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Urgent International Joint Call for the Immediate Release of Lawyers Semra Demir, Kürşat Bafra and Doğa İncesu
We, the undersigned organizations, express our deep concern over the simultaneous pre-dawn police raids conducted in Ankara and Istanbul on the morning of June 23, 2026, which resulted in numerous …
ELDH mourns the passing of the lawyer Aurora D’Agostino
ELDH mourns the passing of the lawyer Aurora D’Agostino, co-President of the National Association of Democratic Jurists (Associazione Nazionale Giuristi Democratici, Italy) and member of the ELDH Executive Committee. For …
CJEU Judgment on the Spanish Amnesty Law
ELDH Welcomes the CJEU Judgment on the Spanish Amnesty Law and Calls for the Definitive Closure of the Judicialisation of the Catalan Political Conflict The European Association of Lawyers for …
Statement on the Critical Situation of Sahrawi Human Rights Defender Naama Asfari
Download the statement The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) expresses its profound concern over reports regarding the critical health condition of Sahrawi human rights …
Case concerning allegations of police torture, ill-treatment and unlawful arrest against lawyer Murat Çelik – report
Hearing of 26 June 2026, Istanbul Observed by Louis Lemkow, ELDH Barcelona Download the report Lawyer Murat Çelik, a former member of the Executive Board of the Istanbul Bar Association …
ELDH Report : WESTERN SAHARA, 50 YEARS UNDER OCCUPATION
Human Rights Violations, Settler-Colonial Transformation, and the Absence of International Monitoring in Western Sahara.
ELDH Statement on Palestinian Children Report
Download the statement ELDH Statement Supporting the Findings and Recommendations of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, on the Deliberate …
Lawyer Murat Çelik case
Lawyer Murat Çelik, a former member of the Istanbul Bar Association Executive Board and one of the former presidents of ÇHD, was subjected to torture and detained with reverse handcuffing at …
ELDH Statement on Migration
Download the statement In recent years, the expansion of racist and xenophobic policies, combined with the increasing dominance of national security rhetoric, has placed the right to migrate and to …