Members of District Bar Association (DBA) Dera Ghazi Khan observed a one-day strike in protest over disappearance of a lawyer here Tuesd
Members of District Bar Association (DBA) Dera Ghazi Khan observed a one-day strike in protest over disappearance of a lawyer here Tuesday.
A written notice for the strike was seen displayed at the main entrance of local courts asking members of legal profession to avoid appearance before honourable courts.
Secretary DBA Dera Ghazi Khan, Syed Tayyab Kaleem Bukhari advocate said that Yafis Nadeem Hashmi advocate vanished in Blue Area Islamabad and the lawyers observed strike on the call of PBC on police failure in recovering the missing lawyer despite the fact that FIR already stood registered regarding the occurrence.
The strike by lawyers on Tuesday entered its third day. The lawyers have been protesting against the Bathinda police for registering a case against former District Bar Association president Navdeep Singh Jeeda.
On Tuesday, they protested on the road outside the SSP office. District Bar Association (DBA) president Kanwaljit Singh Kutti said, “We have given a call for a state-level protest for Wednesday and advocates will suspend work in the district.”
He said they want cancellation of a case registered against Navdeep Jeeda and action against police constable Ranjit Singh.
While addressing the protesters, lawyers alleged that without holding any probe into this incident, the police announced the verdict by registering a case against advocate Navdeep Jeeda. They said no action had been taken on the complaint of Jeeda against Ranjit Singh, who fractured his nose.
Members of Punjabi Maa Boli Satkar Sabha have announced their support to the lawyers in this incident.
The lawyers are aggrieved by lack of security at their offices, as well as the heavy workload, among others.
Court officials have told of a chaotic Monday at the courts during the first day of the strike by Legal Aid SA lawyers, with cases unheard and postponed.
A court orderly at the Randburg Magistrate’s Court, which had a total of 48 old cases and more than 20 first appearances on the roll, said none of the legal aid lawyers from the Wynberg offices reported for duty.
“The state had no other choice but to request that the matters be postponed. If this is not resolved speedily, it could spell a complete disaster,” the court official, who did not want to be named, said.
The public legal representation agency, which assists about 725,000 people each year, according to its chief executive officer Vidhu Vedalankar, confirmed there were disruptions, with Gauteng the most affected.
Spokesperson Mfanafuthi Shabangu said there were minor disruptions in the flow of cases, particularly in Benoni, Palm Ridge and Randburg Magistrate’s Court.
L’avocate espagnole Cristina Martinez a été empêchée, dimanche, pour la deuxième fois en moins d’un mois, par l’occupant marocain de se rendre dans la ville d’El Ayoun occupée, a rapporté hier l’APS, relayant des médias espagnols.
Arrivée dimanche à l’aéroport de Casablanca avant de se rendre à El Ayoun occupée, l’avocate espagnole s’est vue interdire de continuer son chemin vers la capitale sahraouie par des agents marocains sans lui fournir de motif à ce sujet, a indiqué l’agence de presse espagnole, Efe. «La police marocaine m’attendait à la porte de l’avion. Sans m’expliquer, ils m’ont informée que je ne pouvais pas me rendre dans les zones occupées du Sahara occidental», a déclaré Mme Martinez, qui a déjà été expulsée par les autorités d’occupation marocaines le 6 août dernier.
L’avocate espagnole devait assister, en tant qu’observateur international, au procès illégal convoqué par le régime marocain contre 8 militants sahraouis arrêtés le 19 juillet dernier, après les manifestations pacifiques de célébration de la victoire de l’équipe d’Algérie de football lors de la finale de la Coupe d’Afrique des nations.
Ce jour-là, la célébration avait culminé avec le meurtre d’une jeune manifestante sahraouie, Sabah Othman Omeida, et plusieurs cas de blessés graves parmi les manifestants causés par l’intervention violente des agents de la police marocaine, venus réprimer les Sahraouis. Selon des sources médiatiques locales, la jeune militante sahraouie a été tuée par un véhicule de la police marocaine qui a foncé à pleine vitesse sur la foule sortie célébrer pacifiquement la victoire de l’équipe algérienne face à la sélection sénégalaise.
Au cours de ces manifestations, des dizaines d’autres militants sahraouis ont été arrêtés arbitrairement par les forces d’occupation marocaine et aucun détail n’a été communiqué sur leur état de santé et leur lieu de détention.
Durant l’année 2019, le Maroc a expulsé plus de 30 observateurs internationaux, avocats et journalistes qui devaient se rendre au Sahara occidental occupé pour s’enquérir, notamment, de la situation des droits de l’homme et des conditions de détention des militants politiques sahraouis.
