L’ancien dirigeant du mouvement Ennahdha Samir Dilou a assuré, ce vendredi 14 janiver 2022, que les forces de l’ordre ont agressé l’ancien bâtonnier des avocats Abderrazek Kilani, lors de la manifestation des avocats.
Dilou a expliqué que ces derniers avaient organisé une marche de protestation mais ils ont été empochés d’accéder sur l’Avenue Habib Bourguiba.
#Tunisia Picture of Lawyer Nawal Al-Toumi passing out when she was being assaulted and then arrested by police, during today's demonstrations against Saied's coup. pic.twitter.com/gT0n91lbQz
— Mourad TEYEB (مــراد التـائـب) (@MouradTeyeb) January 14, 2022
Protests against #Tunisia-n President Kais Saied materialize in Downtown #Tunis on today's anniversary of the fall of ex-dictator Ben Ali in 2011. Massive police presence and news about arrests of protest organizers and a videographer are worrying to say the least #14Januaryhttps://t.co/fPLScLxjFM
Lacrymogènes, canons à eau et arrestations. Les forces de sécurité ont dispersé manu militari vendredi à Tunis des manifestations organisées contre le président en dépit d'une interdiction des rassemblements pour des raisons sanitaires https://t.co/Gf6YmPec8z
Police in #Tunisia used tear gas, water cannon and sticks to disperse protesters demonstrating against the July 25 #coup d’etat of President Kais #Saied. Some demonstrators were beaten and/or arrested. Others were prevented from reaching their protest destination in #Tunis. pic.twitter.com/H7KgNs7dFJ
Documenting arrests has always been a real issue in #Tunisia, but never more difficult now as civil society has bern rent asunder, it seems that baton has been passed to the media, but as my colleague @AlessandraBajec says police prevented media documenting https://t.co/346ru8dXbW
Picture of lawyers spending the night in front a police station trying to get protesters arrested during yesterday's demonstration in #Tunisia out of detention.
#Cameroon CRACKDOWN ON LAWYERS CONTINUES! Bar Council Treasurer Barr. #AkumMichaelNche was arrested this morning in Bamenda. They entered his house in a most brutal manner, pushed him to the floor & asked for money else they will kill one of the kids. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/8yClJsBNiC
Collected the phones of everyone in the house, removed frames and pictures from the wall, collected TV screens, gathered all wines and whiskies from the Bar, took him into his Hilux and neighbours say they drove towards Tanka. All phones even his wife have been collected. 2/3
Not all fun and games in Cameroon: While the world watches #AFCON2021, @leelajacinto reports on the assassination of prominent SDF politician and lawyer Henry Kemende in restive Anglophone region #F24https://t.co/Pa1a9qBjus
The Pregnant wife of the #Cameroon Bar Treasurer, Bar Council Member Akum Michael NCHE has been kidnapped by "#BafutAmber" after an attempt to kidnap him yesterday failed. This comes only a few days after the kidnap and release of Barrister George Sang, also of Bamenda, NWR.
Now the Pregnant wife of the #Cameroon Bar Treasurer, Bar Council Member Akum Michael NCHE has been kidnapped by "#BafutAmber" after attempt to kidnap him yesterday failed. This comes only a few days after the kidnap and release of Barrister George Sang, also of Bamenda, NWR.
Xie Yang had been arrested in 2015, during the investigations known as “709″ against hundreds of lawyers and activists. He was released four years ago
Xie Yang is a Hunan-based human rights lawyer who represented the family of Xu Chunhe, a murdered man shot by police in Heilongjiang province in May 2015. He has also represented those involved in the New Citizens Movement, the Chinese Democratic Party, Christians, and victims of land grabbing.
According to the lawyer’s wife, Chen Guiqiu, on Twitter, “the state security forces took Xie away on January 11, and since then his whereabouts have been unknown.” In another subsequent tweet, Chen asks the authorities of the city of Changsha, in the center of the country, for the immediate release of her husband.
