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Syria: UPDATE - Release of human rights lawyersposted on: 2011/04/19

Front Line welcomes the release of five human rights lawyers, Messrs Hussain 'Issa and Tamer Al-Jahmani, members of the Committee for the Defence of Prisoners of Conscience in Syria, and Sulayman Nahili, Nidal Al-Shaykh Hammoud and Muhammad Ibrahim 'Issa during the past two weeks. The five lawyers were arrested between 5 and 27 March 2011 as part of a widescale crackdown by the Syrian authorities against human rights defenders and pro-democracy and political activists across Syria in response to protests calling for democratic reforms and improved observance of civil and political rights.

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Front Line believes that the arrests were directly related to the lawyers' work in the defence of human rights.
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Kyrgyzstan - Attack on Mr Umaraly Mamazhanov, while Kyrgyz officials deny attacks on human rights defenders in southern Kyrgyzstanposted on: 2010/10/24

On 22 October 2010, at approximately 11pm, the Head of the House Committee of Osh district, Mr Tolon Amataliev, reportedly attacked human rights defender Mr Umaraly Mamazhanov (ethnic Uzbek) at a public reception of the Advocacy Centre for Human Rights.

Kyrgyzstan: Dramatic deterioration of the situation for human rights lawyers in southern Kyrgyzstanposted on: 2010/10/18

Human rights defenders in southern Kyrgyzstan have become victims of regular beatings, attacks, threats, and harassment. Human rights organisations and lawyers representing those arrested during the violence in June 2010 have been consistently harassed by the authorities and violently attacked by private individuals.

Colombia: Death threats against human rights lawyers Ms Blanca Irene López and Ms Claudia Erazoposted on: 2009/04/06

Front Line is concerned following reports of death threats against human rights lawyers, Ms Blanca Irene López and Ms Claudia Erazo, received on 26 March 2009. Blanca Irene López and Claudia Erazo work for the Corporación Jurídica Yira Castro – CJYC (Yira Castro Judicial Corporation), an organisation which defends the rights of displaced people and peasant communities.