Join the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L), The Law Society and the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights on 24 January 2025 from 15.00 – 16.30 CET for an online event marking the International Day Of The EndangeredLawyer. Register here: tinyurl.com/bdernb6y
Keynote speech: • Margaret Satterthwaite, UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Moderator: • Tony Fisher, Chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales Panel discussion: • Illia Salei, Belarusian lawyer in exile, UK solicitor • Vaida Rudenaite, Senior Legal Advisor, Lithuanian Ministry of Justice • Karinna Moskalenko, Chair, UN Independent Expert Group on Belarus • Elena Shinkarevich, Belarusian Association of Human Rights Lawyers • Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, Director, IBAHRI
Closing remarks: • Nils Muižnieks, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Belarusia
Join the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L), The Law Society and the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights on 24 January 2025 from 15.00 – 16.30 CET for an online event marking the International Day Of The EndangeredLawyer. Register here: tinyurl.com/bdernb6y
Keynote speech: • Margaret Satterthwaite, UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Moderator: • Tony Fisher, Chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales Panel discussion: • Illia Salei, Belarusian lawyer in exile, UK solicitor • Vaida Rudenaite, Senior Legal Advisor, Lithuanian Ministry of Justice • Karinna Moskalenko, Chair, UN Independent Expert Group on Belarus • Elena Shinkarevich, Belarusian Association of Human Rights Lawyers • Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, Director, IBAHRI
Closing remarks: • Nils Muižnieks, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Belarusia
The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. "He has to start being more proactive and to find a real solution to this situation, not stay in standby without interfering. It's a very irresponsible position from the owner of Telegram," she said. NEWS However, the perpetrators of such frauds are now adopting new methods and technologies to defraud the investors.
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