2007
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ETHIOPIA – 26 December 2007 : Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie received a two-and-a-half year jail sentence for “inciting post-election violence in 2005”, prison time they have already served during the pre-trial detention
Released in the following days.
PERU - 18 December 2007 : Death threats against Gloria Cano, the lawyer representing the families of the victims in the human rights violations case against Alberto Fujimori.
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SYRIA - 13 December 2007 : ”The Free Anwar al-Brunni Campaign !" : New trial for Anwar al-Bunni, held on before the Military Court of Damascus for defamation against the Minister of Social Affairs. English only
SAUDI ARABIA - December, 5 2007 : Saudi human rights lawyer Abdul-Rahman al-Lahem charged for negative statements about judiciary after defending a rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison.
PAKISTAN - December 29th 2007 The "Stop Crackdown on Lawyers in Pakistan !"Campaign : Lawyers baton-charged by police and other iron rods in Lahore High Court and then arrested during protests in Lahore.
VIETNAM - November 27th 2007 The "Stop Crackdown on Lawyers in Vietnam !"Campaign
: Lê Thi Công Nhân and Nguyên Van Dai's sentences reduced on appeal trial to 4 and 3 years of imprisonment from 5 and 4 years respectively
PLEASE TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY !
PAKISTAN - November 26th 2007 The "Stop Crackdown on Lawyers in Pakistan !"Campaign : Munir A. Malik, former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) tortured, poisoned in detention .
BRAZIL - November 21, 2006 : New threats against Henri Burin de Roziers, Ludovic Trarieux Prize Winner 2005
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COLOMBIA - November 15th, 2007 The "Stop Assassination of Lawyers in Colombia !"Campaign : Order to assassinate Jose Humberto Torres, a lawyer in Barranquilla, remains in force
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CHINA - 14 November 2007 :Yang Maodong, alias Guo Feixiong condemned to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 40,000 yuan .
PAKISTAN - November 12th 2007 The "Stop Crackdown on Lawyers in Pakistan !"Campaign : Syed Hassan Tariq, a prominent human rights lawyer, in serious condition after he was brutally tortured by the police. PAKISTAN - November 5th 2007 The "Stop Crackdown on Lawyers in Pakistan !"Campaign : Hundreds of lawyers arrested across Pakistan as the police continued to enforce President Pervez Musharraf's emergency declaration. Mr.Parvez Aslam Choudhry among arrested lawyers in Lahore. PAKISTAN - November 3rd The "Stop Crackdown on Lawyers in Pakistan !"Campaign : Asma Jahangir, HRCP Chairperson, human rights lawyer and United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, as well as the arrest warrant issued against Ms. Hina Jilani, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Human Rights Defenders, under arbitrary house arrest. 
IRAN - October 27, 2005 -
THE IDHAE "FREE Abdolfattah Soltani !" CAMPAIGN"
: Abdolfattah Soltani although acquitted did not recovered yet his identity documents and is prevented from exercising his freedom of movement.
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ISRAEL/PALESTINE - October 24th 2007 - Raji Sourani, founder and director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, denied travel to attend an event in the Scottish Parliament.
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CHINA - 29 September 2007 :Li Heping, a Beijing-based human rights lawyer, abducted and assaulted .
PAKISTAN - September 29th 2007 The "Stop Crackdown on Lawyers in Pakistan !"Campaign : Police fired tear gas and used batons on lawyers protesting General Pervez Musharraf`s bid to get re-elected 
BURMA- September 25th, 2007 :
U Aye Myint,a prominent human rights lawyer,arrested in Pegu, north of Rangoon
CHINA - 22 September 2007 : Unlawful Secret Arrest of human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng. UPDATED October 28, 2007
TUNISIA - September 20th 2007 : Lawyer Nejib Chebbi , charman of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) and director of the weekly paper “Al-Mawkef”, started an unlimited hunger strike in protest for harassment against PDP.
Me Ahmed Néjib Chebbi, avocat fondateur du PDP et directeur et rédacteur en chef du quotidien du parti, Al Mawkif, en grève de la faim pour protester contre une procédure d'expulsion.French only
ISRAEL/PALESTINE - 31 AUgust 2007 - Raji Sourani, director of Palestinian Center for Human Rights, prevented from Participating in the “UN Conference on Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace” in Belgium
CUBA - August 26, 2007 : Continuing harassment against Juan Carlos González Leiva, president of Fundación Cubana de Derechos Humanos. 
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COLOMBIA - August 23, 2007 : Judicial proceedings against Armando Pérez Araujo, a lawyer representing indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities displaced in the path of the mining at El Cerrejon, La Guajira
ZIMBABWE - August 22, 2007 : Death threats against Mr. Kucaca Phulu, a lawyer and chairperson of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights).
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NEPAL - August 18, 2007 : Harassment against Human rights lawyer Jitman Basnet after he has recently published a book relating his arbitrary detention, 258
Dark Days
MEXICO - 5 August 2007 : Harassment against Jair Pineda, lawyer with Frente Amplio Opositor (FAO).
CHINA - July 24, 2007 : further acts of harassment against human rights lawyer Zheng Enchong in Shanghai.
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TUNISIA - 24 July 2007 -THE IDHAE "FREE MOHAMMED ABBOU !" CAMPAIGN" : Imprisoned "freedom lawyer" Mohammed Abbou released !
STOP APPEALS NOW ! THANK YOU !.
TUNISIA - July 17, 2007 - Criminal proceedings against Me Abderraouf Ayadi.
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ETHIOPIA - July 16, 2007 -THE IDHAE "FREE BIRTUKAN MIDEKSA !" CAMPAIGN" : Lawyer and former judge, Birtukan Mideksa, sentenced to life imprisonment with 35 opposition leaders.Released July 20th 2007 (After "presidential pardon").
CHINA - June 30, 2007 : Refusal of renewing the license for Li Jianqiang’s, a lawyer committed in the defence of dissidents in the PRC.
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ALGERIA - June 18th 2007 : Sofiane Chouiter, a lawyer and member of SOS-Disappeared, harassed ans threatened after he spoke in a symposium in Morocco.
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SUDAN – 13 June 2007 : Three lawyers Imad Merghani Sid Ahmed, Alam Aldeen Abd Alghni and Abd Allah Abdelghum arrested by security forces after investigation the violence following protests against the plans for the Kajbar Dam.
. Released 19 August 2007
ALGERIA - June 12th 2007 : Judicial proceedings against Mr. Amine Sidhoum Abderrahman starts again against Amine Sidhoum Abderramane,a lawyer and member of SOS-Disappeared.
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PAKISTAN - June 9th 2007 : Parvez Aslam Choudhry, continuously threatened and harassed after he has survived an apparent attempt on his life 
TOGO
- June 1st, 2007 : Martial Akakpo, lawyer in Lomé, president of Observatoire togolais de la bonne gouvernance (OTBG), arrested in his law office. French only
NEPAL - May 29, 2007 : Harassment against Lawyers of Advocacy Forum, created in 2001 by human rights lawyers that has been providing legal aid to detainees in police detention centres
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IRAN - May 28, 2005 -
THE IDHAE "FREE Abdolfattah Soltani !" CAMPAIGN"
: Abdolfattah Soltani acquitted on appeal of charges related to espionage after spending 219 days behind bars.
TUNISIA - 24 May 2007 -THE IDHAE "FREE MOHAMMED ABBOU !" CAMPAIGN" : Imprisoned "freedom lawyer" Mohammed Abbou one of Tunisian leading human rights defenders was forcibly dragged from a meeting with his family simply
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NEPAL - May 21, 2007 : Harassment against Jitman Basnet, a lawyer, a journalist and a human rights activist English only
HONDURAS
- May 17th 2007 : Félix Antonio Cáceres Alvarenga, a lawyer with the human rights organization, the Asociación para una Sociedad más Justa (ASJ), Association for a More Just Society, is reported to have received a death threat .
VIETNAM - May 11th 2007 The "Stop Crackdown on Lawyers in Vietnam !"Campaign
: Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan , Pro-democracy human rights lawyers sentenced to five years and four years prison
VIETNAM - May 10th 2007 The "Stop Crackdown on Lawyers in Vietnam !"Campaign : Lawyer Nguyen Bac Truyen, member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) sentenced to four years prison
MEXICO - May 9th 2007 : Yesica Sánchez Maya , facing arrest on charges which appear to be baseless.
ZIMBABWE - May 8, 2007 : Beatrice Mtetwa, president of the Law Society of Zimbabwe, and five other lawyers severely beaten by the police in Harare Zimbabwe, for leading the legal profession in Zimbabwe to defend the rule of law and protest the frequent harassment of lawyers in Zimbabwe by the police
ZIMBABWE - May 4, 2007 : Alec Muchadehama and Andrew Makoni, two senior lawyers of ZLHR and partners in the law firm Mbidzo Muchadehama and Makoni, arrested outside the High Court
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC) - April 30th 2007 :
Marie-Thérèse Nlandu Mpolo-Nene and her nine co-defendants acquitted of all charges by a Kinshasa military court
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SYRIA - 24 April 2007 : ”The Free Anwar al-Brunni Campaign !" : Anwar al-Bunni, condemned to a five year jail sentence and 2000 $ fine for spreading false news
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RUSSIA - April 18, 2007 : Karinna Moskalenko facing disbarment in connection with her representation of Khodorkovsky
English only TUNISIA - 14 April 2007 : Me Abderraouf Ayadi attacked by member of Regime police inside the Law Courts
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ARGENTINA - April 9th 2007: Threats against Pablo Gabriel Salinas
CUBA - April 6th 2007 : The IDHAE "FREE Rolando Jimenez Pozada campaign !" :Rolando Jimenez Pozada, un avocat cubain dissident, condamné à 12 ans de prison lors d'un procès "secret", pour "insolence" envers le président Fidel Castro Español
IRAN - March 15, 2007 - Lawyer and human rights defender Nasser Zarafshan was released from Evin Prison.
RUSSIA - March 9th, 2007 : Mikhail Trepashkin transferred to a standard prison colony, whith a stricter regime.
VIETNAM - March 8th 2007 The "Stop Crackdown on Lawyers in Vietnam !"Campaign : Lê Qu?c Quân , pro-democracy lawyers, arrested and jailed upon his return home to Vietnam
VIETNAM - March 6th 2007 The "Stop Crackdown on Lawyers in Vietnam !"Campaign : Hanoi Jailed Democracy lawyers Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan
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ALGERIA - February 21st 2007 : Trial once again delayed for Amine Sidhoum Abderramane, a lawyer and member of the NGO SOS Disappeared and Hassiba Boumerdassi, a lawyer and member of the Association of the Families of Disappeared Persons in Algeria
Acquitted on April 25th 2007 - Stop appeals - Thank you !
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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC) - February 20th 2007 : Death threats against Joseph Dunia Ruyenzi lawyer in Goma and human rights activist
CUBA - 8 February 2007 : ”The Free René Gómez Manzano Campaign !" : René Gomez Manzano is free STOP APPEALS NOW. THANK YOU !Español
GUATEMALA - February 5th 2007 : Francisco Soto Angélica González Otto Navarro Jennifer Echeverría Lawyers at the Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH), the Centre for Legal Action on Human Rights
received death threats Español
SAUDI ARABIA - February 3, 2007 : Lawyers Sulaiman al-Rashudi and Essam al-Basrawi arrested
BOLIVIA - 21 January 2007 : Adalberto Rojas, lawyer and President of Bolivian non-governmental organization, the Asamblea Permanente en Santa Cruz de la Sierra (APDH), Permanent Human Rights Assembly in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz Department, threatened and intimidated.
CHINE - January 11, 2007 : Yang Maodong, alias Guo Feixiong subjected to torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment while in detention
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