Reports

United States: Human Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Letter Regarding Release on Compassionate Grounds | Letter

28/05/2013

Full PDF Version U.S. human rights attorney Lynne Stewart, sentenced to 10 years in prison for speaking to the media on behalf of her client, is now terminally ill. When she was sentenced in 2010, the potentially curative surgery (out-of-prison) scheduled for the following week was … [Read more...]

Bahrain: Joint Appeal to the UN against Ill-Treatment and Torture of Detained Human Rights Defenders, Activists and Photojournalist in Bahrain | Joint Statement

28/05/2013

Full PDF Version (English) | Full PDF Version (Arabic) LRWC joined an Appeal by 52 NGOs to United Nations Special Rapporteurs on Torture, Human Rights Defenders and Freedom of Expression regarding arbitrary arrests, detentions and torture in Bahrain. Human rights defenders Nabeel Rajab, … [Read more...]

Help us reach our funding goal in 2013

25/05/2013

Thanks to our members and donors LRWC work contributes to saving lives, securing liberty, obtaining UN recommendations, changing opinions, assisting human rights defenders and promoting understanding of human rights and the rule of law. See our 2012 Annual General Report and our regular … [Read more...]

Colombia: Protecting Access to Justice, Report of the Third International Caravana to Colombia, 21 May 2013 | Report

24/05/2013

Full PDF Version The report of the third Colombia Carvana contains the findings of the delegation of lawyers and judges who visited Colombia in August 2012 to for the purposes of: investigating risks faced by judges, lawyers and other human rights defenders in Colombia, providing support and making … [Read more...]

Cambodia: Judicial Harassment and Arbitrary Detention of Human Rights Defender Kuch Veng | Letter

23/05/2013

Full letter below | Full PDF Version | Khmer language PDF version On 19 May 2013 Mr. Kuch Veng, a land rights and forestry activist and member of the Community Peace Network, was arrested in the Krako district, without provision of reasons or an arrest warrant, and has not been released. … [Read more...]

Cambodia: Land Rights Advocate Yorm Bopha Arbitrarily Detained | Letter

16/05/2013

Full PDF Version H.E. Hun Sen Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia Fax: +855 23 36 06 66 / 855 23 88 06 24 (c/o Council of Ministers) Email:leewood_phu@nida.gov.kh; cppparty@gmail.com H.E. Sok An Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman, Council … [Read more...]

Sudan: Lawyer and Human Rights Defender Asma Ahmed Arbitrarily Detained | Letter

16/05/2013

Full PDF Version May 14, 2013 HE Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir Office of the President People’s Palace PO Box 281 Khartoum, Sudan Mohammed Bushara Dousa Ministry of Justice PO Box 302, Al Nil Avenue Khartoum, Sudan Dear Your Excellencies: Re: Detention of Asma … [Read more...]

LRWC Newsletter: April 2013 Edition

01/05/2013

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 … [Read more...]

Bahrain: IAP Executive Committee member, Ali bin Fadhel Al-Buainain | Letter

25/04/2013

PDF version (with footnotes) To: President James Hamilton, International Association of Prosecutors From: Toby Cadman, IAP Member Re: IAP Executive Committee member, Ali bin Fadhel Al-Buainain. Date: April 25, 2013 I write in relation to the above named Executive Committee member to … [Read more...]

Iran: Human Rights Lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani arbitrarily detained | Letter