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THE LUDOVIC-TRARIEUX PRIZE 2014 (PDF)
THE LUDOVIC-TRARIEUX PRIZE 1985 (PDF)
فوز بجائزة
المحامي المدافع ماهينور
المصري: الجميع سجنوها وواصلت
ماهينور
المصري
جنة التحكيم
برئاسة نقيب محامي
باريس .. والجائزة
: سجنت تباعا
من قبل
كل من
مبارك ومرسي والسيسي
وكالات
أعلنت لجنة
"جائزة لودوفيك تراريو" الأربعاء أن الجائزة
الدولية التي تكرم
سنويا محاميا لتميزه في "الدفاع
عن احترام
حقوق الإنسان"
فازت بها
هذا العام
المحامية
المصرية ماهينور المصري.
وأعلنت لجنة
التحكيم التي اجتمعت
في العاصمة
الفرنسية
الأربعاء
برئاسة نقيب محامي
باريس بيار- اوليفييه
سور ومؤسس
الجائزة نقيب محامي
بوردو برتران فافرو، أنها قررت
منح جائزة
العام 2014 إلى هذه
المحامية
المولودة
في الإسكندرية،
مشيرة إلى أن
ماهينور المصري "سجنت تباعا
من قبل
كل من
مبارك ومرسي والسيسي"،
آخر ثلاثة
رؤساء لمصر.
وستسلم الجائزة
في فلورنسا
بإيطاليا
في أكتوبر.
وتتألف لجنة
التحكيم كل عام
من محامين
يمثلون هيئات الدفاع
عن حقوق
الإنسان في كبريات
نقابات المحامين في اوروبا.
وتختار اللجنة
الفائز بالجائزة من خلال
عملية تصويت، وذلك بعد
أن تستشير
أبرز المنظمات
الحقوقية
غير الحكومية
ونقابات المحامين والجمعيات
الإنسانية
حول العالم
والتي تسمي سنويا
محامين ترى أنهم
يستحقون هذه الجائزة.
Mahinour al-Masry, an Egyptian lawyer and
activist who has been detained during the eras of both former presidents Hosni
Mubarak and Mohamed Morsi, as well as during the current era of Interim
President, now faces threat of imprisonment once again in the Mansour-Sisi era,
as she preferred to name it. Masry and six others were detained on Dec. 2, 2013
in Alexandria for protesting without permission in front of the Alexandria
Courthouse. They were protesting in solidarity with Khaled Said, whose brutal
2010 death while in state custody helped sparked the 2011 January 25
Revolution.
In January 2014, al-Masry was sentenced in absentia to two years in jail and to
a fine of 50,000 EGP, for protesting in December in solidarity with Khaled
Said, whose brutal death in 2010 while he was in custody lead to the 2011
January 25 Revolution. (It was reported that he was brutally beaten to death by
plain clothes policemen and subsequently became a symbol of police repression during
the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.) Simply by organizing this protest, Mahinour
al-Masry broke Egypt’s repressive protests law.
Mahinour al-Masry was in a first time
arrested later on Friday 11 April and investigated for her having letters from
activists in prison, but the charges were dropped and she was released on 12
Apr 2014. Prosecutors decided to open investigations relating to letters she
had with her at the time of her arrest, from a journalist and activist Rasha
Azab told Ahram Online. However, the prosecution has since terminated the
investigations after al-Masry's lawyers protested that having such letters is
not illegal.
Mahinour al-Masry was convicted in abstentia of
violation of the protest law. In an interview with Al-Wadi Newspaper, Masry
stated that the verdict issued against her is politically motivated, and that
her lawyers submitted evidence of her innocence. She has filed an appeal
against her sentence to prison, allowing her to avoid detention for the time
being.
