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Concern about Restricted Access to Lawyers for Guantanamo Detainees
30/04/2007
Re: Concern about Restricted Access to Lawyers for Guantanamo Detainees To: USA Department of Justice From: Gail Davidson Date: 2007-04-30 LRWC is writing to express concern about submissions made by the Department of Justice in Bismullah v. Rumsfeld (06-1197), et. al before the United … [Read more...]
Guantánamo Bay
30/04/2007
Re: Guantánamo Bay To: Darlene Kavka From: To Whom it may concern Date: 2007-04-30 As a member of Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, and a member in good standing of the Law Society of British Columbia, I find the prospect of not responding to the most recent application by the United … [Read more...]
Thailand: Mrs. Angkhana Wongrachen, wife of Mr. Somchai Neelpaphaijit
11/04/2007
Re: Mrs. Angkhana Wongrachen, wife of Mr. Somchai Neelpaphaijit To: General Surayud Chulanont, Interim Prime Minister; and others From: Gail Davidson, Director, LRWC Date: 2007-04-11 LRWC is very concerned about reports of continuing threats against Mrs. Angkhana Wongrachen, wife of Mr. … [Read more...]
OPEN SOCIETY JUSTICE INITIATIVE (OSJI) – Lawyer and pro-democracy activist
06/04/2007
Information received indicates the Royal Government of Cambodia has threatened to expel the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) from the country or to revoke staff visas. OSJI is an international US-based organization that pursues law reform activities grounded in the protection of human rights. … [Read more...]
Re: Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI)
06/04/2007
Re: Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) To: Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister; and others From: C. Morris, BA, LLB, LLM, Cambodia Country Monitor, LRWC Date: 2007-04-06 We have received information concerning the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), a US-based international … [Read more...]
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
26/03/2007
Bio: Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (born 12 December 1948) is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 2005 to 2007. Since taking office in June 2005 for an eight-year term, Chief Justice Chaudhry worked overtime to tackle a backlog of cases at the Supreme Court. He also is reported … [Read more...]
MIKHAIL TREPASHKIN – Lawyer and human rights activist
25/03/2007
Mikhail Trepashkin was sentenced in May 2005 to four years’ imprisonment in an open prison colony for illegal possession of ammunition and divulging state secrets. Amnesty International has reported numerous times since his imprisonment, which appears to have been politically motivated, that Mr. … [Read more...]
Mikhail Trepashkin
25/03/2007
Re: Mikhail Trepashkin To: Yury Ivanovich Kalinin, Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments, Russian Federation; From: Russell MacKay Date: 2007-03-25 This letter is a follow up to my letter of February 12th, 2007. I wrote at that time as a member of LRWC to express my deep … [Read more...]
Iftikar Mohammed Chaudhry
20/03/2007
Re: Iftikar Mohammed Chaudhry To: General Pervez Musharraf, President From: Gail Davidson, executive director of LRWC Date: 2007-03-20 LRWC has received information that Justice Chaudhry was suspended from his office as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, on March 9, 2007 for … [Read more...]
ANGOLA: Sarah Wykes – Human rights defender
13/03/2007
On 18 February 2007, Dr. Sarah Wykes, British citizen and a senior campaigner with Global Witness, was arrested by police and detained in Cabinda, Angola. Global Witness is an organization exploring the links between environmental exploitation and human rights abuses. Dr. Wykes is a highly respected … [Read more...]
