2010
IRAN - 8 August 2010 :
Mohammad Mostafaei forced to flee the country in order to evade arrest is now safe in Norway. On 7 August, his wife, Fereshteh Halimi was released from Evin prison in Tehran.
COLOMBIA - 4 August 2010 : Judith Maldonado Mojica assaulted by two armed men on a motorbike. . 
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KYRGYZSTAN - 2 August 2010, lawyer Nurbek Toktakunov was attacked while visiting his client, imprisoned human rights defender Mr Azimjan Askarov in Jalalabad regional police station.
PAKISTAN - 30 July 2010 : Life attacks against Parvez Aslam Choudhry ,
président de Legal Aid for the Destitute and Settlement (LADS).Anglais
IRAN - 24 July
2010 : Mohammad Mostafaei interrogated in Evin prison for four hours and left the country facing re-arrest as his wife and brother-in-law are held by Iran authorities. Mohammad Mostafaei is now in Norway. His wife was released on 8th August.
HONDURAS
- 21 July 2010 : Kenia Oliva Cardona, a lawyer with the Honduran human rights organization Committee of Relatives(COFADEH), at risk. Español
INDIA - 18 July 2010 The IDHAE "STOP CRACKDOWN ON KASHMIR BAR ASSOCIATION !" CAMPAIGN" : Ghulam Nabi Shaheen, General Secretary of the Bar Association, was detained on similar grounds under the PSA as well as for organising public mobilisations calling for the release of Mian Abdul Qayoom.Several lawyers on hunger strike .
TANZANIA – 13 July 2010 : Jwani Mwaikusa, law professor of Dar es Salaam and defense lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda, gunned down outside his home in Dar es Salaam .
INDIA - 7 July 2010 The IDHAE "STOP CRACKDOWN ON KASHMIR BAR ASSOCIATION !" CAMPAIGN": Mian Qayoom
the President of High Court Bar Association, arrested and jailed under draconian law, Public Safety Act (PSA.
GUATEMALA - 6 July 2010 : Threats against Miroslava García, lawyer for Centro de Acción Legal - Ambiental y Social de Guatemala (CALAS). Español
NEPAL – 5 July 2010 : Pradeep Dongol, one of the lawyers who filed the FIR for a 14 year old domestic beaten for small mistakes, manhandled by persons known to the alleged perpetrators.
SYRIA – Haitham al-Maleh
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SYRIA – 24 June
2010 : Muhannad Al-Hasani sentenced to three years imprisonment Muhannad Al-Hasani for “weakening national sentiments and encouraging racist and sectarian feelings”.
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RUSSIA – 17 June 2010 : Sapiyat Magomedova, a Dagestani lawyer, severely beaten up by police in Khasavyurt in the northern part of the republic while assisting a client.
TURKEY - 4 June 2010 : Dink family lawyer Hakan Karadag found dead in his apartment. French.
RWANDA – 28 mai 2010 : American Lawyer Peter Erlinder arrested By Rwandan Police and charged with genocide denial.
UPDATE 17 June 2010 : released on bail by the Rwandan High Court on on medical grounds.
VENEZUELA - 27 May 2010 : Ongoing harassment and intimidation against Humberto Prado Sifontes, lawyer and Director of the Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones – OVP (Venezuelan Prisons Observatory),
ZIMBABWE – 17 May 2010 : Jonathan Samkange, the lawyer representing Africa Consolidated Resources CEO Andrew Cranswick, briefly arrested by police in Harare.
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IRAN - 15 May 2010 : Iran's Revolutionary Court sentenced exiled lawyer Shadi Sadr in absentia to 6 years imprisonment and 74 lashes, for participation in peaceful demonstrations in 2007.
GUATEMALA - 13 May 2010 : Threats and harassment against Alejandro Argueta Ramírez.
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KUWEIT - 10 May 2010 : Mohammed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem, lawyer and blogger, arrested for allegedly insulting Kuwait's head of state .Procès renvoyé au 21 juin.
VENEZUELA - 6 May 2010 : Threats and harassment against Rocío San Miguel, a lawyer and chairman for organización "Civil Control Ciudadano para la Seguridad, la Defensa y la Fuerza Armada Nacional".
SYRIA – 4 May 2010 : New public hearing of the trial of human rights lawyer Muhannad Al-Hassani, . Hearing postponed 27th May 2010.
IRAN - 1st May 2010 : Mohammad Olyaeifard detained on charges of "propaganda against the system" to begin serving a one-year jail term.
TUNISIA : 1st May 2010 : The law office of Radhia Nasraoui burglarized for the fifth time.French
CHINA - 30 April 2010 : The Beijing Municipal Justice Bureau officially announced the revocation of the lawyer licenses of Tang Jitian and Liu Wei, two Chinese lawyers who represented a Falun Gong practitioner.
MEXICO - 30 April 2010 : Jail thrats against contre Jaime López Vela, a lawyer and director of AGENDA LGBT .
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CHINA - 20 April 2010 : Harassment against lawyer Lin Hongnan and his law firm disolved in retaliation for taking up the “Three Fuzhou Netizens” case on order of Fuzhou City Bureau of Justice.
