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Afghanistan: DAY OF THE ENDANGERED LAWYER – 24 January 2023

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24/01/23

The FBE supports all those in danger in Afghanistan.  Since the capture of Kabul by the Taliban in 2021, the situation of lawyers, judges, and prosecutors in Afghanistan has worsened. Many were left stranded when Government evacuation efforts ended. The international  legal community campaigns to persuade governments to rescue legal professionals at risk. However, most governments evacuated their own nationals and those who had been employed by the respective Government or related bodies. Most Afghan legal professionals did not fall into either category, even though they had served those Governments’ interests by upholding the rule of law in their country. Many were actively involved in the prosecution of members of the Taliban and  are in great danger. The international legal community must act now to persuade more assistance to evacuate lawyers, prosecutors, judges and legal professionals at risk and to offer safe havens in their respective countries.

The FBE endorses the report of the Coalition for the Day of the Endangered Lawyer and urges all to implement recommendations in particular:

  • The international community, in their diplomatic efforts toward the de facto authorities in Afghanistan, are urged to ensure the maintenance of a free and independent legal profession, in order to safeguard fundamental rights, including women’s rights, the independence and integrity of the administration of justice, and the rule of law.
  • The international community is urged to take all necessary measures to ensure that the lawyers at risk who remain in Afghanistan can safely leave the country. In particular:
  • To immediately implement evacuation and resettlement programmes for Afghan lawyers remaining in Afghanistan or located in neighboring countries.
  • To ensure respect for the principle of non-refoulement at all times.
  • To make humanitarian visas available to enable Afghan lawyers in need to access international protection legally and safely.
  • To ensure that all States suspend deportations and summary returns of Afghan nationals to Afghanistan or third states.
  •  To ensure that all States thoroughly investigate allegations of ill-treatment of Afghan nationals, especially in the States’ border regions and in removal centers in their territories.

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DAY OF THE ENDANGERED LAWYER – 24 January 2023

https://www.lawscot.org.uk/news-and-events/blogs-opinions/danger-to-lawyers-at-home-and-abroad-must-be-tackled-by-us-all/

https://www.nycbar.org/media-listing/media/detail/day-of-the-endangered-lawyer-afghanistan-2023

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Lawyers Under Threat: Highlighting Their Plight
International Day of the Endangered Lawyer – 24 January 2023 – Afghanistan 

https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2023/january/international-day-of-the-endangered-lawyer

https://www.uianet.org/en/actions/13th-day-endangered-lawyer-focus-afghanistan

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2023/01/aba-president-statement-re-endangered-lawyer/

https://2k86.mj.am/nl3/9MUI9jpjAKJgvmFwBU6sEA (FRANCAIS)

London: a Human Rights Solidarity and Arrested Lawyers Initiative action

Brussels (Facebook, CCBE – Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe )

Day of the Endangered Lawyer 24th January 2023 13th edition – AFGHANISTAN

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24/01/23

The 24th of January marks the annual International Day of the Endangered Lawyer. On 24 January 1977, 4 lawyers and a co-worker were murdered in Madrid. Since 2010, this date is remembered as The Day of the Endangered Lawyer with the purpose of increasing awareness about lawyers across the globe who are being harassed, silenced, pressured, threatened, persecuted and tortured because of their profession.

The 2023 edition aims to shed some light on the challenges faced by lawyers in Afghanistan.

The fall of the Taliban regime in November 2001 prompted the reconstruction, reform and modernisation of the war-torn Afghan judicial system and the legal profession. In 2008, the Afghanistan Independent Bar Association (“AIBA”) was established. The AIBA administered the licensing and regulation of lawyers, promoted excellence and equal opportunity in the legal profession, trained future lawyers, and advanced the rule of law and social justice.

When the Afghan government fell in August 2021, two decades of progress were erased and the country’s judicial system collapsed. In November 2021, the Taliban’s Ministry of Justice issued a decree depriving the AIBA of its independence and its authority to grant licences to lawyers. Taliban forces started targeting lawyers who had previously worked on “sensitive” cases (e.g., cases involving the defence of human rights, including women’s rights, and other similar matters).

