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International Association of People’s Lawyers Fact Finding Mission in Brazil | Report
20/02/2009
December 1-4, 2008 The Philippines-based International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) sent a team of investigators on a fact-finding mission (FFM) to Rondonia State in Brazil from December 1st to 4th 2008 to verify reports of ongoing human rights violations against peasant land reform … [Read more...]
Pakistan: LRWC Denounces Latest Attempt to Crush Lawyers Movement | Press release
19/02/2009
View PDF: Pakistan: LRWC Denounces Latest Attempt to Crush Lawyers Movement LRWC denounces use of the Pakistan Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) to prevent Pakistan lawyers from continuing to advocate for a) re-instatement of all judges illegally removed from office by former president Musharaff … [Read more...]
Robert P. Lee, Lawyer
18/02/2009
Re: Robert P. Lee, Lawyer To: the Right Honorable Premier Ed Stelmach, and others From: Brian M. Samuels, executive director, LRWCR Date: 2009-02-18 We are writing to express our concern about the conduct of representatives of the Alberta Government, which appear designed to: a) … [Read more...]
Zimbabwe: WOZA and MOZA arrests
17/02/2009
Re: WOZA and MOZA arrests To: Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, and others From: Charles B. Davidson, member of LRWC Date: 2009-02-17 We write at this time to express our concerns about the arrests of a number of persons on February 10, 2009, following peaceful demonstrations outside the … [Read more...]
Video: Torture and Canada-US Relations
12/02/2009
February 12, 2009 The Coalition for the Equal Treatment of Canadians Detained Abroad organized a speakers’ lunch on "Torture and Canada-US Relations" for press and parliamentarians on Parliament Hill, 12 February 2009. LRWC Director Maureen Webb was a featured speaker along with Amnesty … [Read more...]
Dr. Shirin Ebari & Ms. Jinus Sobhai – Lawyer & Administrative Assistant
23/01/2009
Re: Dr. Shirin Ebari & Ms. Jinus Sobhai – Lawyer & Administrative Assistant To: His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, leader of the Islamic Republic, and others From: Tina Parbhakar, Iran Monitor of LRWC Date: 2009-01-23 Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) has received … [Read more...]
STANISLAV MARKELOV, Lawyer and ANASTASIA BARBUROVA – Journalist
20/01/2009
On January 19, 2009, human rights lawyer Mr. Stanislav Markelov and journalist for with the Novaya Gazeta, Ms. Anastasia Baburova were assassinated. Both parties were shot dead by a masked gunman in broad daylight around two in the afternoon on Prechistenka Street in the center of Moscow close to … [Read more...]
Assassination of Stanislav Markelov, lawyer and Anastasia Baburova, journalist
20/01/2009
Re: Assassination of Stanislav Markelov, lawyer and Anastasia Baburova, journalist To: Dmitri Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, and others From: James Tate Esq. Date: 2009-01-20 It was with great dismay and sadness that we learned of the assassination of human rights lawyer … [Read more...]
Javier Torres Cruz
22/12/2008
Re: Javier Torres Cruz To: Lic. Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo From: Prof. H. Ihmig, a nombre de la Iniciativa México, y Gail Davidson, Executive Director, LRWC Date: 2008-12-22 Hasta cuándo se instaurará un Estado de Derecho en Guerrero? Con gran alivio nos enteramos del regreso del … [Read more...]
Bangladesh: LRWC Endorses the call for a return to the rule of law in Bangladesh
15/12/2008
.doc: Bangladesh: Call for Return to Rule of Law, 15 December 2008 Bangladesh: Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) Endorses the call for a return to the rule of law in Bangladesh December 15, 2008: LRWC joins with the jurists, lawyers and legal academics from throughout Asia who assembled in … [Read more...]
