The Day of the Endangered Lawyer is an initiative started by AED‐EDL in 2010, on behalf of the lawyers of Iran. The date of 24 January was chosen in remembrance of the assassination of 4 trade union lawyers and one employee in Atocha Street of Madrid in 1977 (Massacre of Atocha), during the Spanish transiciòn after the death of the dictator Franco (in 1975).
The countries denounced have been: Iran, Turkey, the Basque country, the Philipines, Colombia, Honduras…
On the 24th of January 2023 our initiative will be dedicated to the plight of Afghan lawyers, especially after the US left the country to the Taliban.