Reports
Nepal: HARI PRASAD PHUYAL – Lawyer
21/09/2002
Hari Prsad Phuyal was arrested by police on May 22nd 2004, at around 7:00am at his home at Himalipath, Biratnagar. He was held at the District Police Office in Biratnagar for two days, and then was transferred to a Morang prison under a preventive detention order. At first his family and a lawyer … [Read more...]
Mr. Hari Prasad Phuyal, Lawyer from Biratnagar, Morang district
07/08/2002
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...]
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...]
Mexico: MARIO CÉSAR ESCOBEDO ANAYA – lawyer
31/03/2002
Mario César Escobedo Anaya, a 29-year-old defense lawyer in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico was killed in a police chase on February 5, 2002. At the time of the shooting Escobedo Anaya was the defense lawyer for Gustavo Gonzalaz Meza, one of two men accused of murdering eleven women in Ciudad Juárez. The … [Read more...]
Guatemala: OVIDIO PAZ BAL
31/03/2002
Mr. Bal is the Legal Advisor of the Solola branch of the organization Defensoria Indigena (Indigenous Defence). The threats against Mr. Balm made in January 2002,('we are going to kill you, we are going to kill you') were believed to have been made by individuals or groups seeking to hinder the work … [Read more...]
