ALERTE URGENTE AVOCATS

ARGENTINA December 15, 2005 Threats and intimidation against Human rights lawyer Pablo Gabriel Salinas and his colleagues María Angélica Escayola and Alfredo Guevara Escayola.

CHINA - December 10, 2005 - THE IDHAE "FREE ZHENG ENCHONG !" CAMPAIGN" : Zheng Enchong lawyer and human rights defender beaten at Prison in Shanghai where he is currently serving a three-year sentence.

ARGENTINA December 10th 2005 Threats against Human rights lawyer Rodolfo Yanzón.

ZIMBABWE - 6 December 2005 : Gabriel Shumba, human rights lawyer, and Media lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa on the ban list of people seized passports to prevent them from to either leave or enter the country

IRAN - December 3, 2005 : Tehran Prosecutor appoinnted a new investigating judge who decided on that Mr. Soltani should remain in preliminary detention for a period of three additional months. UPDATED

COLOMBIA - 17 November 2005 : Human rights lawyer and defendant of FARC prisoner Rodrigo Granda Escobar, Ernesto Moreno Gordillo, shot in the leg, the arm and the face

RUSSIA -November 17th, 2005 : lawyer, Irina Komissarova, has been removed from his case after she filed a complaint that Rasul Kudaev had been tortured

IRAQ - November 8, 2005 Adil Muhammed al-Zubaidi, a lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants shot and killed by gunmen

CHINA - 4 November 2005 activist lawyer Gao Zhisheng's law firm ordered closed for a year by the Beijing Judicial Bureau

THE IDHAE "FREE MUHAMMAD RAD'UN!" CAMPAIGN" SYRIA - 3 Novembre 2005 : Muhammad Ra'dun, lawyer and Head of the Arab Organisation for Human Rights - Syria (AOHR-S) released on bail.

ETHIOPIA Novembre 2005 Birtukan Mideksa , CUD Vice-President, lawyer and former judge , and hundreds of people detained after demonstrations

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (RCD ) - 31 October 2005 : Murdeer of Lawyer Leonard Mukendi Kabongo (in French only)

CUBA - 31 October 2005 : Hundred days of jail and harassment for lawyer René Gómez Manzano.

BELARUS - October 28th 2005 : New acts of harassment against Vera Stremkovskaya forbidden from leaving Belarus in order to attend an international conference

IRAQ - October 20, 2005 : Defense attorney Sadoon Al-Janabi , Lawyer for Saddam Hussein Co-Defendant, kidnapped and found Dead

SUDAN - 1 October 2005 : Mohamed Ahmed Abd Al-Gadir Al-Arbab arrested by police

GUATÉMALA - 9-16 October 2005 : String of death threats, and suffered intimidation, Against Lawyer Romeo Monterrosa Orellana his wife and two daughters.

TUNISIA - 21 September 2005 : Harassment against lawyer Hédi Menai

TUNISIA - 21 September 2005 : "The IDHAE "FREE Mohamed Abbou Campaign !" - International day for the release of Lawyer Mohamed Abbou.

CHINA - 6 September 2005 : Chen Guangcheng, self-educated lawyer helping villagers in the eastern province of Shandong, detained in Beijing and under house arrest since.

BRAZIL September 4, 2005 2005 Antonio Fernandez Saenz, a lawyer for the socially deprived inhabitants in São Bernardo do Campo and his wife, Jussara Barbato

SYRIA - 22 May 2005 : Muhammad Ra'dun, lawyer and Head of the Arab Organisation for Human Rights - Syria (AOHR-S)RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 3th 2005

CUBA - September 2005 : Testimony give via telephone from Cuba by Juan Carlos González Leiva. September 2005

CUBA - 6 August 2005 : Harassment and temporary detention of Mr. Juan Carlos González Leiva, , the blind lawyer and president of the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights.

NIGERIA - 2 août 2005 : Harassment against Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, one of Africa's leading human rights lawyers by operatives of Nigeria's State Security Service (SSS) .

IRAN - 30 July 2005 : Mr. Abdolfattah Soltani, defence lawyer of Akbar Ganji, arrested

CUBA - 22 July 2005 : Lawyer René Gómez Manzano, arrested in latest Government Crackdown, faces 20 years imprisonment.

TURKEY - 20 July 2005 : Lawyer Hüseyin Aygün now prosecuted for charges of defamation of the Gendarmerie after he has been threatened repeatedly by a local military commander

IRAN - 4 July 2005 : Temporary release of Nasser Zarafchan, human rights lawyer

EQUATORIAL GUINEA - 01 July 2005 : lawyer Fabián Nsue Nguema suspended for a year from the Equatorial Guinea Bar Association for alleged but unspecified misconduct.

SYRIA - 26 June 2005 : Aktham Naisse finally acquitted on Sunday by the Syrian Supreme State Security Court (SSSC)

MONGOLIA - June 2005 : Lodoisambuu Sanjaasuren , lawyer and human rights defender,is now “in a critical condition because he is not receiving proper medical attention in prison.

