Falana, president of the West African Bar Association, will receive his award in October during this year's International Bar Association conference in Buenos Aires. The biannual award, instituted in 1995 to honour English solicitor Bernard Simons, honours an exceptional lawyer in human rights and criminal law.

Falana was the MFWA's counsel in the ECOWAS Community Court's June 2008 judgment in the case of Chief Ebrima Manneh, a "disappeared" journalist, against the Gambian government. He is also representing the MFWA in an ECOWAS torture case against Gambia. He has already won several awards, including from the American Bar Association in 1996 and the International League for Human Rights in 2000.

See the MWFA announcement at here.

Article published courtesy of IFEX.

[21 Aug 2008 09:25]

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