European Democratic Lawyers
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 été interpellés à Istanbul et […]
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A new Facebook site informs of the situation of Ayse Acinikli and Ramazan Demir in prison since the 16th of March.
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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 et interprétés hors de leur […]
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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 the ÇHD (Çağdaş Hukukçular Derneği) […]
Read moreThe 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
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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) follows, the situation in Turkey […]
Read moreOur Spanish colleague has published an article on the situation of fundamental rights in Spain: Read here
Read moreA delegation with members of the AED visited Kurdistan last January, here is the report of the Italian members. To read here.
Read moreThe French Syndicat des Avocats de France takes position on the state of emergency and the constitutional reform. Dans une République où le pouvoir législatif est déjà soumis à l’exécutif, ces mesures sont de nature à transformer profondément notre démocratie en régime arbitraire. Read more
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Last January, a conference took place in Rome discussing the latest legal developments in Europe. This Italian website contains many other conferences to see and trials to hear.
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