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 […]
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On Migration
The Bureau of the association of European Democratic Lawyers (AED-EDL), meeting in Athens on May 7th, 2016, in view of the flagrant violation of fundamental rights by member states of the EU as well as by the Greek state and of the constant influx of people in need of International Protection, has decided to release […]
Greek Lawyers on Strike
The association of European Democratic Lawyers (AED) has been informed during their meeting in Athens on the 7th of May 2016 of the strike of lawyers in Greece since January 2016. The conditions of the exercise of the legal profession are seriously threatened by austerity measures. The A.E.D. recalls that the right of defense […]
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 […]
Support group for Istanbul imprisoned lawyers
A new Facebook site informs of the situation of Ayse Acinikli and Ramazan Demir in prison since the 16th of March.
Les “Panama Papers” et l’importance de sauvegarder la liberté de presse en Europe
Mossack Fonseca, le cabinet d’avocats panaméen au centre du scandale et dont proviennent les Panama Papers, a répondu aux requêtes des journalistes en concluant avec une mise en garde explicite : « Il semble que vous ayez eu accès de façon non autorisée à des documents et des informations appartenant à notre entreprise et les ayez présentés […]
Report: Lawyer’s Delegation to Kurdistan (jan.2016)
From 21 to 24 of January 2016, a delegation of 10 lawyers from Austria, Belgium, Germany and Italy visited Diyarbakır, Turkey. The mission was coordinated by two European lawyers’ organizations—the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH) and European Democratic Lawyers (EDL)—and the Unione delle Camere Penali Italiane. It was supported by […]
Titiriteros- Puppeteers
The AED fully sustains ALA in its work- it has denounced the Judge Ismael Moreno who ordered the detention of three puppeteers as preventive measure. Read the news article in Diagonal here and read the opinion of ALA here
Turkish Lawyers detained
AED Statement concerning the detention of the lawyers Ramazan Demir, İrfan Arasan, Ayşe Acinikli, Hüseyin Boğatekin, Şefik Çelik, Adem Çalışçı, Ayşe Başar, Tamer Doğan and Mustafa Ruzgar (16th of March 2016, Istanbul) and previously the detention of the “Academics for peace”. Amongst the different cases related to human rights that AED/EDL (Avocats Européens Démocrates/Europeans Democratic Lawyers) […]
Estado de excepción permanente
Our Spanish colleague has published an article on the situation of fundamental rights in Spain: Read here