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 […]
Category archives: Press releases
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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
European Lawyers report Massive Human Rights Violations in Diyarbakir (Turkey)
London/Düsseldorf, 25th January 2016 Press Release: European Lawyers report Massive Human Rights Violations in Diyarbakir (Turkey) due to curfew –immediate international action needed A delegation* of 10 lawyers from Austria, Belgium, Germany, and Italy visited Diyarbakir, Turkey, from 21st to 24th of January 2016 to monitor the impact of the curfew on the population. The […]