According to the AIBA, 7 lawyers have been killed since the dissolution of AIBA and 146 lawyers have been arrested or investigated.

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https://www.aija.org/news/art311#:~:text=The%2024th%20of%20January%20marks,Day%20of%20the%20Endangered%20Lawyer.

https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2023/01/lawyers-and-the-legal-profession-face-extinction-in-afghanistan/

https://www.nycbar.org/media-listing/media/detail/day-of-the-endangered-lawyer-afghanistan-2023

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2397118/collapse-of-afghanistans-legal-system-is-human-rights-catastrophe-un-experts

https://www.lawsociety.ie/news/news/Stories/afghan-judges-speak

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/01/23/progressive-afghan-women-in-dangerous-limbo-while-we-wring-our-hands-uselessly/361577/

https://www.cba.org/News-Media/Press-Releases/2023/Statement-from-the-CBA-President-Steeves-Bujold-on?lang=en-ca

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https://www.camerepenali.it/cat/11783/giornata_internazionale_dellavvocato_minacciato_2023_24012023_-_focus_sull_afghanistan.html (ITALIANO)

https://www.cba.org/News-Media/Press-Releases/2023/Statement-from-the-CBA-President-Steeves-Bujold-on (FRANCAIS)

Afghanistan: International Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2023

Sem categoria 21/01/2023 1 Comment

20/01/23

The 24th of January has been designated as the annual International Day of the Endangered Lawyer in memory of the “Massacre of Atocha” occurred this day in 1977 when four lawyers and a co-worker were murdered and four others were heavily injured at their address at Calle Atocha 55 in Madrid.  

The purpose of this International Day is to draw the attention of government officials, international institutions, civil society, the media and the general public to the plight of lawyers in a particular focus country, to raise awareness about the threats the lawyers in that country face in the exercise of their profession. 

This year, the International Day of the Endangered Lawyer focuses on Afghanistan. 

The Coalition for the Day of the Endangered Lawyer has prepared a report about the justice system in Afghanistan, describing the extremely dire situation confronting Afghan lawyers today. 

The European Young Bar Associations, as part of the Coalition, strongly supports the recommendations provided in the Report addressed to the de facto authorities in Afghanistan, the international community, the European Union and its Member States, in order to improve the situation of Afghan lawyers in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world. 

In addition to the limitations on fundamental human rights and reprisals against lawyers, judges and prosecutors that should be condemned, as an association representing young lawyers, the EYBA express its concern especially for the limitations to education and access to the legal profession imposed by the Taliban’s Ministry of Justice which affect the new generations, more than others. 

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (M.L.K).

Click here to download the full report:

Final version of the Report -Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2023- 2 (1)

International Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2023

Click to access 202301-stm-sr-ijl-sr-afghanistan-day-endangered-lawyer.pdf

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/01/1132662

https://www.globalissues.org/news/2023/01/20/32861

Click to access EN_HR_20230124_PR_0123.pdf

https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/politics/2326737-afghanistan-collapse-of-legal-system-is-human-rights-catastrophe

https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/un-experts-legal-professionals-afghanistan-face-extreme-risks-need-urgent-international-support

 Afghanistan: The Afghanistan Independent Bars Association stormed by the Taliban
Afghanistan Independent Bar Association

https://www.bbc.com/persian/live/afghanistan-64329705 (DARI)

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/01/international-day-endangered-lawyer-24-january-2023 (FRANCAIS)

https://news.un.org/fr/story/2023/01/1131517

Click to access PROGRAMME-avocat-menace%CC%81-2023-1.pdf

https://latribune.avocats.be/index.php/fr/journee-de-l-avocat-en-danger-dediee-aux-avocats-afghans

https://latribune.avocats.be/fr/du-cote-des-institutions-europeennes-janvier-2023

