Cambodia: Judicial Harassment and Arbitrary Detention of Human Rights Defender Kuch Veng | Letter
Full PDF Version On May 19, 2013 Mr. Kuch Veng, a land rights and forestry activist and member of the Community Peace Network, was arrested in the Krako district, without reason or an arrest warrant, and has not been released. Reports indicate that Mr. Veng is being detained for questioning in relation to allegations of fraud from 2010, but LRWC believes his arrest is motivated by his peaceful and legitimate work as a human rights defender. For now no charges have been laid. LRWC … [Read More...]
Canada: Free Omar Khadr Now – Dennis Edney Q.C. | Video
On April 16, 2013, Dennis Edney, Q.C., who has defended Omar Khadr on a pro bono basis for years, spoke concerning the illegal capture and detention of Mr. Khadr by U.S. Special Forces. In 2002, the U.S. illegally detained 15-year-old Khadr in Bagram and Guantánamo Bay Prisons until he was transferred in 2012 to a Canadian maximum security facility. This talk was organized by the Vancouver Free Omar Khadr Now Committee and endorsed by the BC Civil Liberties Association, CUPW/Pacific … [Read More...]
Turkey: Petition regarding mass detention of lawyers in Turkey | Joint Statement
On 22 November 2011 46 lawyers were arrested in Turkey and charged with offences related to their participation in the defence of the leader of the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan. Their trial started on July 2012. 22 of them are still in jail to date. Soon their pretrial detention will reach 500 days. Through this petition we protest against the detention of our colleague lawyers. We, the undersigned, are all lawyers and lawyers’ organizations working in different countries all over the world. … [Read More...]
LRWC Newsletter: April 2013 Edition
Full Version (PDF) IN THIS ISSUE: LRWC Action News Bahrain: LRWC joined the initiative of Ceartas, Irish Lawyers for Human Rights asking the International Prosecutors’ Association (IPA) to investigate the complaint against IPA Executive Committee member, Dr. Ali bin Fadhel Al-Buainain, Attorney General of Bahrain. Guatemala: UFCW Canada and LRWC sent a joint letter calling on the Guatemalan government to provide protection for the members of Coordinación Campesina Nuevo Día and to … [Read More...]
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LRWC Newsletter: April 2013 Edition
Full Version (PDF) IN THIS ISSUE: LRWC Action News Bahrain: LRWC joined the initiative of Ceartas, Irish Lawyers for Human Rights asking the International Prosecutors’ Association (IPA) to investigate the complaint against IPA Executive Committee member, Dr. Ali bin Fadhel Al-Buainain, Attorney General of Bahrain. Guatemala: UFCW Canada and LRWC sent a joint letter calling on the Guatemalan government to provide protection for the members of Coordinación Campesina Nuevo Día and to … [Read More...]
Latest Press Release
Cambodia: Mam Sonando Released | Joint Press Release
PDF version Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LWRC) are pleased to note that Mam Sonando, a Cambodian broadcaster who had been detained for exercising his right … [Read More...]
More Press Releases
- 9 May 2013 | Robert A. Williams: Savage Anxieties: Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights and the Not-So-Special Case of Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group v. Canada
- Turkey: July trial ignored fundamental guarantees of the rights of the defence | Joint press release
- Turkey: 18 rights and lawyers’ groups express concern to the UN as a trial against 46 lawyers under terrorism charges is due to open on July 16 | Joint press release
