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It took Bridget Murphy two years to re-acclimatise to the wet and windy hills of the West of Ireland when she arrived "home for a visit" from South Africa in 1998. "I was going around the place in heavy fur-lined coats all the time. The locals must have been gob-smacked at seeing a woman in her 20s rambling ...

Wang Quanzhang took on sensitive cases of complaints of police torture and defended practitioners of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, according to the Japan Times. He was one of more than 200 Chinese human rights lawyers and activists who were detained or questioned in the summer of ...

Two human rights lawyers were arrested in 2015 while attempting to meet European Union delegates before an annual EU-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue. Another four activities were arrested in July 2017 amid a general crackdown on freedom of expression. Created in 2013, the Brotherhood for ...

Li Wenzu (L), the wife of detained human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, walks with supporter Lin Ermin (R), the wife of rights activist Zhai Yanmin, who was ... For several days beginning on July 9, 2015, more than 200 Chinese human rights lawyers and activists were detained or questioned in the largest ...

Human rights lawyer and co-founder of the pro-human rights network Brotherhood for Democracy Nguyen Van Dai and his assistant Le Thu Ha have been detained without trial since December 2015. Dai's lawyer Doan Thai Duyen Hai told news agency DPA as he left the tightly guarded Hanoi courtroom ...

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., King's children will honor two pathbreaking human rights lawyers—Bryan Stevenson and Benjamin Ferencz—at a remembrance ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. King's family will lay a wreath on the crypts of King and his ...

GENEVA (REUTERS) - United Nations experts called on China on Friday (March 23) to provide medical care to Jiang Tianyong, a prominent human rights lawyer jailed for inciting "subversion", amid reports of his deteriorating health. In a rare joint statement on China, six independent human rights experts ...

Human rights lawyer Philip Dykes was recently elected chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association. He studied English language and literature at Lincoln College, Oxford, but decided to become a barrister in 1975, his last year at university.

Iranian human rights lawyer Mohammad Najafi is facing eight charges for daring to speak up about a client he believes was killed in custody. Security Agents Create “Climate of Fear” Around Local Prosecutor's Office. Mohammad Najafi, a human rights lawyer who is facing years in prison in Iran for arguing ...

A woman who was sentenced to prison in Iran for removing her headscarf in public is being used as an example to dissuade others from repeating the peaceful protest against the compulsory hijab, according to prominent human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh. “What Narges did was appear in public ...

China (PRC) The sudden death of a prominent Chinese Christian lawyer leaves religious freedom advocates grieving as well as a little suspicious of foul play on the part of China's government. Chinese doctors declared 49-year-old Li Baiguang dead on February 25 despite a previous record of clean ...

JIANGSU, China (BP) -- Religious freedom advocates are calling for an investigation into the mysterious death of noted Christian human rights attorney Li Baiguang, who died Feb. ... "He has been a bold and compassionate human rights lawyer, always ready in defense of the persecuted and vulnerable.

After one of the most controversial trials in Saskatchewan's recent history, a committee of human rights lawyers in B.C. is calling for an appeal and inquiry. Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada has written to Saskatchewan's Premier Scott Moe and Attorney General Don Morgan regarding what they've called ...

I'm a human rights lawyer who travelled to Erdogan's Turkey to see his political opponent tried in court. This is what it's really like. Allegations against one man include that he founded a terrorist organisation, the PKK, a group which fought for years for Kurdish autonomy within Turkey. Yet the group was ...

The destruction of the rule of law in Turkey is clearly evident in the trial of Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), wrote Stephen Knight, a human rights lawyer who visited Turkey to monitor the trial. Demirtaş was arrested alongside the party's ...

In February 2018, authorities stripped human rights lawyer Sui Muqing of his license for allegedly violating “courtroom etiquette,” and canceled the registration of the Wutian Law Firm for its ... Since August 2017, authorities have revoked or suspended the licenses to practice of several human rights lawyers.

We're going to remember the human rights lawyer and activist who's been called Pakistan's bravest citizen. That was the headline of Asma Jahangir's obituary, written by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid. Jahangir died Sunday of a heart attack at the age of 66. In a New York Times obituary, Jahangir was ...

A leading Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist, Asma Jahangir, has died in the eastern city of Lahore at age 66. Local media reported Jahangir died in a hospital on Sunday after suffering cardiac arrest. "She was always on the front line for progressive voices, even when democracy was under threat," ...

MANILA- President Rodrigo Duterte's decision to withdraw the Philippines' ratification of the Rome Statute, which created the International Criminal Court (ICC) was an "egoistic" move, a human rights lawyer said Tuesday. Gilbert Andres of the Center for International Law (CenterLaw), said Duterte did not ...

The Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) has condemned the detention of the organisation's executive director Ezzat Ghonim and expressed concern for his welfare in a press statement. The human rights lawyer has been detained since 1 March in an undisclosed location; prior to his ...

An Argentine-Venezuelan rights lawyer became the latest activist to escape detention by President Nicolas Maduro's government and flee Venezuela over the weekend. "I am so happy to be free, but so sad for what's left behind," Marcelo Crovato, 51, told Reuters after reaching Colombia from where he was ...

"The Chinese government is continuing to persecute human rights lawyers, more and more harshly," he said. Jiang's sentence was based on his setting up of a campaign group in support of rights lawyers detained in a nationwide police operation targeting the profession since July 2015, the prosecution ...

Li Baiguang, a Christian human rights lawyer who had met regularly with high-level officials in the United States, died at the Number 81 People's Liberation Army Hospital in Nanjing, eastern China, a source with direct knowledge of the case told Reuters. "After a sudden outbreak of illness, the efforts to ...

Acclaimed human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, whose work has freed wrongfully convicted death-row prisoners, reduced excessive sentences given to others, and brought greater equality to the U.S. criminal justice system, will deliver the Bates College Commencement address and receive an honorary ...

Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin on Monday briefly detained the wife of 'disappeared' rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang and forced her to return to Beijing on day six of her 100-kilometer (60-mile) march in search of her husband. Li Wenzu, who says she has no idea if Wang is even alive, set ...

Robert San Aung a prominent human rights lawyer has agreed to handle the case of a former child soldier sentenced to two years of hard labor following his conviction for describing his abduction and forced military service as a minor in an interview last year, RFA reported. In late March, Dagon Seikkan ...