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Statement from the ECBA Human Rights Officer on the arrest of lawyers Naim Eminoğlu and Doğa İncesu in Türkiye - July 2024
ECBA Opinion on Proposal for a Regulation on the transfer of proceedings COM (2023) 185 final - 2023/0093 (COD) - March 2024
Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2024 - Iran - 24 January 2024
ECBA Statement supporting Belarusian imprisoned lawyers - November 2023
ECBA Statement on the new proposed Directive on Combating Corruption  - November 2023
ECBA on the protection of the work of members of the Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA) - May 2023
Common call to free five human rights defenders unjustly imprisoned in Burundi - March 2023
Urgent request for intervention in favour of Iranian lawyer Reza Khandan - March 2023
Open Letter of the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) in respect of the preliminary ruling in Case C-281/22, GK and Others, lodged at 25 April 2022, by the Oberlandesgericht Wien, Austria
ECBA HRC disapproves the default conviction of the Olympian medalist Herasimenia and the lack of fair trials against dissidents in Belarus - January 2023
ECBA HRC Statement about detained French-Palestinian Lawyer Salah Hamouri - December 2022
ECBA HRC is concerned about the situation in Iran - October 2022
ECBA Statement on mutual recognition of extradition decisions - June 2022
Free the Gezi defendants! - joint statement in favour of Turkish human rights activists - April 2022
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
The ECBA condemns the invasion of Ukraine by Russia - February 2022
ECBA Chair co-signs letter urging the UN to open query into Iran's 1988 killings and Raisi role - January 2022
ECBA signs Statement regarding the 2022 Day of the Endangered Lawyer - January 2022
The ECBA  Human Rights Committee stands in Solidarity with Egyptian lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer, December 2021
Joint call in support of endangered lawyers in Afghanistan, November 2021
ECBA Response to Commission Non-paper on Detention Conditions and Procedural Rights in Pre-Trial Detention - October 2021
The ECBA stands by the prosecuted Turkish lawyers, September 2021
The Philippines: attacks against lawyers further escalating - joint statement, July 2021
The ECBA signed the first “International Fair Trial Day” (IFTD) statement, June 2021
Joint statement on the Russian state’s measures against lawyer Ivan Pavlov, May 2021
ECBA HRC statement on the case of the lawyer Robert Roșu, May 2021
ECBA HRC Statement regarding the situation of the defense lawyers in Myanmar, March 2021
The ECBA signed the Joint Petition for the Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2021, focusing this year on Azerbaijan, January 2021
ECBA Statement on Human Rights Lawyer Tahir Elçi’s Murder, December 2020
Joint Statement in solidarity with colleague Nasrin Sotoudeh and others, December 2020
Joint Statement to demand Justice for the killing of human rights lawyer Tahir Elçi, November 2020
ECBA Statement on video-conferencing in criminal cases, October 2020
The ECBA expresses its concern over the proceedings against Judge Tuleya, October 2020
ECBA's response on proposals E-evidence, February 2019
ECBA Human Rights Committee Statement regarding crackdown on protesters in Belarus, August 2020
ECBA Statement regarding the recent sentencing of Iranian Human Rights Lawyer, October 2019
Making Eurojust more efficient and effective, November 2018
More effective mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders, November 2018
The Human Rights Committee - Going beyond Brexit, June 2017
Joint statement on the possible reinstatement of the death penalty in Turkey, October 2016
Human Rights in Turkey: Letter to Mr. Schulz, President of the European Parliament, May 2016
Yea Rights! – The Legal Impact of Repealing the Human Rights Act, March 2016
ECBA Response to proposed Directive on The Presumption of Innocence ECBA Plea to EU Politics: Follow the Rule of Law – Human rights should not be negotiable, November 2014
ECBA comments and recommendations following the proposed instruments on legal aid published by the European Commission in November 2013
ECBA reply on the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on procedural safeguards for children suspected or accused in criminal proceedings, 6 May 2014
Joint letter on Pre-trial detention to Vice-President Reding of the European Commission, September 2013
ECBA Press Release on EPPO Proposal, August 2013
ECBA Touchstones - Minimum Standards for the right to Legal Aid (Measure C part 2), June 2013
ECBA press release – LIBE vote on Directive on access to a lawyer - June 2013
New ECBA Statement on Measure E, May 2013
Joint briefing on the Directive on the right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings and the right to inform a third party upon deprivation of liberty, April 2013
ECBA Cornerstones on a European Public Prosecutor’s Office (“EPPO”) – Art. 86 TFEU, February 2013
ECBA Statement on the Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and the Council on freezing and confiscation of proceeds in crime in the European Union, October 2012
Joint letter on pre-trial detention - June 2012
ECBA cornestones on Access to a lawyer in Criminal Proceedings, June 2012
Joint Statement of nine organisations on Measure C1, May 2012
Pre-trial Emergency Defence Project, April 2012
ECBA response on a Green Paper on detention, November 2011
Open Letter regarding the Draft Directive on the Right to have Access to a lawyer, September 2011
ECBA Statement on the Draft Directive on Victim’s Rights, November 2011
ECBA statement as to the public consultation of the EC on the functioning of regulation 1/2003, July 2011
ECBA Statement on the Draft Directive on the Right to have Access to a Lawyer, September 2011
Statement on the Member State initiative regarding the European Investigation Order in Criminal Matters, June 2011
Open Letter to the Minister of Justice of Belarus, March 2011
UK’s Extradition Review - ECBA view, March 2011
Open Letter on Procedural Proceedings - Measure B, March 2011
Open Letter from the ECBA - Conflict of Jurisdiction, May 2009
In Absentia Judgement - ECBA Press Release, May 2008
In absentia judgements - ECBA Open Letter to all Members of the European Parliament, July 2008
Statement of the ECBA on the Greenpaper Presumption of Innocence, July 2006
ECBA Letter to Commissioner Frattini, March 2006
ECBA Letter to Alberto Costa, March 2006
ECBA-View – Presentation of Taru and Holger in Paris 2004