Le juge d’instruction près du Tribunal militaire de première instance a décidé, lundi 2 août 2021, la Levée des recherches contre Seif Eddine Makhlouf, Mehdi Zagrouban, Nidhal Saoudi, Abdellatif Aloui et Mohamed Affes, et ce, jusqu’à l’achèvement des procédures judiciaires à leur encontre.
Notons que les députés Al Karama et l’avocat Mehdi Zagrouba sont impliqué dans l’affaire de l’aéroport, où ils sont intervenus pour faciliter le passage d’une citoyenne fichée S17.
The judge will issue another mandate to summon them.
— Dr. Jur. Aymen Zaghdoudi (@zaghdoudist) August 3, 2021
𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏#Tunisia The senior investigating judge of the first office of the Permanent Military Court of #Tunis, on Monday, suspended the wanted notices issued against MPs of Al Karama and lawyer Mehdi Zagrouba.https://t.co/Cb5J7WOTJQpic.twitter.com/XGIqytwHvn
#Tunisia: the senior investigating judge at the #Tunis Permanent Military Court Monday ordered suspending the wanted notices issued against Al Karama MPs Seifeddine Makhlouf, Nidhal Saoudi, Abdellatif Aloui & Mohamed Affes and lawyer Mehdi Zagrouba. https://t.co/Li90R9xDKSpic.twitter.com/Ijb0dDIgzP
These doc are in Arabic but one is saying to stop the order to bring them in front of the court. The second one is a rectification of the procedures to summon them, because the law here enshrines that lawyers are summoned based on special procedures. pic.twitter.com/ayqIVIMxH2
— Dr. Jur. Aymen Zaghdoudi (@zaghdoudist) August 3, 2021
I don't think, it's an information. They are asked to appear before the judge (military court) on August, 9th.
— Dr. Jur. Aymen Zaghdoudi (@zaghdoudist) August 3, 2021
Exactly. A lawyer cannot be summoned without informing the bar association before.
— Dr. Jur. Aymen Zaghdoudi (@zaghdoudist) August 3, 2021
In the year since making an unprecedented, taboo-breaking speech openly calling for discussion on the role of Thailand’s powerful king, human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa has spent months in jail, charged with the crime of defaming the monarchy.
He’s one of 103 people from Thailand’s youth-led anti-government protests now charged with insulting or threatening King Maha Vajiralongkorn or his immediate family, a crime punishable by up to 15 years’ imprisonment. Hundreds more face other criminal charges.
Arnon, 36, says he has no regrets and vows the prosecutions won’t crush the anti-government movement, which in recent weeks has been building again.
“I think it has been worthwhile. Now the society can move forward and people can talk about the monarchy,” Arnon told Reuters in an interview while awaiting trial. He denies any wrongdoing.
The king has traditionally been portrayed as above reproach in conservative Thai culture, and any criticism of the monarch – whom some have viewed as semi-divine – is taboo as well as illegal.
Arnon, however, says talking openly about the monarchy is necessary in the push for democratic reform and the ouster of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who first came to power in a 2014 coup and has long associated himself with loyalty to the king.
Government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri on Monday defended the criminal cases against protesters.
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Arnon, an adviser to the youth movement, faces 12 separate lese majeste cases and spent 113 days imprisoned before being released on bail in June.
Three more human rights attorneys in Iran were handed unjust prison sentences in July 2021 amid an ongoing campaignto eliminate due process for activists and dissidents by intimidating the lawyers who defend them, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.
At least four defense lawyers were imprisoned in the country on trumped-up charges as of August 2021 (Nasrin Sotoudeh, Mohammad Najafi, Soheila Hejab, and Giti Pourfazel), and at least two additional lawyers (Farzaneh Zilabi and Mohammad Hadi Erfanian-Kaseb) were prosecuted on false charges in June 2021.
Javad Alikordi, a defense attorney and law professor, was taken to Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, on July 15, 2021, to begin serving a two-year prison sentence for running a Telegram messaging app social media channel.
Any peaceful action, including appearing in public without your headscarf if you are a woman, or promoting human rights as a defense attorney can be prosecuted as a national security crime in Iran, where the state is not only trying to eliminate all forms of dissent and criticism of its policies but also imprisons the lawyers who try to defend activists.
Alikordi, a former member of the City Council in Sabzevar, Khorasan Razavi Province, was arrested by Intelligence Ministry agents in Mashhad on April 22, 2020, and held in solitary confinement for more than a month.
He was tried at Branch 4 of the Revolutionary Court in Mashhad presided by Judge Mansouri [first name unknown] at an unknown date and convicted of “creating and managing a channel on Telegram (messaging app) with the intention of overthrowing the state” (6.5 years in prison), “insulting the supreme leader” (1.5 years), and “propaganda against the state” (eight months).
Upon appeal, his 6.5-year prison sentence for “creating and managing a channel on Telegram (messaging app) with the intention of overthrowing the state” was reduced to two years in prison, the length of time he must remain behind bars according to Article 134 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code.
Branch 37 of the Appeals Court in Khorasan Razavi Province meanwhile upheld other punishments against Alikordi, including a two-year ban on teaching, a two-year ban on traveling abroad, and a two-year ban on membership in political and social groups.
Amirsalar Davoudi, another defense attorney who was imprisoned for running a Telegram channel, learned that the Tehran Revolutionary Court re-issued a sentence of 30 years in prison and 111 lashes that was initially revoked by the Supreme Court.
https://t.co/3ZIVSoF4iw Hana; Javad Alikordi is a lawyer and university professor, and a former member of the Sabzevar City Council was sentenced to prison for his activities in cyberspace.#Iran
— Hana Human Rights Organization (@KurdistanHumanR) August 2, 2021
"We call on the international legal community, especially the International Bar Association (@IBAHRI) to be the voice of #AmirsalarDavoudi and other independent lawyers in #Iran." (end)
#AmirsalarDavoudi's longest sentence (15yrs) is for “forming a group to overthrow the political system" through his Telegram channel “No Retouch” where he discussed breaches in judicial processes, the judicial harassment of lawyers and human rights abuses.https://t.co/jlS8XPvUFG
After the Supreme Court granted a retrial in the case of human rights lawyer #AmirsalarDavoudi, Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of #Tehran has reconfirmed the original sentence of 30 years imprisonment and 111 lashes. His lawyer says they will be appealing the decision #Iranhttps://t.co/U1rknp8eGb
With the voice of Mohammad Najafi, to support and show solidarity with the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people✊Mohammad Najafi is a lawyer for political prisoners and is currently in prison👏🙏✌️
To: International Community Subject: The Calamitous Situation of Human Rights in Iran under the mullahs.
Islamic regime in Iran must release Mr. Najafi from the jail. The set of allegations against Mr. Mohammad Najafi, a Lawyer and Human Rights Activist are false, as usual. … pic.twitter.com/4c2CylYALU
ساعت ٩صبح امروز دادگاه #محمد_نجفی وكيل دادگستری در شعبه ۲دادگاه انقلاب اراک برگزار میشود. اتهام جدیدش تبليغ عليه نظام به دلیلِ درخواست تحريم انتخابات و تغییر قانون اساسی و عزل رهبری است که خواسته اکثر مردم ایران بوده است.
IAPL Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers 