Philippines: Lawyer who survived slay attempt wins human rights award | Rappler

Filipino lawyer Angelo Karlo Guillen is set to receive a top human rights award for his relentless work in the face of threats and harassment, including an assassination attempt in 2021.

Aysel Tuğluk’s treatment by Turkish court ‘amounts to torture’, says lawyer | Medya News

The treatment Kurdish politician and human rights lawyer Aysel Tuğluk has received from Turkey’s courts since her arrest and later dementia diagnosis behind bars constitutes torture, a human rights lawyer has said.

Israel: Continued administrative detention of human rights lawyer Salah Hammouri | FIDH

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and other organisations are gravely concerned about the continued administrative detention and the harassment through judicial proceedings of French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender, Salah Hammouri.

Sentence of American lawyer held in UAE is overturned | The New York Times

An American lawyer imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates since mid-July is expected to be released after his sentence was overturned by an Emirati court, reversing a punishment that raised alarm that he was being targeted for political reasons.

Amnesty defiant despite Ukraine report outcry | France24

Rights group Amnesty International has remained defiant under its high-profile secretary general in the face of a growing outcry over a report critics alleged boosted Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.

End protest crackdown, UN, rights groups tell Sri Lanka president | Al Jazeera

The United Nations and several prominent international human rights organisations have condemned the repeated use of emergency regulations against peaceful protesters by the Sri Lanka government.

UK must curb influence of European human rights rules, says Braverman | The Guardian

Ministers should “take radical action” to counter the influence of European human rights rules to curb a burgeoning industry of highly paid equalities officers touting bogus grievances, Suella Braverman, the UK government’s chief law officer, has argued.

Palestinian lawyers strike sees Abbas abolish controversial decrees | The New Arab

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has formally abolished a series of controversial laws-by-decree issued in March, as well as amending penal, commercial, and judicial procedure laws.

Spanish lawyer names bishops and priests pushing conversion therapy | openDemocracy

A Spanish human rights lawyer has named 70 practitioners and promoters of so-called ‘conversion therapy’ in Spain, among them Catholic bishops and priests.

Sudan woman faces death by stoning for adultery in first case for a decade | The Guardian

A woman in Sudan has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, the first known case in the country for almost a decade.