Re: Mr. Hari Prasad Phuyal, Lawyer from Biratnagar, Morang district To: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba From: C. A. Morris, B.A., LL.B., LL.M, member of LRWC Date: 2002-08-07 Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), a committee of Canadian lawyers, provides support internationally to … [Read more...]
Cameron Ward, Lawyer
07/08/2002
Re: Cameron Ward, Lawyer To: Vancouver Police Department From: Gail Davidson, Director of LRWC Date: 2002-08-07 LRWC has received information that Mr. Ward was arrested at approximately 10:30 a.m. on August 1st, 2002 by three Vancouver City police officers while Mr. Ward was attending a … [Read more...]
Arturo Requenses Galnares, human rights defender
24/07/2002
Re: Arturo Requenses Galnares, human rights defender To: Attorney General of the Republic, General Rafael Marcial Macedo de la Concha From: Gail Davidson Date: 2002-07-24 Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (“LRWC”) is a committee of Canadian lawyers providing support internationally to lawyers … [Read more...]
Report on the Digna Ochoa Murder Investigation
24/07/2002
Davidson, Gail for Lawyers Rights Watch Canada & The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (July 24 2002) I. MANDATE OF LAWYERS RIGHTS WATCH CANADA & THE BAR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OF ENGLAND AND WALES Inter-American Court of Human Rights Order Criticisms of the … [Read more...]
Bangladesh: RABINDRA GHOSH – Lawyer
20/07/2002
Mr. Rabindra Ghosh, a Lawyer in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh has experienced harassment, threats and physical abuse occasioned, in the opinion of Amnesty International, on his political orientation, his Hindu religious identity and his advocacy for stronger government measures to protect members … [Read more...]
CLAUDIO PANDOLFI – Lawyer
20/07/2002
On June 26, 2002, photographs were taken during disturbances in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province. These photographs were published in the Argentine press and clearly show police involvement in the events leading to the killing of Dario Santillan and Maximiliano Costeki. The photographs are also … [Read more...]
The Homicide of Digna Ochoa
24/05/2002
McAlpine, John, Q.C. The Advocate, Vol. 60 Part 3, May 2002, page 379. Digna Ochoa was a much-respected Mexican lawyer and human rights defender who was shot to death on October 19, 2001. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (the “IACHR”), in its resolution of October 25, 2001, described … [Read more...]
Newsletter VOLUME 1 No. 7, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, May 2002
01/05/2002
VOLUME 1 No. 7, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, May 2002 SINGAPORE UPDATE J.B. Jeyaretnam: Lawyer/Member of Parliament (another triumph for the written word) LRWC member / director Howard Rubin, as a joint representative of LRWC and Amnesty International, attended Jeyaretnam’s final … [Read more...]
Foreign role seen in end to Malaysian lawyer’s prosecution
19/04/2002
Wilhelmson, Michael Lawyers Weekly, Vol. 21, No. 47, April 19, 2002, page 8 On January 14, 2000, Karpal Singh, a prominent human rights lawyer, deputy chairman of the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) and former opposition Member of Parliament was arrested on a charge of sedition under … [Read more...]
