The Athens Bar Association expresses its strong protest against the illegal and arbitrary detention for questioning of lawyers

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ATHENS BAR ASSOCIATION
Academias 60, 10679 Athens
Tel 210-33.98.270, 71
Athens, 24.1.2012

ANNOUNCEMENT

The Athens Bar Association expresses its strong protest against the illegal and arbitrary detention for questioning of lawyers, who protested outside the Turkish Embassy against the arrests of 39 Kurdish lawyers, human rights defenders, in the framework of a respective EU-wide day of protest.

The ABA will proceed to a relevant objection demarche to the Minister of Citizens’ Protection, the Minister of Justice and the General Police Directorate.

The President
John D. Adamopoulos

See the official announcement in Greek here