January 10, 2019
Please join us at the Turkish Embassy at 12:00pm on 24 January 2019 for the Day of the Endangered Lawyer protest.
The Day of the Endangered Lawyer is the day on which we turn the spotlight on lawyers all over the world who are being harassed, silenced, pressured, threatened, persecuted, tortured. Murders and enforced disappearances as well are not out of the ordinary. The only reason for these outrages is the fact that these lawyers are doing their job, and fulfilling their professional obligations, when they are needed the most.
The 24th of January was chosen to be the annual International Day of the Endangered Lawyer because on this day in 1977 four labour rights lawyers and a coworker were murdered at their office address at Calle Atocha 55 in Madrid. This is known as the Massacre of Atocha.
The International Day of the Endangered Lawyer aims, on the one hand, to create awareness that the practice of the legal profession in many countries involves significant risks, including that of being murdered, but it aims as well at denouncing the situation in a particular country, where lawyers are victims of serious violations of their fundamental rights because they exercise their profession.
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https://eldh.eu/en/2018/11/22/day-of-the-endangered-lawyer-2019/
Updated Report: Incarceration of Turkish Lawyers | Unjust Arrests and Convictions (2016-2018)
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2019/01/10/honoring-our-brave-colleagues-on-endangered-lawyer-day/
Tagged: Arrested Lawyers, Day of the Endangered Lawyer, IDHAE, Turkey, UK
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