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A Turkish court on Wednesday acquitted three police officers nine years after the killing of a prominent rights lawyer in the Kurdish majority city of Diyarbakir. Tahir Elci, a prominent campaigner for Kurdish rights, was shot dead on a…
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Tunisian lawyer Mahdi Zagrouba was tortured by police officers after being arrested on Monday, lawyers and a human rights organization said on Wednesday after he collapsed in court and was taken to a hospital. The Interior Ministry did…
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Tunisian police stormed the bar association’s headquarters for the second time in two days and arrested a lawyer, witnesses said on Monday, after detaining two journalists as well as another lawyer critical of the president over the…
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Students protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza are being treated more harshly and unfairly by authorities at Arizona State University than pro-Israel activists, including a professor accused of harassing a Muslim woman who was not…
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A jury ordered Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million in damages on Friday for defaming two Georgia poll workers with his false claims they engaged in election fraud. The eight-person federal jury awarded Ruby…
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Iranian authorities have arrested a prominent lawyer and human rights defender as she attended the funeral of a teenage girl who died after a disputed metro incident, her husband said Monday. The arrest of 60-year-old Nasrin Sotoudeh…
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Then Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ordered an aide to sell undeclared luxury jewelry received as a gift and funnel the money to him, a lawyer for the aide charged Friday. Cezar Bittencourt, who represents Bolsonaro’s former…
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The Beirut Bar Association is facing a chorus of criticism over what are seen as attempts to muzzle lawyers. The controversy deepened as Lebanese lawyer and human rights activist Nizar Saghieh appeared before the association’s council on…
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Iranian authorities on Tuesday released from jail prominent human rights lawyer Mostafa Nili, his attorney said, more than five months after he was arrested during nationwide protests. The demonstrations were triggered last year…
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Alec Baldwin's lawyer has claimed the gun which killed Halyna Hutchins has been destroyed. Alex Spiro - the attorney representing the Rust star in his involuntary manslaughter case - claimed in a virtual hearing on Thursday that the prop…
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