IRAN - June 2005 Nasser Zarafshan lawyer and human rights defender requires immediate medical attention

TUNISIA - 10 June 2005 : Lawyer Mohamed Abbou prison sentence confirmed at new sham hearing

SYRIA - 22 May 2005 : Muhammad Ra'dun, lawyer and Head of the Arab Organisation for Human Rights - Syria (AOHR-S)RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 3th 2005

TUNISIA - 21 May 2005 : New Appeal for Lawyer Mohamed Abbou and Lawyer Faouzi Ben M'rad, condemned to four months jail for remarks he made outside a court where he was pleading a case.

SAUDI ARABIA - 15 May 2005 : New concern: Prisoners of conscience ; lawyer and the human rights activist Abdel Rahman al-Lahem(granted a royal pardon and released on 9 August 2008)

COLOMBIA - 13 May 2005 : Death Threat against Soraya Gutiérrez Arguello, a lawyer and the President of the non-governmental human rights organization Corporación Colectivo de Abogados ‘José Alvear Restrepo’, José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective and her family

TUNISIA - 3 May 2005 : Crackdown against lawyers increased (in French only)

TUNISIA - 29 April 2005 : Mohamed Abbou, Tunisian lawyer has been condemned to three years and six months of jail.

MAURITANIA - 25 April 2005 : Human rights lawyer and law professor Mohamed Ahmed Ould El Hadj Sidi, arrested and detained in Nouakchott

SYRIA - 24 April 2005 : Aktham Naisse's trial is postponed again until 26 June 2005

SUDAN - 21 April 2005 : Sati' Mohamed Al-Hajj, human rights lawyer, arrested by security forces and held incommunicado (released from detention on 22 April)

FRANCE - 19 April 2005 : Lawyer France Moulin, imprisoned for having revealed information to parties pursuant to new law of March 9th, 2004.(released from detention on 12 May)

TURKEY - 19 April 2005 : New death threats against Eren Keskin and two other members of the Human Rights Association (IHD)

VENEZUELA - 14 April 2005: Carlos Ayala Corao, one of Latin America's most prominent human rights lawyers summoned to appear before a Caracas public prosecutor for involvement in the April 12 2002 coup against Mr Chavez

BRAZIL 21-25 March 2005 - Two lawyers, Francisco Lúcio França, José de Jesús Filho and Isabel Peres , Coordinator for ACAT-Brazil, suffered death threats and intimidation

MEXICO - 15 March 2005 : Threats against Leonel Rivero Rodríguez, human rights lawyer

CHINA - March 4, 2005 : Authorities suspend license of Guo Guoting, defense attorney for three jailed journalists

TUNISIA - March, 4 2005 : Radhia Nasraoui injured.(French only)

RUSSIA -March 3rd, 2005 : Svetlana Bakhmina, jailed lawyer for the embattled Yukos oil company , began a hunger strike March 3 to protest after investigators refused to give her permission to speak to her two sons

TUNISIA - March, 2 2005 : Lawyer Mohamed Abbou arrested. Violent crackdown on a pacefull protestation. Lawyers strike on March 9.

LEBANON March 2nd 2005 New prosecution against Muhamad Mugraby, a Lebanese attorney in Beirut and a well-known defender of human rights. (French only)

YEMEN _ March 1st 2005 defence lawyers Mohammad Naji Allow and Jamal al-Ju'bi have been subjected to beatings by security forces .

TURKEY - 11 February 2005 : Lawyer Hüseyin Aygün has been threatened repeatedly by a local military commander

MYANMAR - 8 February 2005 : lawyer U Shwe Ohn, aged 82, veteran politician leader, placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) .

NEPAL - 1st February 2005 : Nanda Bhandari, lawyer and member of the Centre for Victims of Torture (CVICT), and secretary of Nepal Bar Association Unit Lok Prasad Pant, lawyer and Chairman of the Civil Society Network.(released on February 24)

NEPAL - 1 February 2005 : Sindhunath Pyakurel former head of the Nepal Bar Association (NBA) arrested by security forces personnel at his office in Kathmandu. (released on February 14)

TUNISIE - 21 janvier 2005 : Death threats against Raouf Ayadi, a lawyer and former general secretary for CNLT(French only)

RUSSIAN FEDERATION(Chechen Republic) 20 January 2005 : "DISPARITION" de Makhmud Magomadov a well-known human rights lawyer in Grozny abducted by camouflaged gunmen (EUR 46/002/2005 AU 18/05) (back home again, 14/02/2005)

BOLIVIA - 8 January 2005 : Lawyer Cliver Rocha threatened with being burnt alive, and his colleagues members of CEJIS (Centre for Legal Studies and Social Research). whose offices have been attacked (AMR 18/001/2005 )

GUATÉMALA - 7 January 2005 lawyer Armando Sánchez whose safety is seriously at risk following an earlier death threat.


Radhia Nasraoui	Parvez Aslam Choudhry	Juan Carlos Gonzales Leiva	Abdolfattah Soltani


Jeetman Basnet	Salih Mahmoud Osman	Nasser Zarafchan	Zheng Enchong