Palestine – statements, articles

IADL condemns Israeli attacks on unarmed civilians in the Gaza Strip IADL statement *** Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, regarding the worsening situation in Gaza https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=180408-otp-stat *** Jerusalem oder der Kampf um den jüdischen Staat Wie die israelische Politik den Untergang des jüdischen Staates selbst herbeiführt. Von Norman Paech …

Syria airstrikes violated international law: German parliamentary report

The German government supported the airstrikes by the US, UK and France in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack. But a new report has said the airstrikes infringed upon international law. The report of the legal service of the Deutsche Bundestag (download PDF-file in German) Statement of German scientists (download PDF-file in English) Report …

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Turkey and Kurds

A session of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal on alleged violations of international law and international humanitarian law by the Turkish Republic and its officials in their relations with the Kurdish people and their organisations will be held in Paris (France) on 15 and 16 March 2018. A panel of judges will examine an indictment served …

ELDH statement for the release of Ahed Tamini

ELDH joins colleagues and comrades across the world in condemning Israel’s arrest of Ahed Tamimi and demanding her immediate release. On 16th December 2017, Ahed and her cousin Nour crossed Ahed’s yard in the village of Nabi Saleh in Palestine’s occupied West Bank, approaching the Israeli soldiers who were standing at the gate. Ahed’s mother …

ELDH calls on the EU and the EU member states – to condemn the Turkish attack on Afrin (Northern Syria)

Appeal of European Lawyers download the ELDH statement (PDF-file) the statement of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers IADL ELDH calls on the EU, and all other world powers, to condemn Turkey’s unprovoked attack on the people of Afrin in Syria. This amounts to a war crime (aggression) and commission of crimes against humanity. Afrin, …

Solidarity with Egyptian lawyers

DAY OF THE ENDANGERED LAWYER Appeal to the Egyptian Government – Respect the rights of Egyptian lawyers In 2017 ELDH, with members in 20 countries, already choose to focus its activities on the endangered lawyers in Egypt. Many human rights organizations, among them Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, IDHAE, and the International Commission of Jurists …