CAMEROON - 12 April 2010 : Lydienne Yen Eyoum-Loyse jailed in held in inhuman conditions. French
ARGENTINA - 8 April 2010 : The law office of Maria Isabel Caccioppoli,lawyer for crimes against humanity in Argentina, burned down in Concepción del Uruguay.
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ETHIOPIA - 23 March 2010 -A "New" IDHAE "FREE BIRTUKAN MIDEKSA !" CAMPAIGN" : Extreme concern for physical and mental health of Birtukan Mideksa, after she spent more than six months in solitary confinement . TAKE ACTION !
VENEZUELA - 22 March 2010 : Oswaldo Álvarez Paz, a lawyer and former Governor of Zulia, arrested for remarks during a broadcast.
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SRI LANKA - 20 March 2010 :Supun Ratnayake, a lawyer in Kandy ,ill treated in public by a senior police officer.
PHILIPPINES - 19 March 2010 : lawyer Dante B. Untalan shot to death by unidentified gunmen at San Carlos City. .
CHINA - 18 March 2010 : Lawyer Liang Xiaojun threatened and Forced to Withdraw .
ARGENTINE - 18 March 2010 : Judicial harrasement against Messrs. Diego Jorge Lavado, Alfredo Guevara Escayola, Pablo Gabriel Salinas and Ms. Viviana Laura Beigel .
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SYRIA – 10 March 2010 : First public hearing of the trial of human rights lawyer Muhannad Al-Hassani, .
VIETNAM - 9 March 2009 : Le Thi Cong Nhan, detained shortly after her release from three years in prison to prevent her from giving an interview with a foreign journalist .
CHINA - 9 March 2010 : Christian lawyer, Dai Jinbo, summoned for one and an half hour interrogation by the state security police of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.
TUNISIA – 5 March 2010 : Lawyer Mohamed Abbou harassed, documents seized at Tunis airport.French
CHINA - 7 May 2010 : Lawyer Wang Zhansuo and his family arrested in Qingdao City .
BURMA – 5 March 2010 : Ko Phoe Phyu, received shortly after his release a notice that his licence had been revoked.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
(DRC) - 3 March 2010 : Lawyer Firmin Yangambi Libote , chairman fo “Peace on Earth”, condamned to a death sentence for trying to "organise a rebel movement".
SRI LANKA - 3 March 2010 : Threats od arrest and defamation campaign against J. C. Weliamuna, Executive Director of Transparency International - Sri Lanka (TISL).
MEXICO - 2 March 2010 : Human rights defender and lawyer Ernesto Rábago Martínez, assassinated in his office in the state of Chihuahua .
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LEBANON - 2 March 2010 : Passport seized for the lawyer, Nizar Saghieh, without providing any justification.
SYRIA – 22 February 2010 : New false charges against Haytham al-Maleh, 78. His health is failing more and more. He has not taken any of the medication he needs since 11 February.
SYRIA – 22 February 2010 : Travel ban on Radef Moustafa, a lawyer assisting Mr Muhanad Alhasani. Anglais
GUATEMALA - 17 February 2010 : Juan Antonio Chen, Mayan lawyer, was shot dead in his car, by a man in a pickup truck.
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IRAN - 8 February 2010 : Arrest of lawyer Maryam Ghanbari.UPDATE : February 27th : bail set at $50,000 for her release
INDIA - 6 February 2010 : Mr. N. Ganesan , a practicing lawyer and a member of the Madurai Bar Association, brutally beaten and abused by several senior police officials of Madurai city .
PAKISTAN - 2 February 2010 : New death threats against human rights lawyer, Mr Parvez Aslam Choudhry Parvez Aslam Choudhry, president of Legal Aid for the Destitute and Settlement (LADS).Anglais
INDIA - 31 January 2010 : Arbitrary detention, judicial harassment and ill-treatments against Devi Singh Rawat.
TURKEY - 28 January 2010 : Court releases Filiz Kalayci . Charges for “aiding illegal organisations” remain pending and the trial will resume on 10 June 2010.
MEXICO - 26 January 2010 : New threats against human rights defender and lawyer Alba Cruz Ramos .
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VIETNAM - 20 January 2010 : Human rights lawyer Lê Công Dinh former Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association sentenced to five years in prison on subversion charges.
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HONDURAS - 18 January 2010 : Death threats against lawyer Nectali Rodezno Izagurre and his famil in reprisal for work as coordinator of the Association of Lawyers against the Coup. Español
ANGOLA - 17 January 2010 : Lawyer, Francisco Luemba arrested at his house .
FIDJI- 11 janvier 2010 : Harassment of Imrana Jalal, a former Fiji Human Rights Commissioner and founding member of the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement.
CHINA - 8 January 2010 : Li Zhuang convicted and sentenced to two and a half years for fabricating evidence and interfering with witness testimonies by the Chongqing Jiangbei district court. Sentence reduced to 1 1/2-year prison term during appeal.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)- 6 January 2010 : Prosecutor of Militaty Court in Kinshasa seeks the death penalty forlawyer Firmin Yangambi.
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