On 10 April 2026, the ECBA and a coalition of 30 international legal organisations issued a formal...
Human Rights statements
ECBA Co-Signs Petitions in Support of Turkish Lawyers Mehmet Pehlivan and Günay Dağ – July 2025
11 Jul 2025 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) co-signed two petitions advocating for the immediate...
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...
Joint Statement by the international legal and human rights community on the actions against the Istanbul Bar Association – January 2025
30 Jan 2025 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The international legal and human rights community is deeply concerned by prosecuting authorities’...
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...
International Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2025 – 24 January, 15th edition
23 Jan 2025 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
In 2025 the International Day of the Endangered Lawyer focused on Belarus, chosen at the...
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 signs Joint Statement calling for the universal abolition of the death penalty – October 2024
10 Oct 2024 | Death Penalty Opposition, Human Rights Committee
The ECBA proudly joins international legal organizations in co-signing a crucial Joint Statement...
European Criminal Bar Association message on the passing of French lawyer Henri Leclerc – September 2024
24 Sep 2024 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee
The European Criminal Bar Association deeply mourns the loss of Henri Leclerc, a towering figure...
Statement from the ECBA Human Rights Officer on the arrest of lawyers Naim Eminoğlu and Doğa İncesu in Türkiye – July 2024
10 Jul 2024 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee
would like to express my profound concern over the arrest and detention of two lawyers, Naim...
ECBA successfully intervenes at the ECtHR in case Pietrzak vs Poland – June 2024
5 Jun 2024 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The European Court of Human Rights issued its judgment in the case Pietrzak and...
ECBA Statement of Support for the American College of Trial Lawyers – May 2024
20 May 2024 | Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The European Criminal Bar Association stands in solidarity with the American College of Trial...
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...
ECBA Statement regarding the loss of lawyer Robert Badinter – February 2024
20 Feb 2024 | Death Penalty Opposition, Human Rights Committee, Human Rights Recognition
The European Criminal Bar Association mourns the passing of Robert Badinter in France, a towering...
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...
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 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...