Archive – ELDH

The International Legal Community Condemns the Detention of Attorney Şiar Rişvanoğlu

ThSchmidt — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:38:38 +0000

The undersigned organizations vehemently condemn the detention of Attorney Şiar Rişvanoğlu, who is registered with the Adana Bar Association and a member of the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD), following a police raid on his residence and subsequent arrest at the Çukurova airport in Tarsus. On the morning of 26 November 2024, authorities executed a raid ...

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Lawyers warn: Stop the War against Iraq!

Friedrich Bonnmann — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 17:00:09 +0000

Appeal to the European Governments and the UN Security Council USA plans illegal military attack A war against Iraq that aims to abolish the Government or to destruct Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction would mean a grave violation of international law, in particular of Art. 39 of the Charter of the United Nations. It would ...

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The demand of Turkey for membership in the EU

Friedrich Bonnmann — Sat, 01 Apr 2000 16:13:33 +0000

Declaration of the ELDH on the demand of Turkey for membership in the EU Result of a fact finding mission in Turkey in April 2000 In the beginning of April this year 14 lawyers from France, Germany and Italy stayed in Turkey. Being invited by the local bar associations, by the lawyer’s magazine “Acic Sayfa” ...

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The situation in Turkish prisons

Friedrich Bonnmann — Thu, 01 Jun 1995 16:12:28 +0000

Declaration of the EALDH on the situation in Turkish prisons We, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights, utterly condemn the military storming of prisons in Turkey. The storming of several prisons and the killing of a great number of unarmed prisoners violate the rule of law. The hunger strikers were ...

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Lawyers for Palestine

Friedrich Bonnmann — Thu, 01 Jun 1995 16:11:04 +0000

Each day, in Palestine and in all the Arab villages of Israel, children, young people, men and women are dying under the fire of the Israeli army and settlers. Others are rounded up, and ‘disappear’, are imprisoned and are tortured. This situation, which is in flagrant violation of international law, human rights and the most ...

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Practice of the Detention of Refugees

Friedrich Bonnmann — Thu, 01 Jun 1995 16:08:57 +0000

Appeal on the Practice of the Detention of Refugees. especially in the countries of the European Union The “Fortress Europe” works almost perfectly. With the Schengen and Dublin agreements as well as national legal restrictions, the countries of the rich Europe have created a “cordon sanitaire” against the migration and refugee movements at their borders ...

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To live and to work in a multicultural Europe

Friedrich Bonnmann — Thu, 01 Jun 1995 16:04:45 +0000

Thesis for a Manifesto For an open Immigration Policy – Intercultural Integration – Active Protection of Minorities – Antidiscrimination – For the Protection of Politically Pursued Persons in the European Union I. Immigration Policies in the European Union Increasingly, the states of the European Union coordinate their asylum and immigration policies and have made ...

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The use of embargo by the UN Security Council

Friedrich Bonnmann — Thu, 01 Jun 1995 16:03:03 +0000

Declaration concerning the use of the economic embargo The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights is deeply concerned about the increasingly frequent resort to the economic embargo as a measure of sanction by the United Nations Security Council, and about the concrete outcome of such embargoes when enforced. Although such embargoes ...

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