Afghanistan : Le Barreau National d’Afghanistan pris d’assaut par les talibans

https://www.lemondedudroit.fr/institutions/83102-observatoire-international-avocats-danger-oiad-lance-campagne-soutien-plaidoyer-barreau-independant-afghanistan.html

https://www.abogacia.es/fr/actualidad/noticias/el-abogado-afgano-hossain-haydari-llega-a-espana-gracias-al-apoyo-de-la-fundacion-abogacia/ (ESPANOL)

https://www.elespanol.com/mujer/20230121/khadija-amin-periodista-refugiada-afgana-espana-prision/734926733_0.html

Afghanistan: Male judges and prosecutors left behind in ‘forgotten crisis’

Sem categoria 19/01/2023 Leave a comment

17/01/23

The Taliban’s increasingly draconian policies in Afghanistan, the return to Sharia law and attacks on women’s rights have rightly drawn the world’s attention. However, almost 18 months after the Taliban seized power, there are growing calls to ensure that Afghan men, including those working in the legal profession, are also safe from harm.

Imogen Canavan, a Legal Consultant at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, has worked closely with the IBA and the International Association of Women Judges to evacuate vulnerable Afghans since August 2021. As part of these efforts, hundreds of female judges deemed to be at risk were evacuated alongside their families and have since been resettled in Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Iceland.

While Canavan says these efforts are to be hugely commended, she’s increasingly concerned for the safety of male judges in Afghanistan who are now being forced to impose Sharia Law. ‘One of the focuses for me as a consequence of this work has been the male judges, because I feel like they’re a much bigger group,’ she says. ‘There are about 200 female judges, but there are about 2,000 male judges. What we see in terms of security risks for them is mostly kidnappings of the eldest son. They usually want the judge to present themselves to the Taliban in exchange for the son. Then often we anticipate that this would be likely to result in killing or certainly torture. There’s extortion as well.’

Safiya was an Afghan national working in the UK last August when the Taliban seized Kabul. Though she had no previous links to the legal profession, she, like Canavan, found herself fully immersed in the evacuation efforts. Safiya has watched in horror at how women have been steadily removed from nearly all areas of public life in Afghanistan, but says many male judges could be even more at risk than their female counterparts. ‘A lot of very well-known male judges were left behind,’ she says. ‘That’s the thing that upset me the most because all these men at the top of their field were getting in touch with me, but there was no evacuation mechanism for them. They’re the ones that are most in need now.’

Canavan says it was also a mistake that prosecutors weren’t deemed at risk enough to be evacuated by governments and humanitarian organisations in the wake of the Taliban takeover. ‘They are being attacked with knives and guns and their homes are being burnt down,’ she says. ‘Like legal academics, this group has not been prioritised, has been left behind and nobody’s thinking about them.’

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https://www.ibanet.org/Afghanistan-Male-judges-and-prosecutors-left-behind

https://services.nycbar.org/Members/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=ILJ012423&WebsiteKey=f71e12f3-524e-4f8c-a5f7-0d16ce7b3314&fbclid=IwAR2gncB5Mhw2d5IZbs5b6VpSJDfDGPIzG4zgIDAa-24j6jBioch4eNLE5aY

Click to access ILAC_Afghanistan_Report_2023-2.pdf

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Click to access EN_HR_20230124_PR_0123.pdf

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/01/1132662

https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2023/january/afghan-judges-to-speak-at-dublin-event

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-taliban-appear-to-be-making-kill-lists

https://news.un.org/fr/story/2023/01/1131517 (FRANCAIS)

https://www.barreaubruxelles.be/component/k2/item/1079-24-janvier-2023-conference-de-presse

Turkey: Criminal lawsuit launched against perpetrator of smear campaign against woman human rights lawyer Jiyan Tosun

Sem categoria 10/01/2023 Leave a comment

10/01/23

On 4 January 2023, a criminal lawsuit was launched against Adem Taşkaya, the co-president of Zafer Partisi (Victory Party), who had posted a tweet targeting woman human rights defender Jiyan Tosun and falsely accusing her as the perpetrator of the bomb attack in Istanbul on 13 November 2022. The woman human rights defender Jiyan Tosun filed a complaint against Adem Taşkaya and other unidentified perpetrators, seeking that they be named and prosecuted.

