Thailand: Draft Amnesty Legislation | Letter
01/08/2013
Full PDF Version 1 August 2013 Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister The Secretariat of the Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister Government House Pitsanulok Road Dusit, Bangkok 10300 Thailand Fax: +66 2 280 0858 Webmaster@opm.go.th Mr. Abhisit … [Read more...]
United States: International law obligations to release of Lynne Stewart for medical treatment | Letter
24/07/2013
Full PDF Version Wednesday, July 24, 2013 Mr. Eric Holder US Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Mr. Charles E. Samuels, Jr., Director Federal Bureau of Prisons 320 First Street, … [Read more...]
Cambodia: KUCH Veng, human rights defender | Letter
22/07/2013
PDF version with addresses, copy list | Letter of 23 May 2013 | Excerpt of 23 May 2013 letter in Khmer H.E. Hun Sen, Prime Minister H.E. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman, Council for Legal and Judicial Reform H.E. Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior H.E. Ang … [Read more...]
Vietnam: Letter Regarding Mr. Le Quoc Quan and his upcoming trial on 9 July 2013 | Letter
01/07/2013
Full PDF Version The trial of charges widely viewed as illegitimate against Le Quoc Quan is scheduled for July 9, 2013. In response to advice that the presence of international observers may encourage the Vietnamese Government to respect their international human rights obligations, LRWC and … [Read more...]
United States: Ms. Lynne Stewart — Approval of Motion for Release on compassionate grounds | Letter
27/06/2013
Full PDF Version Mr. Charles E. Samuels, Jr., Director Federal Bureau of Prisons 320 First Street, NW Washington, DC 20534 United States of America Fax: (202) 514-6620; Email: info@bop.gov Dear Sir; Re: Ms. Lynne Stewart: Approval of Motion for Release on compassionate … [Read more...]
Bahrain: Freedom of Assembly in Bahrain: Domestic law and practice violates international law obligations | Report
14/06/2013
LRWC prepared a brief, endorsed by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights expressing concern with the continuing wrongful arrest, prosecution, conviction and sentencing of human rights advocates in Bahrain for peacefully exercising their internationally … [Read more...]
Zimbabwe: Wrongful arrest and prosecution of lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa | Letter
13/06/2013
In March human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa was arrested and detained for 8 nights after asking police for a search warrant and an inventory during a raid of her client’s premises. Charges of defeating and / or obstructing the course of justice under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) were … [Read more...]
Vietnam: Joint Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Viet Nam | Joint Report
13/06/2013
Lawyers for Lawyers, the Law Society of England and Wales and LRWC filed a report for the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam. The use of arbitrary arrests, malicious prosecutions, imprisonment and disbarment to silence human rights lawyers, is the focus of this joint report. Cited as examples of … [Read more...]
Russia: Threats Against Lawyers Sapiyat Magomedova and Musa Suslanov | Letter
09/06/2013
Criminal defence lawyers Sapiyat Magomedova and Musa Suslanov received death threats in May 2013 in connection with their work in the North Caucasus republicof Dagestan. These text message threats were designed to discourage them from representing the families of five men killed in March 2012. The … [Read more...]
Canada: Indigenous Law as a Solution to Resource Conflict in Treaty 8 | Video
04/06/2013
In this 4-part series, Caleb Behn examines conflict and environmental degradation associated with natural gas extraction in Treaty 8 in northeastern BC which sits atop the second largest hydrocarbon deposit in the world. Mr. Behn discusses the ramifications of a number of threatening factors: a … [Read more...]
