L’assemblée générale de l’AED qui s’est tenue à Nice a été l’occasion d’échanger sur la politique migratoire européenne, avec des activistes de l’association ROYA CITOYENNE, qui sont venus témoigner de la situation des migrants à la frontière franco-italienne. La vallée de la ROYA a été en effet, durant plusieurs mois, le théâtre d’une tragédie humaine […]
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On the isolated minors and activists of the Roya Valley
The General Assembly of the AED-EDL has been held in Nice on the 9th and 10th of February 2018 and has provided us with the opportunity to discuss European migration policy with activists from the association ROYA CITIZEN who have testified of the situation of migrants on the Franco-Italian border. For several months the ROYA […]
What is progressive lawyering?
Conclusions of the conference: 30 years of activism When I happen to be the last defender in a row, in trials with lots of participants, I often begin my closing argument saying that this looks like a double-edged sword: on the one hand one can refer to points already made, thus saving time, on […]
KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF TURKISH LAWYERS!
Since mid-September, these lawyers are detained in Ankara, Istanbul and Diyarbakır. The number of lawyers prosecuted in Turkey is 1343 after this last wave of raids against lawyers. 524 of them have been arrested since the staged coup attempt in July 2016. There are lawyers from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Catalonia, Belgium, Spain, […]
LES ORIGINES
Chers confrères, chers amis, Je me sens très honoré d’avoir été appelé à intervenir lors de cette célébration du 30e anniversaire de la fondation de l’AED. Cela signifie que mon intervention au moment de la célébration du 20e anniversaire, il y a dix ans à Paris, a été bien reçue, et cela me permet d’espérer […]
FREE OUR 14 COLLEAGUES
On the 21st of September, the AED-EDL will be demonstrating in front of the embassies in different European countries for the liberation of our 16 lawyer colleagues who are in detention since the 12th of September 2017. The news arriving from Turkey are very worrying. For the time being this is a list of the […]
Free our 16 colleagues
Free our 14 colleagues, members of ÇHD (Progressive Lawyers Association), arrested in Turkey: Barkın Timtik Ebru Timtik Süleyman Gökten Ezgi Çakır Ahmet Mandacı Yağmur Ereren Aytaç Ünsal Didem Baydar Ünsal Ayşegül Çağatay Engin Gökoğlu Behiç Aşçı Aycan Çiçek Şükriye Erden Özgür Yılmaz Zehra Özdemir Naciye Demir We have been informed that our […]
30 years of Activism
The association European Democratic Lawyers, AED-EDL is celebrating 30 years of work in defence of the rights of citizens. This federation of European lawyers has aimed at preserving the independence of lawyers with regard to any power, be it political, social, economic or ordinal. Much has changed since 1987:Back then, the European Union seemed to […]
Wenn Anwaelten die Verteidigung ihrer Mandanten zum Vorwurf gemacht wird
23. Juni 2017, 12:57 Antiterrorverfahren betreffen in der Türkei auch Verteidiger. Über die Bedeutung internationaler Prozessbeobachtung vor und nach dem Putschversuch 2016 Nach dem Putschversuch im Juli 2016 wurde in der Türkei der Ausnahmezustand ausgerufen. Zehntausende Beamte, darunter Richter und Staatsanwälte, wurden entlassen. Zwischen 80.000 und 90.000 Menschen wurden festgenommen. Die Haftbedingungen verletzen internationale Standards. […]
The day of the endangered lawyer 2017
The day of the Endangered Lawyer was dedicated to Chinese lawyers, who are victims of harassment due to their work. Berlin Milano Barcelona Paris