On 10 April 2026, the ECBA and a coalition of 30 international legal organisations issued a formal...
Iran
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 regarding the recent sentencing of Iranian Human Rights Lawyer – October 2019
29 Oct 2019 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee
The ECBA Human Rights Committee would like to join other international voices and issue a...