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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 […]

On the current situation for asylum seekers in Greece

Last summer about 800.000 asylum seekers arrived in Greece. Until that moment most aslym seekers arrived through the land borders. After the fence has been build and other measures were taken (f.i. push backs) the stream of refugees started to arrived over sea. Most arrived on Lesbos or Chios. In the summer there was a […]

Letters to Turkey

The AED has sent some letters and is now waiting for an answer! Here is the text of the letter, addressed to the minister of Justice, the President of the Bar association, the ambassador of France in Turkey and the French minister of foreign affairs: Le 16 mars 2016, à l’aube, neuf avocats turcs ont […]