To: ANTALYA CHIEF PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE (ANTALYA CUMHURİYET BAŞSAVCILIĞI’NA) 2016/69739 No. Fax Number: + 90 242 237 11 11 (Turkey) Créteil, Barcelona and Amsterdam, October 24, 2016. European Democratic Lawyers (AED-EDL) are very concerned about the news that the former director member of ÇHD Antalya – Çağdaş Hukukçular -Progressive Lawyers Association, the advocate Özden […]
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Statement regarding the attack on the lawyer Günay Dag
The member of the Istanbul branch of ÇHD, lawyer Günay Dag, was subjected to torture a few days ago by guards of Maltepe juvenile’s prison acting under the orders of the prison governor while visiting one of his clients. His head was rammed against the wall and on the ground and as a result his […]
Le déficit démocratique aujourd’hui en Turquie:
Des autocrates au pouvoir et de la répression. Dès le 15 juin dernier plus de 40.000 personnes sont en prison, d’entre les 100.000 détenus à cause d’un Coup d’État qui reste une énigme politique de premier ordre. Actuellement on peut dire que : Il existe une manipulation de tout mass media et la fermeture de maints […]
Statement on the possible reinstatement of the death penalty in Turkey
The right to life is guaranteed by all major international and regional human rights treaties. The European Court of Human Rights has interpreted the right to life as “an inalienable attribute of human beings” and a “supreme value in the international hierarchy of human rights”.[1] The undersigned organisations believe that the abolition of the death […]
European Lawyers demand: release MUNİP ERMIS immediately!
The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) and the European Democratic Lawyers (AED-EDL) are gravely concerned about the news that the Vice President of CHD – Çağdaş Hukukçular Derneği – (Progressive Lawyers Association), lawyer Münip Ermiş was taken into custody this morning. His house and his office were searched. His is the one […]
Lawyers in Danger in Honduras
Read the report on Honduras here
Attentats au Pakistan, les talibans font un carnage parmi les avocats.
Rassemblés devant les urgences de l’hôpital pour rendre un ultime homage au Baronnier Bilal Answar Kasi, assassiné la veille, les avocats de la ville de Quéta dans la province du Baloutchistan, l’une des plus violentes du pays, ont été pris pour cible par un kamikaze qui s’est fait explosé au milieu de la foule. Le […]
Migrants outlawed- International Conference
International Conference SAF / AED on the 23rd and 24th of September 2016 Free movement within Europe … this ideal seems to be receding day by day, European governments are unable to implement a common policy for the accommodation of migrants and are taking instead increasingly hard and inhumane measures of expulsion and repression. Faced […]
Update on Trials in Turkey
A colleague in Istanbul, the lawyer Elvan Olkun, has sent us an update of the trials taking place in Turkey at the moment: 1. Trial of the members of ÖHD (ÖZGÜRLÜKÇÜ HUKUKÇULAR DERNEĞI – ASSOCIATION OF LAWYERS FOR FREEDOM) 12 lawyers, members of ÖHD (Özgürlükçü Hukukçular Derneği – Association of Lawyers for Freedom) are being tried […]
L’AED dénonce le traitement infligé à l’avocat Bernard RIPERT
L’association des avocats européens démocrates (AED), informée de l’arrestation suivie de l’hospitalisation d’office dont a été victime ce 23 mai, Bernard RIPERT, avocat à Grenoble, exprime son indignation et ses plus vives préoccupations face au traitement infligé à notre confrère. L’annonce de la levée de son hospitalisation forcée décidée le 25 mai est un soulagement […]