The European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) co-signed two petitions advocating for the immediate...
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United States Selected as Focus Country for the 15th International Day of the Endangered Lawyer – June 2025
19 Jun 2025 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The Coalition for the International Day of the Endangered Lawyer has designated the United States...
ECBA signs open letter to OHCHR against death penalty in Iran for Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani – January 2025
26 Jan 2025 | Death Penalty Opposition, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The ECBA and its Human Rights Officer, Alexis Anagnostakis, joined 302 distinguished international...
ECBA signs urgent request for intervention in favour of renowned Iranian human rights defender Reza Khandan – December 2024
17 Dec 2024 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
Reza Khandan, renowned Iranian human rights activist and husband of the iconic human rights lawyer...
ECBA Statement Condemning the Death in Custody of Aleksei Navalny and Urging for an International Inquiry – February 2024
20 Feb 2024 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The European Criminal Bar Association strongly condemns the tragic death of Aleksei Navalny, which...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
ECBA HRC statement on the case of the lawyer Robert Roșu – May 2021
13 May 2021 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
This statement concerns the case of the Romanian lawyer Robert Roșu, who was convicted by the High...
ECBA HRC Statement regarding the situation of the defence lawyers in Myanmar – March 2021
15 Mar 2021 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The ECBA Human Rights Committee wishes to express its solidarity with members of the legal...
ECBA Statement on Human Rights Lawyer Tahir Elçi’s Murder – December 2020
22 Dec 2020 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
Please click here for the Statement.
Joint Statement in solidarity with colleague Nasrin Sotoudeh and others – December 2020
4 Dec 2020 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
Please click here for a joint Statement undersigned by 26 Bar Associations (including the ECBA),...
The ECBA HRC sent an urgent request for intervention in favour of Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh – October 2020
5 Oct 2020 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The European Criminal Bar Association, on the initiative of the Italian Criminal Lawyers...
ECBA Statement on the death of the Turkish Lawyer on hunger strike – September 2020
2 Sep 2020 | Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
Today our name is Ebru Timtik. A black day for democracy and justice has dawned. The news of her...
ECBA Human Rights Committee Statement regarding crackdown on protesters in Belarus – August 2020
20 Aug 2020 | Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
Click here for the Statement. The Statement has been sent to the President of the Republic of...
Raising support – lawyers in the Philippines – September 2019
17 Sep 2019 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights
The ECBA has co-signed the petition initiated by Lawyers for Lawyers which has been co-signed by...