Lawyers under threath
May 3rd, 2008Everywhere in the world lawyers and independent judges are more and more under threat. Death squads in the
IADL is organising solidarity with progressive lawyers everywhere in the world that are subject to pressure, intimidation and persecution.
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- Fri, 04/12/2009 - 14:11
Until ‘butchers' in Ampatuan massacre are convicted
Lawyers will wear black armbands, ribbons in courts
As a symbolic way to demand speedy justice for the victims of the Ampatuan town massacre, human rights law group, National Union of Peoples' Lawyers (NUPL), has directed all its 300 lawyer-members in the country to wear black armbands or ribbons especially whenever they appear in courts until the ‘butchers' of 59 innocent civilians, journalists, and lawyers have been convicted.
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