Trial observations – Turkey – February 2026
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ELDH Statement on the Intensification of Unilateral Coercive Measures against Cuba
Download the statement The European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH) strongly condemns the recent decision adopted by the United States administration under former President Donald Trump intensifying unilateral coercive measures against the Republic of Cuba, including the imposition of sanctions and punitive tariffs with extraterritorial effect targeting third States supplying fuel and energy …
Pakistan: Arbitrary arrest and sentencing of human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha
The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the arbitrary arrest and subsequent conviction of Pakistani human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha and call for their immediate release and measures to ensure the conviction is set aside. On 24 January, a District and Sessions Court in Islamabad sentenced the lawyers to 17 years’ imprisonment …
ELDH Statement: On the escalating violations of international law and the threat to Kurdish population in North and East Syria (Rojava)
Download the statement The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) expresses its grave concern over the renewed and escalating attacks against Kurdish populations in North and East Syria (Rojava). These attacks constitute serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law and place entire communities at imminent risk. …
Turkey: Drop Bogus Charges against Istanbul Bar Association Leadership (Joint Statement)
The continued prosecution of the president and 10 executive board members of the Istanbul Bar Association, and the prosecutor’s request for their conviction on terrorism charges are a damning reflection of the troubled state of the rule of law and democratic norms in Turkey today, 38 human rights and lawyers’ organisations said today. They called …
On the Illegal Act of Aggression by the United States Against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Download the statement We strongly and unequivocally condemn the acts of aggression carried out by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. These actions constitute a grave and flagrant violation of international law, undermine the international legal order, and pose a serious threat to international peace and security. Violations of the United Nations …
Protest against the detention of lawyer and human rights defender Ayachi Hammami
Tunisia: The international legal community condemns the detention of lawyer and human rights defender Ayachi Hammami 16 December, 2025 The 23 undersigned legal organisations express their deep concern following the arbitrary detention and conviction on 2 December 2025 in Tunisia of lawyer and human rights defender Ayachi Hammami, sentenced to five years in prison solely …
Urgent Joint Call for the Immediate Release of Lawyer Naim Eminoğlu
Download the statement (in English) (in Turkish) We express our deep concern over the police operation conducted on the morning of 10 December 2026 against the People’s Law Office and the arrest of lawyer Naim Eminoğlu, a board member of the Progressive Lawyers’ Association – (ÇHD) Istanbul Branch and an active member of the association’s …
Report – 50 years of Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara
CODESA – Press Release The Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders in Western Sahara (CODESA) announces the conclusion of its international campaign organized on the 50th anniversary of the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara.This campaign aimed to recall and denounce the continued perpetration by the Moroccan occupation force of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and …
ELDH condemns the US threat to close Venezuelan airspace
The declaration by U.S. President Donald J. Trump purporting to “close” Venezuelan airspace is not merely legally baseless—it is a blatant and unlawful assertion of extraterritorial authority, incompatible with the most fundamental principles of the international legal order. No State, under any circumstance short of a United Nations Security Council mandate or the express consent …