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LUDOVIC-TRARIEUX INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE 2013
Prix International des droits de l'homme Ludovic-Trarieux 2013
Premio Internacional de Derechos
Humanos Ludovic Trarieux
2013
Internationalen Ludovic-Trarieux-Menschenrechtspreis
2013
Prêmio Internacional de Direitos
Humanos Ludovic Trarieux
2013
Premio Internazionale per i Diritti Umani Ludovic Trarieux 2013
Ludovic Trarieux Internationale Mensenrechtenprijs 2013
Since/Depuis/ Desde/Dal/Seit
1984
“The
award given by lawyers to a lawyer”
“L’hommage des avocats à un avocat ”
“El homenaje de abogados
a un abogado ”
“Il Tributo
degli avvocati ad un avvocato”
“Die Hommage von Anwälten zu einem Anwalt”
THE LUDOVIC-TRARIEUX PRIZE 2013 (PDF)
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The Ludovic-Trarieux
International Human Rights Prize 2013
presented to
Vadim Kuramshin
KAZAKHSTAN
On December 5th, 2013 in Paris.
Meeting in Geneva Law Courts
on June 20th, 2013, the Jury of 29 European lawyers presided by
lawyer Bertrand FAVREAU, awarded the 18th Ludovic-Trarieux
International Human Rights Prize to lawyer from Kazakhstan, Vadim
Kuramshin.
Vadim Kuramshin is a prominent
lawyer and human rights defender, currently sentenced to 12 years in prison, well
known for his defense of victims of those serving sentences and suffering
beatings in prison and for his investigations into the murder of prisoners.
Vadim Kuramshin was arrested
right after coming back from an OSCE conference in Warsaw in September 2012,
during which he presented a speech denouncing human rights abuses in
Kazakhstan. On 31 October 2012, the appeals panel of Zhambyl
court annulled the previous jury verdict due to alleged 'significant procedural
violations' during the earlier court sessions.
Vadim Kuramshin was re-arrested
on 31 October 2012 in the city of Petropavlovsk, northern Kazakhstan. He was
reportedly beaten during the arrest and while in detention in the detention
facility in Petropavlovsk. Protesting against harassment and threats received
in pre-trial detention, including threats of sexual violence, Vadim Kuramshin cut his veins. He
was consequently placed in solitary confinement due to “violation of the
conditions of his detention”. On 3 November 2012, he was transported from
Petropavlovsk to the detention facility in Taraz.
He was sentenced to 12 years
in prison on December 7, 2012 on charges of blackmailing the assistant of the
district attorney. The verdict was upheld by the Court of Taraz
on 14th February 2013. In addition to the court ordered the confiscation of his
property. This trial has been widely reported as not conforming with international standards.
In March 2013, Vadim Kuramshin was transferred
to prison colony EC 164/4, a prison infamous for human rights violations, which
increases fears for his safety.
Prize will be officially
presented on December 5th, 2013 in
Paris.
Created in 1984, the "International
Human Rights Prize Ludovic -Trarieux”
is awarded to " a lawyer, regardless of nationality or Bar, who thoroughout his career has illustrated, by his activity or his
suffering, the defence of human rights, the promotion of defence rights, the
supremacy of law, and the struggle against racism and intolerance in any form
".
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 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.
PAST PRIZE
WINNERS
Since 1984 :
1985: Nelson
MANDELA (South Africa)
1992: Augusto
ZÚÑIGA 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)
