. Though they may be able to harass, censor or jail individuals, they cannot silence the millions of people around the world who stand in solidarity with them.”
This year, for the first time, those receiving letters include two Amnesty International figures, who are on trial on baseless ‘terrorism’ related charges in Turkey on account of their human rights work. The chair of Amnesty Turkey, Taner Kılıç, was arrested on 6 June 2017 and remains in jail. Amnesty Turkey’s Director İdil Eser, and one of its founding members, Özlem Dalkıran, were among 10 human rights defenders detained while attending a human rights workshop on 5 July. They were released in October after almost four months in jail but are still facing charges.
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The CCBE President wrote a letter of concern to President Erdogan
Click to access EN_HRL_20171116_Turkey_Concerns-regarding-the-situation-of-lawyers-inTurkey.pdf
November 28, 2017
Several months after her bail status was officially lifted, top Chinese rights attorney Wang Yu and her family remain under tight restriction, unable to seek employment and banned from traveling overseas, RFA has learned.
Wang, one of the first and most prominent of hundreds of human rights lawyers and associates swept up by Chinese authorities in a crackdown that started in July 2015, was “released” on bail alongside her husband and colleague Bao Longjun after being held for more than a year on subversion charges.
But the family have been held under tight surveillance at an apartment chosen by state security police, cut off from friends and family, and the couple’s son Bao Zhuoxuan, has developed depression after being prevented from going overseas to study, as previously planned.
According to rights activist and family friend Ye Jingchun, Wang still holds a valid license to practise law.
“Normally, if she wanted to practise general law, then she could probably transfer to a different law firm and start working normally again, but Wang’s case is somewhat different,” Ye said.
“All of the firms she has contacted have said it would be ‘difficult’ for them to hire her, because the judicial authorities have already been in touch to warn them off hiring Wang Yu,” she said.
Ye said Wang hasn’t worked in two years, while Bao has also been stalled in his progress through the “articles” stage of his professional training.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Yu_(lawyer)
http://www.ludovictrarieux.org/uk-page3.callplt2016.htm
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3308398
http://www.jeromecohen.net/jerrys-blog/the-peoples-republic-of-the-disappeared
November 28, 2017
Tanzania’s Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday visited fiery opposition chief whip Tundu Lissu who is admitted at Nairobi Hospital.
Mr Lissu was shot on September 7 in Dodoma by unknown gunmen.
The Vice President made the stopover after representing her boss, President John Magufuli, during the swearing-in ceremony of President Uhuru Kenyatta.
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Ms Hassan, who was escorted to the hospital under tight security, spent 15 minutes in the ward with the Singida East MP.
Members of the press were not allowed to join the VP’s convoy, which included the Presidential Director of Communication, Grayson Msigwa.
Speaking to the Nation after her visit, Mr Lissu lauded the gesture, calling it a sign of goodwill.
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https://www.ft.com/content/80ae9260-cac5-11e7-ab18-7a9fb7d6163e