When a prominent Syrian human rights lawyer was imprisoned in 2009, lawyers from Hogan Lovells teamed up with Freedom Now to seek justice on his behalf.

Partner Marc Gottridge and associate Jason Porta collaborated with the nonprofit in a successful petition to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which in October ruled that Muhannad Al-Hassani’s imprisonment was illegal and that he was entitled to reparations.

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