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, co-President of the National Association of Democratic Jurists (Associazione Nazionale Giuristi Democratici, Italy) and member of the ELDH Executive Committee. For …
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 …
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 Hearing of 26 June 2026, Istanbul Observed by Louis Lemkow, ELDH Barcelona Download the report Lawyer …
Human Rights Violations, Settler-Colonial Transformation, and the Absence of International Monitoring in Western Sahara.
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, 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 …
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 …
The Independent Legal Mission on the Peace Process in Türkiye (the Mission) is an initiative established under the auspices of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human …