@Equipe_Media : Las autoridades de ocupación han impedido el acceso al tribunal a familiares de los acusados. Un juicio celebrado sin observadores internacionales (expulsaron ayer a la abogada Cristina Martínez). Fue aplazado para el 28/8 pic.twitter.com/Eitrspf3TY
A prominent Iranian lawyer and human rights activist, Nasrin Sotoudeh, has managed to send a letter out of Tehran’s infamous prison, Evin, where she is behind bars.
While incarcerated, Sotoudeh says in her bold letter, “I hear some news related to the women of my motherland that showers me with joy and happiness.”
In the letter, published on the Facebook account of Ms. Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, the 56-year-old winner of Sakharov Prize has cheerfully praised Iranian women’s recent moves to reject compulsory hijab and defend the right to choose their dress mode.
“Iranian women’s attempts are mainly praiseworthy for the fact that they have chosen a non-violent approach towards seeking their right to dress freely,” Sotoudeh has stressed, noting that Iranian women have been struggling for their lost rights and always repelled by “religious edicts” that are hundreds of years old.
Referring to the Islamic Revolution that led to the downfall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the imprisoned attorney has asserted, “Forty years ago, the people of Iran were led to an arduous path that women also have had a share in passing through it. [During the past four decades] Iranian women’s bodies and spirits have been targeted by control, day and night” Sotoudeh has lamented, adding, “Nevertheless, they bloomed and grew beyond expectations, and continued their struggle to end the round the clock controls over their bodies and souls.”
Sotoudeh has also praised in her letter the recent anti-compulsory hijab movement, branded as Girls of the Revolution Street.
Monsieur @EmmanuelMacron, vous rencontrez vendredi le ministre iranien des affaires étrangères. Les avocats, de nombreux Barreaux et le @CNBarreaux se mobilisent pour le sort de l’avocate #NasrinSotoudeh. Vous avez le pouvoir d’infléchir sur sa peine et sur son avenir https://t.co/Ha9W32AyFC
— lasecrétaireduBâtonnier (@SecretaireduBat) August 20, 2019
The İstanbul Governor’s Office has refused to allow an investigation into two police officers who, as bodyguards of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, reportedly beat a lawyer in İstanbul in April after complaints from the lawyer that the presidential motorcade was holding up traffic, Turkish media reports said on Tuesday.
The governor’s office claimed the police officers used proportionate force; hence, there was no need for an investigation.
Lawyer Sertuğ Sürenoğlu claimed he was beaten by bodyguards of Erdoğan after he objected to the president’s security detail holding up traffic. Sürenoğlu was on a bus trying to get home when the traffic became gridlocked due to road closures to make way for Erdoğan’s motorcade.
As the bus was stuck in traffic for a while, Sürenoğlu complained about the situation to police officers.
Some of Erdoğan’s bodyguards were reportedly in the vicinity and forced Sürenoğlu into a vehicle, where they tied his hands from behind and beat him for two hours.
Later they forced him to sign a statement saying he had insulted President Erdoğan.
After he signed the document, they handed him over the police for formal detention, after which he was put under house arrest by an İstanbul court, although he told the prosecutor what he had experienced.
The lawyer as well as the Ankara Bar Association later filed criminal complaints against Erdoğan’s bodyguards.
The action comes nearly two years after a violent incident at the Criminal Justice Center, which left the former bar leader with a broken shoulder.
Prominent Philadelphia attorney Clifford Haines has sued Sheriff Jewell Williams and sheriff’s deputies, claiming they engaged in a conspiracy to defame and discredit him following a violent altercation at the Criminal Justice Center nearly two years ago.
Haines filed the suit, Haines v. Williams, in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on Aug. 16. It is the second lawsuit he filed over the Aug. 22, 2017, incident, which left him with a broken shoulder. The 15-page complaint raises claims of conspiracy to defame, false arrest, malicious prosecution and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The first lawsuit, filed in December 2017, alleged assault and battery, false arrest and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The lawsuit filed Aug. 16 contends that Williams and others “engaged in a conspiracy to defame, discredit, and maliciously prosecute him in an attempt to create a post hoc justification for his unlawful assault and battery.” Specifically, the complaint contends that the defendants refused to investigate the incident, and made allegedly false statements that he was intoxicated on the morning of the incident.
“The conspiracy continued for at least another 13 months, as defendants continued to repeat these false and defamatory statements about plaintiff in written reports, interviews with Philadelphia Police Detectives assigned to investigate the incident, interviews with Internal Affairs investigators, and at deposition,” the complaint said.
Greenblatt, Pierce, Funt & Flores attorney Patricia Pierce filed both lawsuits on behalf of Haines.
Haines is a prominent member of Philadelphia’s legal community. The founder of Haines & Associates, he was also head of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and is a past chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, which makes him one of a select group to have headed both organizations.