Jiyan Tosun is a woman human rights defender, lawyer and a member of Human Rights Association. She provides legal support to women and LGBTI+ survivors at the Legal Assistance Office against Sexual Abuse and Rape in Detention. Jiyan Tosun is the daughter of Fehmi Tosun, who was forcibly disappeared in 1995. The woman human rights defender has been seeking justice for her father and the other enforced disappearances together with Saturday Mothers/People.

On 4 January 2023, a criminal lawsuit was launched against Adem Taşkaya, who had posted a tweet targetting woman human rights defender Jiyan Tosun by falsely accusing her as a perpetrator of the bomb attack in Istanbul on 13 November 2022. He posted her photo, saying that “the bomber is a PKK lawyer, Jiyan Tosun”. Following the tweet, Jiyan Tosun and her family started receiving a high number of death threats, which ultimately led to their decision to leave their home. This prompted Jiyan Tosun to filea complaint with the public prosecutor against Adem Taşkaya and other unidentified perpetrators. Jiyan Tosun also requested to be put under a protection scheme, as she worried for her safety and security. The Kücükçekmece 20th Criminal Court of First Instance accepted the indictment against Adem Taşkaya, who is charged with offences of “insult” as per Article 125/2, and illegally disseminating personal data as per Article 136 of the Turkish Penal Code. The trial is set to begin on 30 May 2023.

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https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/criminal-lawsuit-launched-against-perpetrator-smear-campaign-against-woman-human-rights

Click to access EN_HRL_20221213_Turkey_Threats-against-lawyers-Jiyan-Tosun-and-Eren-Keskin.pdf

https://m.bianet.org/english/law/272416-far-right-politician-who-falsely-blamed-deadly-bombing-on-kurdish-lawyer-faces-jail-sentence

Turkey's Saturday Mothers, 27 years on, are still searching for justice and closure
Prominent Kurdish lawyer among recipients of prestigious Swedish award

https://rm.coe.int/cj-av-2022-15e/1680a8ffbc

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/tr/case/criminal-lawsuit-launched-against-perpetrator-smear-campaign-against-woman-human-rights (TURKCE)

https://www.dokuz8haber.net/savci-avukat-jiyan-tosunu-bombaci-olarak-lanse-eden-zafer-partili-taskaya-hakkinda-ceza-istedi

https://t24.com.tr/haber/taksim-saldirisinin-ardindan-avukat-jiyan-tosun-u-hedef-gosteren-zafer-partili-adem-taskaya-ya-hapis-istemi,1083171

İstiklal Caddesi’ndeki saldırının ardından avukat Jiyan Tosun’u hedef gösteren Adem Taşkaya hakkında iddianame hazırlandı

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/fr/case/death-threats-against-woman-human-rights-defender-and-lawyer-jiyan-tosun (FRANCAIS)

STRASBOURG : L’OIAD a assisté en tant qu’observateur à la 3ème réunion du comité d’experts pour la rédaction de la convention sur la protection de l’avocat

https://camerepenali.it/cat/11756/la_dichiarazione_della_piattaforma_per_una_magistratura_indipendente_in_turchia_sui_processi_di_massa_agli_avvocati_di_ankara.html (ITALIANO)

Peine de mort en Iran : le barreau de Paris se mobilise

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16/12/22

Samedi 17 décembre, le barreau de Paris participera au rassemblement organisé par « Ensemble contre la peine de mort », aux côtés de tous les avocats parisiens en robe, en faveur de l’arrêt des exécutions en Iran, Place de la Bastille, à 15h.

Le Barreau de Paris, l’Union Internationale des avocats, la Fédération Nationale des Unions de Jeunes Avocats, Ace-Avocats, ensemble, le Syndicat des Avocats de France et Femmes et Droit se joignent au rassemblement organisé par « Ensemble contre la peine de mort » et les collectifs « Iran Justice », « Femme Azadi », « Avocats ZZA », « Azadi4iran », «Actions for Iran», «Neda d’Iran», « Soutien à la lutte du peuple iranien », avec le soutien logistique de l’association Homa, le samedi 17 décembre à 15h, Place de la Bastille. Ils manifesteront en robe, afin de demander l’arrêt immédiat des exécutions perpétrées par le régime iranien.

