Ludovic-Trarieux Human Rights Prize to IHD Vice President Erbey
Ludovic-Trarieux Human Rights Prize to IHD Vice President Erbey
The Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize 2012 has been awarded to Human Rights Association (IHD) General Vice President and Diyarbakýr Branch Chair lawyer Muharrem Erbey who has been jailed in the scope of Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) investigation since December of 2009.
The prize which is given annually to a lawyer for contributions to the defence of human rights was first awarded to South African leader Nelson Mandela on 29 March 1985 during his imprisonment.
The award commemorates the memory of the French lawyer Ludovic Trarieux (1840-1904) who in the midst of the Dreyfus Affair in France in 1898 founded the “League for the Defence of Human Rights and the Citizen” which is at the basis of all leagues set up in the world and on the same model since then.
The prize will be presented in the German city of Berlin on 30 November by the German Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger.
During her most recent visit to Ankara, the German Minister criticized the imposition of ‘terrorist’ definition on people and ethnic groups defending their rights. The minister who also attended the KCK hearing in Diyarbakýr said the followings on the KCK case in Diyarbakýr; “150 people are standing trial and among them 95 are held in prison. This is not a case to be seen in a state of law.”
The prize which is given annually to a lawyer for contributions to the defence of human rights was first awarded to South African leader Nelson Mandela on 29 March 1985 during his imprisonment.
The award commemorates the memory of the French lawyer Ludovic Trarieux (1840-1904) who in the midst of the Dreyfus Affair in France in 1898 founded the “League for the Defence of Human Rights and the Citizen” which is at the basis of all leagues set up in the world and on the same model since then.
The prize will be presented in the German city of Berlin on 30 November by the German Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger.
During her most recent visit to Ankara, the German Minister criticized the imposition of ‘terrorist’ definition on people and ethnic groups defending their rights. The minister who also attended the KCK hearing in Diyarbakýr said the followings on the KCK case in Diyarbakýr; “150 people are standing trial and among them 95 are held in prison. This is not a case to be seen in a state of law.”
