• NLG International statement of solidarity with Argentine journalist Carlos Aznarez and activist Ruben Saboulard

    Posted on February 4, 2016

    **UPDATE: As of 27 February, the NLG was informed that the charges against Aznarez and Saboulard were dropped. The National Lawyers Guild International Committee expressed its solidarity with Argentine journalist Carlos Aznarez and activist Ruben Saboulard, facing criminal prosecution and severe violations of his privacy and journalistic sources in a case in Argentina where he is […]

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  • NLG Palestine Subcommittee calls on France to end prosecutions of BDS activists

    Posted on January 25, 2016

    The National Lawyers Guild’s Palestine Subcommittee called upon the French government to cease its prosecution of activists urging boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) targeting Israeli products. In a letter to French Ambassador to the United States Gérard Araud, the Palestine Subcommittee called on France to end all prosecutions of activists under the so-called Alliot-Marie circular, […]

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  • NLG committee urges Bulgaria not to extradite former Palestinian prisoner Zayed

    Posted on January 14, 2016

    A committee of the National Lawyers Guild, a U.S.-based organization of progressive lawyers, legal workers, law students and jailhouse lawyers, sent a letter to the Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States urging Bulgaria to reject the Israeli request to extradite former Palestinian political prisoner Omar Nayef Zayed. Zayed, who has lived in Bulgaria for the past […]

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  • NLG urges immediate release of hunger striking Palestinian lawyer Muhammed Allan

    Posted on August 18, 2015

    The National Lawyers Guild urges the immediate release of hunger-striking Palestinian lawyer and administrative detainee, Muhammed Allan, as he nears death in his third month on open hunger strike. Allan is now in a coma and attached to a ventilator. He is threatened with force-feeding at any moment under the new Israeli “Law to Prevent […]

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  • International Legal and Human Rights Organizations Endorse Palestinian Human Rights Call to Act on UN Gaza Report

    Posted on August 8, 2015

    The National Lawyers Guild, along with a number of prominent legal and human rights organizations, issued a statement of support for Palestinian human rights organizations’ call for international action on the UN’s Gaza commission report, in particular action by the International Criminal Court. As international legal and human rights organizations, we endorse the below statement […]

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  • Could Israel finally be held accountable?

    Posted on July 31, 2015

    By Azadeh Shahshahani and Audrey Bomse The following article, by NLG President Azadeh Shahshahani and Palestine Subcommittee co-chair Audrey Bomse, was published in Al-Jazeera America on July 30: Link to original article: http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/7/could-israel-finally-be-held-accountable.html In a highly unusual pretrial chamber ruling on July 16, International Criminal Court (ICC) judges reversed a decision by the court’s chief […]

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  • New NLG submission to ICC prosecutor: Neither facts nor law support Israel’s self-defense claims on Gaza

    Posted on July 18, 2015

    The Palestine Subcommittee of the National Lawyers Guild has sent a revised submission to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Gaza, “Neither facts nor law support Israel’s self-defense claim regarding its 2014 assault on Gaza,” written by attorney James Marc Leas. The updated submission uses new reports and materials to further bolster its […]

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  • NLG, LPHR and Addameer submit UN complaint on Palestinian human rights defender Khalida Jarrar

    Posted on June 18, 2015

    Complaint submitted to the United Nations concerning the Israeli military arrest, detention and indictment of the Palestinian human rights defender, London, Ramallah and New York, 16 June 2015 – Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR), Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) have submitted a joint complaint to […]

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  • NLG IC at the World Social Forum

    Posted on March 20, 2015

    (Neo)Colonial Militarism and State Violence: Global – Local Connections The National Lawyers Guild is a co-sponsor of the following event at the World Social Forum, the international gathering of social movements taking place in Tunis March 24-28: TIME: March 27, 3 pm LOCATION: Salle TD9, World Social Forum, Tunis, Tunisia From the Arab uprisings, to […]

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  • NLG, PSLS, CCR, ACLU-MA urge Northeastern student government to uphold student democracy

    Posted on March 12, 2015

    On Thursday, March 12, Palestine Solidarity Legal Support, along with the ACLU of Massachusetts, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild sent a letter to Northeastern University Student Body President and student government members, urging them to resist calls to suppresses student democracy by preventing the student body […]

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