En l’espèce, depuis le 8 décembre, par deux fois, des manifestants ont été exécutés en Iran à la suite de procès expéditifs et inéquitables.

Le barreau de Paris craint que le rythme des exécutions s’accélère et a appelé à se mobiliser pour que la peine de mort ne soit pas utilisée comme une arme de répression à l’encontre de celles et ceux qui demandent la fin des lois et politiques discriminatoires en Iran au travers d’une résolution. Cette résolution portée par le barreau de Paris et le Conseil National des barreaux a d’ores et déjà été signée par 17 barreaux. Le barreau de Paris insiste sur la nécessité d’une action forte et coordonnée de la société civile, des gouvernements et des organisations internationales afin de dissuader la République islamique d’exécuter des manifestants.

https://www.affiches-parisiennes.com/peine-de-mort-en-iran-le-barreau-de-paris-se-mobilise-117882.html

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/12/16/en-iran-des-executions-publiques-pour-terroriser-les-manifestants-et-mater-la-revolte_6154694_3210.html

https://epinalinfos.fr/2022/12/avocats-vosgiens-soutiennent-mobilisation-iran/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/16/european-mps-seek-to-publicise-plight-of-jailed-iranian-protesters (ENGLISH)

Click to access EN_HRL_20221213_Iran_Threats-against-Mahsa-Amini-s-family-lawyers-and-continuing-arrest-of-lawyers.pdf

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/12/irans-protests-enter-fourth-month-ruthless-judiciary-dials-executions

https://www.dw.com/en/iran-amnesty-says-26-protesters-facing-execution/a-64129979

https://www.facebook.com/events/547236133923667/?ref=newsfeed

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/stop-execution-iranian-protesters-now

https://www.dw.com/en/german-mps-speak-up-for-political-prisoners-in-iran/video-64103817

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/111408-iranian-sentenced-to-death-denied-lawyer-of-his-choice-in-appeal-process/

Afghanistan: Bolch Prize to be awarded to International Association of Women Judges

Sem categoria 29/11/2022 Leave a comment

21/11/22

The Bolch Judicial Institute has named the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) as the 2023 recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law in recognition of the organization’s remarkable efforts to evacuate, support, and resettle Afghan women judges who, because of their gender and work as judges, have faced persecution and violence since the Taliban took control of the country in late 2021.

The IAWJ will be honored during a ceremony at Duke University on March 1, 2023.

Under the leadership of New Zealand Supreme Court Justice Susan Glazebrook, president of the IAWJ and the association’s Afghan Support Committee, the IAWJ mobilized member judges from around the world to assist Afghan women judges in the days leading up to and the months following the collapse of Afghanistan’s democracy in August 2021. Recognizing the particular dangers Afghanistan’s women judges face under Taliban rule, IAWJ members have worked — and continue to work — tirelessly to secure safe passage out of the country for the judges and their families and assist them in obtaining visas and relocating to countries where they can rebuild their lives and careers.

“The IAWJ has led an extraordinary rescue operation, bringing more than 100 Afghan women judges and many of their families to safety and continuing efforts to assist those who remain,” said David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute. “The Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law recognizes both the heroism of the IAWJ’s efforts to assist Afghanistan’s women judges and the organization’s long history of supporting and advancing women judges and addressing gender inequities in judicial and justice systems around the world. And in honoring the IAWJ, we also honor the incredible courage of Afghanistan’s women judges, who broke barriers and risked personal safety to try to build a better future for their country and now call on the international community for help as they work to rebuild their lives.”

“The IAWJ has worked for decades to surmount the numerous obstacles women judges face around the world,” said Kerry Abrams, dean of Duke Law School. “From gender-based discrimination and legal structures that subjugate women to professional hierarchies that force women into limited roles, women in judicial positions face many barriers, in all corners of the world. Through mentoring, partnerships, educational opportunities, and global outreach, the IAWJ created a network of members around the world who have worked together to address common challenges, to support one another in overcoming barriers, and to strengthen the rule of law. That network also put the IAWJ in an unparalleled position to provide on-the-ground help to Afghan women judges when they suddenly needed to flee their collapsing country.”

