Kenyan Senior Counsel Martha Karua, a former justice minister of Kenya, has sued the government of Uganda over her deportation and the decision to declare her persona non grata. She is suing the Attorney General jointly with the Uganda Law Society, challenging the decision of the principal immigration officer at Entebbe International Airport to deny …
A legal briefing published on September 30 examines the prosecution of Ahmed Souab, a lawyer and former administrative judge who, after the final hearing in the “Conspiracy Case” in April 2025, publicly accused the Ministry of Justice of pressuring the trial judge. He was charged under the counter-terrorism law and other statutes and sentenced in …
On September 25 the convictions of eight lawyers from Gilan province in a joint case before the Revolutionary Court in Rasht were reported, on charges of “propaganda against the system” and insulting Iran’s current and former supreme leaders. This report places the verdicts within a wider pattern: defendants in certain security cases may choose only …
Acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter filed notice on September 11 that the Justice Department will appeal to the Eleventh Circuit from Judge Kathleen Williams’s July order dismissing the President’s and his two eldest sons’ ten-billion-dollar suit against the IRS and Treasury. Williams found the case non-adversarial, collusive and jurisdictionally improper because the plaintiff …
Between September 12 and 14, coordinated police raids across five Turkish cities targeted organisations defending LGBT rights, part of an operation the justice minister said involved 162 people under investigation; Human Rights Watch reported that at least 112 people were arrested and that a court in Mersin detained six activists including a lawyer. When lawyers …
A review of cases documented between September 2025 and September 2026 finds at least 135 attorneys across Iran subjected to judicial and security measures, including summonses, arrests, prison sentences, bans from practising law and travel restrictions. The compiler, HRANA, verified the identities of 60 lawyers across fourteen provinces and documented at least 75 further cases in …
Rafael Henrique Silva de Mello, 45, was killed on the night of August 27 after scheduling a meeting at a Campinas property with people who had presented themselves as new clients. Security cameras recorded two men arriving by motorcycle, forcing him out of the building onto the pavement, and shooting him during a struggle; his phone was taken. …
Turkish police detained lawyer Alişan İnci on August 21, the second defense lawyer for government critic and Islamic preacher Alparslan Kuytul taken into custody within three days. Bilal İpek, another of Kuytul’s lawyers, was detained on August 19 and had his phone seized, reportedly after commenting on a social media post by a presidential aide …
Amnesty International issued a follow-up Urgent Action on August 7, 2026, calling on Zimbabwean authorities to drop all charges against human rights defender Bhekimpilo Mbedzi. Mbedzi was arrested on July 15 after posting a video on Facebook urging the public to join a demonstration planned for July 31 against Constitutional Amendment Act No. 3; authorities …
On July 31 (Thailand), Human Rights Watch reported that Angkhana Neelapaijit, a senator and former member of Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission, filed a police complaint after a wave of social media posts accused her of being unpatriotic and sympathetic to a separatist group, with some posts calling for her to be killed or “disappeared.” …