10ème COLLOQUE ANNUEL le 15 mars 2013 PROGRESS Lawyers Network Maison des Associations Internationales Rue Washington 40, 1050 BRUXELLES Sous l’Ancien Régime, la prison n’était qu’une mesure transitoire en attente du châtiment: peine de mort et autres peines corporelles. Aujourd’hui la prison s’est imposée comme la peine centrale au sein du système répressif. Les prisons …
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 …
Europäische JuristInnen fordern: das Recht baskischer Anwältinnen und Anwälte in Spanien auf freie Berufsausübung muss respektiert werden Während der letzten zwei Jahrzente wurden mehr als 20 baskische Anwältinnen und Anwälte in Spanien in Untersuchungshaft genommen, mehrere von ihnen bis zu fast 2 Jahren. Allen verhafteten Anwältinnen und Anwälte wurden terroristische Verbrechen in Verbindung mit der …
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 …