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Bolch Prize to be awarded to International Association of Women Judges
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(ENGLISH, FRANCAIS, ESPANOL)

https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/the-courts/supreme-court/iawj-2023-recipient-of-the-bolch-prize-for-the-rule-of-law/

https://www2.uottawa.ca/faculty-law/alum-brings-expertise-afghan-women-judges-visual-storytelling-project

CCBE rights awards for Ukrainian lawyers

Sem categoria 26/11/2022 Leave a comment

25/11/22

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has decided to grant its Human Rights Award 2022 to both Ukrainian human-rights lawyer Nadia Volkova and the Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA).

The lawyers’ group praised their courage, determination, and commitment to defending human rights and the rule of law in Ukraine.

CCBE President James MacGuill SC will present the awards during a CCBE plenary session on Friday (25 November) in Brussels.

Rule of law

“With this award, the CCBE wishes to highlight the important role that the legal profession plays for Ukrainian citizens in defending their fundamental rights,” the organisation said.

“It will also demonstrate the need to preserve the integrity of the administration of justice and the rule of law, especially in times of war,” it added.

The annual award highlights the work of one or more lawyers or lawyers’ organisations that have demonstrated outstanding commitment and sacrifice in upholding fundamental values.

https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2022/november/ccbe-rights-awards-for-ukrainian-lawyers

https://www.lawscot.org.uk/news-and-events/law-society-news/ukrainian-lawyers-congratulated-on-human-rights-award/

http://r.email3.wikafi.be/mk/mr/pHio_7wAEDtMaXV4_-ihsJ4FuWLFdlG6HRndOtNPr-Wj6dukTGbzf4qMl4gjJDROj16N9njsR8QizH1Ogp9jASda5CI9WcL7BJcZ8scvxXFhXEmDOCtyHMtBv7NnYbE

https://en.unba.org.ua/

Click to access EN_HR_20221123_PR_0322.pdf

Click to access FR_HR_20221123_PR_0322.pdf

(FRANCAIS)

https://www.lextimes.fr/actualites/ccbe/le-prix-des-droits-humains-2022-decerne-nadia-volkova

https://unba.org.ua/ (UKRAINIAN)

Ukrajinská advokátka i komora získaly cenu CCBE za lidská práva 2022
(CZECH)

https://advokatnidenik.cz/

Turkey: Stigmatisation and death threats against Jiyan Tosun and her family

Sem categoria 24/11/2022 Leave a comment

23/11/22

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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your intervention in the following situation in Turkey.

Description of the situation:

The Observatory has been informed by the Human Rights Association (İnsan Hakları Derneği – İHD) about the acts of stigmatisation and death threats against Ms Jiyan Tosun, her family, and Ms Eren Keskin. Ms Tosun is a lawyer and member of İHD. She is the daughter of Mr Fehmi Tosun, who was forcibly disappeared in 1995. Jiyan Tosun works for justice, truth and reparation for her father and other victims of enforced disappearance, together with the Saturday Mothers/People. Ms Keskin is the Co-Chairperson of İHD.

On November 13, 2022, while they were sitting in a café in Küçükçekmece District, Istanbul, plainclothes police officers took Jiyan Tosun and two of her foreign clients to the Istanbul Küçükçekmece Police Station for an identity check. In the police station, Ms Tosun was informed that a bomb attack in İstiklal Street, in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, had just been perpetrated. She was questioned by the anti-terror branch police, who asked her if she had any information about the attack. Ms Tosun was released shortly after, together with her clients.

As Ms Tosun was in the police station, Mr Adem Taşkaya, a member of the Victory Party (Zafer Partisi) posted a photo of a woman, allegedly the terrorist suspect, on Twitter. Along with the photo, he published a message stating that Ms Jiyan Tosun was responsible for the attack, which killed six people and wounded 81. Even though the post was removed within three minutes, Ms Tosun and her family have been receiving offline and online threats, including death, rape and sexual violence threats, since then. On the same day, unknown individuals who identified themselves as police officers posted photos and personal information about Ms Tosun and her relatives, including minors, on a Telegram channel.

