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download the statement The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH) is gravely concerned at the recent criminal trial in Spain of the ETA spokesperson Iratxe Sorzabal. We note that it was she who announced the end of ETA’s armed activity, and led to its dissolution. On 7-8 January 2022 the Special …
Download the Press Release The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (“the ELDH”) condemns the involvement of agents of the British Government in the killing of 11 people in South Belfast, as confirmed by the release of the Operation Achille Report on 8 February 2022. The ELDH strongly supports the right in …
download the statement The human tragedy at the EU border with Belarus is yet another example of the EU’s failed refugee policy. The criminal treatment of refugees in Croatia recently revealed by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), the countless drowned refugees in the Mediterranean and recently in the English Channel, and …
Sexual and gender-based violence (including domestic violence, sexual exploitation, forced marriage, genital mutilation, trafficking, discriminatory legislation, repudiation, deprivation of their children) pushes many women, girls and LGBTIQA+ people to flee their countries and seek asylum in Europe. These people are almost systematically exposed to violence and exploitation along the migration route: sexual violence by smugglers …
Dowload the statement The European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH) with members in 21 European countries, joins several United Nations Human Rights Special Rapporteurs, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and many humanitarian, development, human rights and faith organisations working to support the rights and welfare of the Palestinian people, to condemn the …
Download the statement This attack took place as part of a strong and extremely worrying rise of the fascist, racist and homophobic right in Europe. As such it must not be understood separately from various recent episodes, like the proposal of a series of EU governments to build, with EU finance , a separation wall …
Download statement ELDH is gravely concerned about several reports of cases in Turkey in which those responsible for ISIS crimes have not been adequately prosecuted and convicted. Just a few days ago Turkey’s Constitutional Court rejected an application demanding the prosecution of public officials over their negligence in the Suruç massacre. Turkish lawyers in the …
Download the statement (PDF) ELDH condemns the decision of the Locri tribunal to inflict a criminal sentence of 13 years and two months on the former mayor of Riace, Domenico Lucano. This is another shocking example of the criminalisation of refugees and their supporters by Italian judges, and also of the abuse of courts for …
Press release issued by the legal Fact Finding Mission, taking place in Istanbul from 15 September to 20 September, to monitor and observe current mass trials against lawyers in Turkey. Download the press release A group of approximately 30 lawyers from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland, representing international organizations, bar …
On the 27th of August 2020 we lost our colleague, sister and comrade EBRU TIMTIK, killed as a result of denial of justice by the Turkish regime, after 238 days on hunger strike. We do not forget and we do not forgive her killing. We do not forget our colleagues and all the human rights activists still …