The European Criminal Bar Association mourns the passing of Robert Badinter in France, a towering...
Guido Athmer
Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2024 – Iran – 24 January 2024
19 Jan 2024 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The ECBA co-signed a statement, a report and a petition on the occasion of the Day...
Urgent request for intervention in favour of Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh (Joint Statement) – November 2023
1 Dec 2023 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The European Criminal Association joins the call and signs the statement to take concrete and...
ECBA intervenes before US Military Court against evidence obtained through torture – September 2023
28 Sep 2023 | Death Penalty Opposition, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee
The European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) has intervened as a third party in a significant case...
ECBA signs petition for China to release human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and end the practice of enforced disappearances – August 2023
6 Aug 2023 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
ECBA and other different human rights and justice organisations call on the Chinese authorities to...
ECBA on the protection of the work of members of the Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA) – May 2023
10 May 2023 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The ECBA publishes its resolution adopted on 6 May 2023, in Warsaw, on the protection of the work...
Common call to free five human rights defenders unjustly imprisoned in Burundi – March 2023
29 Mar 2023 | Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
On Tuesday 14 February 2023, five prominent human rights defenders, leading figures in Burundian...
Urgent request for intervention in favour of Iranian lawyer Reza Khandan – March 2023
2 Mar 2023 | Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The ECBA co-signed an urgent request to intervene in favour of persecuted Iranian lawyer Reza...
Statement in support of the Turkish lawyer Günay Dağ – February 2023
10 Feb 2023 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee
The ECBA co-signed the Statement issued in support of the Turkish lawyer Günay Dağ. Günay Dağ is a...
Day of the Endangered Lawyer 24 January 2023 – Afghanistan
23 Jan 2023 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
Since 2010, the International Day of the Endangered Lawyer has been observed on 24 January in...
ECBA HRC disapproves the default conviction of the Olympian medalist Herasimenia and the lack of fair trials against dissidents in Belarus – January 2023
10 Jan 2023 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The ECBA Human Rights Committee would like to express its growing concern about the situation...
ECBA HRC Statement about detained French-Palestinian Lawyer Salah Hamouri – December 2022
12 Dec 2022 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee
The ECBA has received credible reports that our colleague Salah Hamouri, a French-Palestinian...
ECBA HRC is concerned about the situation in Iran – October 2022
31 Oct 2022 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
We are extremely concerned about the repression suffered by many Iranian lawyers, following the...
ECBA HR Officer at the ECHR hearing in the case Pietrzak v. Poland and Bychawska-Siniarska and Others v. Poland/Hearing – September 2022
29 Sep 2022 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The ECBA, represented by its Human Rights Officer Alexis Anagnostakis, appeared before...
ECBA Statement on mutual recognition of extradition decisions – June 2022
27 Jun 2022 | EAW, Extradition, International Co-operation, INTERPOL
Across Europe, persons who have been successful in challenging INTERPOL red notices, extradition...
Free the Gezi defendants! – joint statement in favour of Turkish human rights activists – April 2022
29 Apr 2022 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The ECBA signed a joint statement issued at the initiative of the European Association of Lawyers...
The ECBA calls with Fair Trials, EDRi and civil society on the EU Council, EU Parliament and EU states to ban predictive systems in policing & criminal justice – March 2022
16 Mar 2022 | Cybercrime, Tech & AI, E-Justice, AI & Lawtech, Evidence, Improving Justice, Procedural Safeguards
The ECBA joins the Fair Trials and European Digital Rights initiative and civil society call...
The ECBA condemns the invasion of Ukraine by Russia – February 2022
28 Feb 2022 | Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The ECBA issues a Statement condemning the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, calling for the end of...
ECBA Chair co-signs letter urging the UN to open query into Iran’s 1988 killings and Raisi role – January 2022
4 Feb 2022 | Death Penalty Opposition, Human Rights Committee
Vincent Asselineau, the ECBA Chair, joined hundreds of prominent jurists, former U.N. judges and...
The European Court of Human Rights – change of the time-limit for lodging an application with the Court – January 2022
25 Jan 2022 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
Marialena Tsirli, Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights, announces the change of the...
ECBA signs Statement regarding the 2022 Day of the Endangered Lawyer – January 2022
17 Jan 2022 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The ECBA Human Rights Committee co-signs a Statement regarding the Day of the Endangered...
Request for leave to intervene before the UN Human Rights Committee, December 2021
22 Dec 2021 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee
The ECBA Human Rights Committee decided to submit a Request for leave to intervene before the UN...
The ECBA Human Rights Committee stands in Solidarity with Egyptian lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer, December 2021
17 Dec 2021 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The ECBA Human Rights Committee, along with members of the global legal community, signed a Joint...
Report on detained Turkish lawyers by Maria Hessen Jacobsen – November 2021
15 Nov 2021 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee
Norwegian lawyer Maria Hessen Jacobsen was on a legal study assignment in Istanbul on behalf of...
Joint call in support of endangered lawyers in Afghanistan – November 2021
9 Nov 2021 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
Following the recent worrying developments in Afghanistan, many European legal organisations...
ECBA Response to Commission Non-paper on Detention Conditions and Procedural Rights in Pre-Trial Detention – October 2021
7 Oct 2021 | Detention, Procedural Safeguards
On 6 October 2021 the ECBA issued a response to the Commission non-paper on detention conditions...
The ECBA stands by the prosecuted Turkish lawyers – September 2021
20 Sep 2021 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee
The ECBA participated to a Legal Fact Finding mission in Istanbul from 15 to 20 September 2021,...
The Philippines: attacks against lawyers further escalating – joint statement – July 2021
2 Jul 2021 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
Together with 30 lawyers’ organizations, bar associations and human rights organisations, the...
The ECBA signed the first “International Fair Trial Day” (IFTD) statement – June 2021
17 Jun 2021 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee
The first annual “International Fair Trial Day” (IFTD) took place this 14 June 2021. Several...
Ruling on the Right to Access to a Lawyer Directive by Dutch Court of Discipline – June 2021
16 Jun 2021 | Legal Assistance & Legal Aid, Procedural Safeguards
A ruling on the Right to Access to a Lawyer Directive (2013/48/EU) by a Dutch Court of Discipline...