Consequently, due to her work as a lawyer in the same office as Jiyan Tosun and her position as co-chair of İHD, Eren Keskin has also been targeted and threatened as a result of the false information posted by Mr Taşkaya.

On November 14, 2022, after spending the previous night in a police station in Istanbul as a protective measure, Ms Tosun filed a criminal complaint against Mr Adem Taşkaya before the Küçükçekmece Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. Ms Tosun also requested to be put under a protection scheme.

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https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/turkey-stigmatisation-and-death-threats-against-rights-jiyan-tosun-and-her-family

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/death-threats-against-woman-human-rights-defender-and-lawyer-jiyan-tosun

https://www.fidh.org/en/issues/human-rights-defenders/turkey-death-threats-against-human-rights-defender-jiyan-tosun-and

https://turkey.postsen.com/trends/161196/Jiyan-Tosun-UN-Special-Rapporteur-on-Human-Rights-Defender-I%E2%80%99m-worried.html

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/16112022

Far-right party member targets rights lawyer, claiming she carried out İstanbul attack

https://misbar.com/en/factcheck/2022/11/17/jiyan-tosun-is-not-the-istanbul-bomber

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/eren-keskin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eren_Keskin

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/tr/case/death-threats-against-woman-human-rights-defender-and-lawyer-jiyan-tosun (TURKCE)

https://m.bianet.org/bianet/insan-haklari/270060-olum-tehditleri-alan-jiyan-tosun-a-koruma-karari

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/fr/case/death-threats-against-woman-human-rights-defender-and-lawyer-jiyan-tosun (FRANCAIS)

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eren_Keskin

Click to access EN_HRL_20221124_Turkey_Sentencing-of-lawyers-from-the-Progressive-Lawyers-Association-HD-and-the-People-s-Law-Office-HHB.pdf

Click to access EN_HRL_20221115_Turkey_Arrest-of-lawyer-Aryen-Turan.pdf

Bangladesh: Attack on lawyer, 4 people including bench assistant

Sem categoria 23/11/2022 Leave a comment

06/11/22

In connection with the attack on Advocate Manzoor Alam in the First Joint District Judge Court, four persons including the bench assistant of the court have been recalled.

Chittagong District and Sessions Judge Aziz Ahmed Bhuya withdrew them on Sunday (November 6).

He also formed a committee to investigate the incident.

According to the court and related sources, last Thursday (November 3) afternoon, Advocate Manjur Alam, a member of the Chittagong District Lawyers Association, went to the First Joint District Judge’s Court several times to see the documents of a case. Then the bench assistant Saifuddin Parvez gave several times to show the documents. The bench assistant did not allow Manjur Alam to see the case documents even after the stipulated time. Later he demanded money to show the documents, he refused to pay the money.

Later, when asked to go during Maghrib, the lawyer went at that time. Even then the bench assistant of the court did not cooperate. Later asked to go on Sunday. At one point, when two people got into an argument, some of the staff physically assaulted the lawyer.

Chittagong District Bar Association General Secretary AHM Zia Uddin told Banglanews that lawyer Manjur Alam went to the first joint district judge court last Thursday afternoon to see the documents of a case. There, the court staff, including bench assistant Parvez, behaved discourteously with the lawyer. When the lawyer Manju protested against the lawyers, both parties attacked the lawyer at one stage of the argument.

He also said that the lawyers protested in front of the court on Sunday in protest against this incident. An investigation committee has been constituted by Chittagong District and Sessions Judge to investigate the incident. Four people including the bench assistant of that court have been withdrawn.

https://bangladesh.postsen.com/local/81952/Attack-on-lawyer-4-people-including-bench-assistant.html

https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/crime-justice/news/apprentice-lawyer-stabbed-death-bogura-3161666

https://asianhrds.forum-asia.org/en/entity/f1y4lzdi8jn

Click to access EN_HRL_20221004_Bangladesh_Continuous-threats-and-harassment-against-lawyer-Shahanur-Islam.pdf

https://www.banglanews24.com/daily-chittagong/news/bd/984412.details (BENGALI)