7th till 11th March 2013 Press Release Fact-Finding Mission in Turkey A group of 8 lawyers from different European Countries (Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Switzerland), from Egypt, and the U.S.A. are visiting Turkey from 7th till 12th March to investigate the circumstances of the recent wave of arrests of lawyers and trade unionist. The lawyers …
Press Release European Lawyers Protest against new wave of mass arrests of Turkish Lawyers ELDH expresses its utmost concern about the new mass arrests of Lawyers in Turkey. According to the Turkish media police forces launched raids in seven provinces early this morning against the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), an organisation which is listed …
European lawyers demand: Basque lawyers in Spain must enjoy the free exercise of their professional duties During the last two decades more than 20 Basque lawyers in Spain have been kept in pre-trial detention, several of them up to almost 2 years. All the arrested lawyers were charged with terrorist crimes connected with ETA, or …
ELDH Statement (update) After observing several KCK mass trials in Istanbul ELDH has updated its statement against ongoing arrests and mass trials in Turkey. The ELDH statement (PDF)
Pressemitteilung zum Tag der Menschenrechte am 10.12.2012 Mehrere Organisationen kritisieren die Haftbedingungen für Nasrin Sotoudeh und fordern deren Freilassung. Heute am Tag der Menschenrechte rufen mehrere Organisationen die iranische Führung zur Freilassung und zum Schutz der Rechtsanwältin Nasrin Sotoudeh auf. Frau Sotoudeh ist seit 26 Monaten im Iran auf Grund ihrer Menschenrechtsarbeit in Haft. Aufgrund …
ELDH Press Release As Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights we express deep worries about the current attempts of the Egyptian administration to establish a non-secular constitution and to restrict basic Human Rights, Freedom of Expression and Independence of Justice. On the 22nd of November 2012 President Morsi issued a constitutional declaration which leaves all …
IADL CONDEMNS ILLEGAL ISRAELI AGGRESSION IN GAZA IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS AND CALLS UPON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO END ISRAEL’S IMPUNITY AND TO TAKE CONCRETE ACTIONS TO END THE VIOLENCE. The folllowing statement has been issued by the International Association of Democratic lawyers (IADL): The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), with consultative status …
6th November 2012, Instanbul (Silivri) Joint declaration of the undersigning organisations: We, as international lawyers representing the undersigned organisations, were in Silivri (Turkey) to observe the continuation of the trial of our colleagues: 46 Kurdish lawyers and 3 members of their staff. We summarise our concerns around the following issues; The first hearing for this …
by Prof. em. Dr. Norman Paech, Hamburg Laudation for Gareth Peirce (solicitor, London) on the Occasion of the Awarding of the Hans Litten Preis in 2012 Frankfurt am Main, 15 September 2012 Dear Gareth Peirce, dear colleagues, dear friends may I warmly welcome all of you to Frankfurt and to the German member organization of …
Invitation ELDH Trial observation – Training/Workshop – 27th October 2012, 10h00 – 14h00 Bern (Switzerland) Hotel Kreuz Bern AG, Zeughausgasse 41, Postfach, CH-3000 Bern 7 Tel. +41 (0)31 329 95 95, Fax +41 (0)31 329 95 96, The training The training is in particular for lawyers (and also human rights activists) who are interested …