European Lawyers: grave concern at the prosecution of the human rights activist Oleg Orlov
Download the statement The European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH), with members in 22 European countries, expresses its grave concern at the prosecution of the human rights activist Oleg Orlov, who will be brought to a criminal Court on 8 June 2023, and faces three year imprisonment. Orlov is co-chair of the Memorial…
No Criminalisation of Anti-Monarchists in UK
download the statement ELDH unequivocally condemns the arrests in London of anti-monarchist activists, hours before the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday 6 May. Graham Smith, CEO of Republic, the leading anti-monarchist NGO, stated that as Republic prepared for a peaceful and lawful protest, he and a number of Republic’s team were arrested and…
Statement – Lawyer’s Day in Turkey
Download the statement On today’s Lawyers’ Day in Turkey, we send our solidarity greetings to the lawyers in Turkey who risk their freedom and lives to stand up for democracy, the rule of law and human rights. We send our greetings to the lawyers of Çağdaş Hukukçular Derneği (ÇHD and Özgürlükçü Hukukçular Derneği (ÖHD) who…
PRESS RELEASE – 22 March 2023
International lawyers assert multiple breaches of human rights and international law by the UK Government in Northern Ireland ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. It is not the usual lawyers and activists based in Northern Ireland raising their concerns about human rights breaches by the UK Government in the region, but…
7th anniversary of the 2016 EU-Turkey Statement
in Turkish – in Greek March 18 2023 marks the 7th anniversary of the 2016 EU-Turkey Statement. In 2016, Turkey assumed the role of the European Union’s border guard. It received billions of Euros from the EU on the condition that it held migrants in Turkey and received those who were deported back. Turkey, however,…
Third Party Intervention against HDP dissolution
Preliminary report of the international trial observers following the trial against four of the “Moria 6”
I Introduction§1 From 8 to 12 September 2020, several fires completely destroyed the severely overcrowded Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos. One week after the fire, Notis Mitarakis, in his position as Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum, stated on CNN that six young men from Afghanistan had been arrested, and that these…
Turkey Earthquake Victims – Appeal for donations – for lawyers in Turkey
Our two member organizations in Turkey, Progressive Lawyers Association (CHD) and Lawyer Association of Freedom (ÖHD) have agreed with the Union of Bar Associations in Turkey (TTB) to conduct a fundraising campaign specifically for lawyers. If they survived and are not incapacitated, many of them are prevented from practicing their legal profession due to destruction…
Turkey’s terror list: An attack on lawyers and human rights
The undersigned organisations deplore the recent arbitrary designation of Günay Dağ as a “terrorist”. Günay Dağ is a lawyer at the International Bureau of the People’s Law Office and a member of the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD). On 30 December 2022, he was added to the list called “list of wanted terrorists” published on the…