On May 20, 2014, the Sidi Gaber Misdemeanour Court in Alexandria upheld The
two-year jail sentence against activist Mahinour al-Masry and fined her 50,000
EGP for organising an unauthorised protest. Mahinour al-Masry was detained on
May 20th 2014, to serve her sentence in jail . On May 22nd, the Egyptian
security forces violently repressed participants to a solidarity march
organised outside the headquarters of the Egyptian Center for Economic &
Social Rights (ECESR) in Alexandria, following a press conference organized to
show support for Ms. Mahinour al-Masry,
Moreover, Mahinour al-Masry is also facing
trial on separate charges for an incident that occurred in March 2013,
qualified as “assaulting security forces”, after she and other lawyers went to
Raml police station to provide legal assistance to three activists who were
arrested and sent to the police by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. The
lawyers were attacked by the police in the police station, and Mahinour
al-Masry was detained briefly before the Prosecution decided to release her and
the others.
Lawyers in solidarity with the detainees have
decided to carry-out a sit in at Al-Raml Prosecution to protest, then all
protesters were beaten during the protest and 13 were arrested.
The case was referred to court only on May 8,
2014, but the appointed judge resigned from the bench, and the next hearing
before a different circuit is scheduled for June 16, 2014.
Known by most political activists, Masry is a
member of the Revolutionary Socialists movement, and has always been outspoken
as to the rights of detainees and political prisoners, with a history of
activism in many labor movements, and on behalf of Syrian and Palestinian
refugees in Egypt.
During an interview with Al-Wadi, she
declared that the regime is not different from Mubarak’s one, and that its
actions took a more violent form, as state institutions have unanimously agreed
upon suppression of human rights, namely that the government wants to suppress
opinions under the cover of fighting terrorism.
She continued that Mubarak imposed the state
of emergency for thirty years using counter-terrorism as an argument, but this
law was applied on all young people who demanded freedom and justice, and that
military trials also included workers.
She further noted that since the revolution,
the Egyptian state did not undertake any laws to facilitate the restoration of
companies that were privatized, or important companies, such as Ezz Steel,
which still achieves profits, and its profits still go to Ahmed Ezz’s bank
accounts.
She further stated that in the case in which she was
charged with violation of the protest law, she has been protesting with only 19
other demonstrators. She added that despite this, security forces attacked them
with tear gas and arrested some of them.
It is the oldest
and most prestigious award given to a lawyer in the world, commemorating 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 ", because, he said: " It was
not only the single cause of a man which was to be defended, but behind this
cause, law, justice, humanity ".
The
first Prize was awarded on March 29th, 1985 to Nelson Mandela then in jail. It
was officially presented to his daughter, Zenani Mandela Dlamini, on April 27th
1985, in front of forty presidents of Bars and Law Societies from Europe and
Africa. It was the first award given to Mandela in France and the first around
the world given by lawyers. On February 11th 1990, Nelson Mandela was released.
Since then, it was decided that the Prize would be awarded again.
Since 2003, the Prize is awarded
every year in partnership by the Human Rights Institute of The Bar of Bordeaux,
the Human Rights Institute of the Bar of Paris, the Human Rights Institute of The
Bar of Brussels, l'Unione forense per la tutela dei diritti dell'uomo (Roma),
Rechtsanwaltskammer Berlin, the Bar of Luxemburg, the Bar of Geneva, the Bar of
Amsterdam as well as the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), and the
European Bar Human Rights Institute (IDHAE) whose members are the biggest
european law societies fighting for human rights. It is presented every year in
a city that is home to one of the member Institutes.
The following is the list of
prize winners :
1985:
Nelson MANDELA (South Africa)
1992: Augusto ZÚŃIGA PAZ (Peru) †
1994: Jadranka CIGELJ (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
1996 Nejib HOSNI (Tunisia) and Dalila MEZIANE (Algeria).
1998 ZHOU Guoqiang (China)
2000 Esber YAGMURDERELI (Turkey)
2002 Mehrangiz KAR (Iran)
2003 Digna OCHOA and Bárbara ZAMORA (Mexico)
2004: Akhtam NAISSE (Syria)
2005: Henri BURIN DES ROZIERS (Brazil)
2006: Parvez IMROZ (India)
2007 : René GÓMEZ MANZANO (Cuba)
2008 : U AYE MYINT (Burma)
2009 : Beatrice MTETWA (Zimbabwe)
2010 : Karinna MOSKALENKO (Russia)
2011 : Fethi TERBIL (Libya)
2012 :
Muharrem ERBEY (Turkey)
2013 :
Vadim KURAMSHIN (Kazakhstan)