Xie was arrested in 2015 and tried in 2017 for“subversion against the power of the State” and “disturbing order”, crimes frequently used in China against activists and dissidents. The lawyer, who after his arrest denounced torture by the authorities, finally agreed with them on a confession in which he denied it in exchange for not being imposed a criminal sanction and being allowed to continue practicing .
Human rights lawyer #XieYang was detained by some unknown Secret Police of Hunan on Jan. 11, 2022 (Beijing Time). His phone is delivered to voice assistant. His family member was threatened not to receive any interview. Xie Yang went to support #LiTiantian on Dec. 25, 2021. https://t.co/3HDyyYrHsh
Breaking: Chinese human rights lawyer Xie Yang's wife confirmed that after being taken away by national security agent on Jan. 11, XIe has lost contact with the outside world. His friends said he is under the national security agent's control. #China#HumanRightshttps://t.co/S54oNTmoGD
"…encircled day & night by interrogators who blew smoke in his face, punched and kicked him, & threatened to turn him into an “invalid” unless he confessed to political crimes"https://t.co/BfTAFduSoc
The much feared but predictable pre-@Olympics crackdown is upon us.
The thuggish assault on human rights lawyers #WangYu & her husband Bao Longjun & the detention of human rights lawyer #XieYang are only the 1st act. https://t.co/K41qe64RSZ
Violent assault on human rights lawyer #WangYu at a Chinese court in Suzhou:
"I was beaten so hard that I felt dizzy and my eyes blurred, both shoulders sharply painful. But they pressed me down and beat me from behind, I couldn't even see who they are…" @wangyulawyerhttps://t.co/4x210OIMMJ
Lesotho’s Mounted Police Service (LMPS) stands accused of detaining and torturing Napo Mafaesa, a human rights lawyer, after a client of his allegedly lied that he handed over an illegal firearm to the advocate for safekeeping.
The client, a suspect linked to an armed robbery case, was said to have made the claim while allegedly being tortured by the LMPS. Thereafter, the LMPS went to Mafaesa’s chambers where they arrested him and detained him for three days.
In a telephone interview from the Mountain Kingdom, advocate Mokoenanyane Makhobakhobe told News24 that the client had made the utterance under duress so as to avoid further torture.
“The client lied that he had given the firearm under question to his lawyer because he wanted the torture to end. Little did he know that they would turn to his lawyer to do the same or worse,” he said.
Makhobakhobe said for three days Mafaesa was tortured while the Transformation Resource Center (TRC) and Southern African Litigation Center (SALC) battled to secure his release.
“When he was released, I was there. He could hardly walk or talk. He could have died,” he said.
The Law Society of Lesotho (LSL) in a statement said they condemned “in the strongest terms, the brutalisation of suspects and detainees in the hands of law enforcement agencies, an investigative technique which is characteristic of an authoritarian rule and has no room in the modern democratic dispensation”.
The LSL said the LMPS went about its investigation the wrong way and should have interrogated the suspect in the presence of his lawyer whom they only hunted down after allegations were levelled against him.
“Notwithstanding that lawyers are not immune from investigations and prosecution for criminal offences, even if committed in their professional capacities; the mode of operation by LMPS should not be to undermine the fundamental principle of lawyer-client privilege which underlies the entire administration of justice,” the society said.
In a joint statement, TRC and SALC said investigators had “turned the LMPS into an official institution of torture”.
CHIEF Justice Sakoane Sakoane has challenged the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane to pronounce herself on what action she will take against the police officers who tortured Advocate Napo Mafaesa. pic.twitter.com/MtlU6WTtTF
— Official Transformation Resource Centre (TRC) (@Info1TRC) January 13, 2022
𝐋𝐀𝐖 𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐓𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐍𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 The Law Society of Lesotho released a press statement on Wednesday condemning the arrest, detention and torture of Advocate Napo Mafaesa by the Lesotho Mounted Police Service.https://t.co/nB6CwRfr4jpic.twitter.com/aDqdm391lE
[𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒] 𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃, 𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 A prominent lawyer, Advocate Kabelo Letuka, is in hiding fearing the police will torture him like they allegedly did last night to his colleague, Advocate Napo Mafaesa, who has been admitted to a hospital. pic.twitter.com/c6V8eIY291
IAPL Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers 