The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Rojava vs. Turkey will be held on 5-6 February in Brussels.

The Tribunal will focus on the Turkish state’s attacks on Rojava between 2018 and 2024, and will present them for scrutiny in a broad and documented format. Already, the reports / documents / data made by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, prestigious human rights institutions, and many civil society organizations have shed some light on the picture.

The organization committee have announced the composition of the panel of prosecutors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Anni Pues is a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches and researches international criminal law. She has published widely on questions of international criminal and human rights law. In addition to her academic career, she is a legal practitioner, who has acted as Counsel at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, the International Criminal Court, and the European Court of Justice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara Spinelli is a lawyer based in Bologna, co-president of the European Lawyers Association for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH), member of the Human Rights Study Committee of the Bologna Bar Association, and the Human Rights Commission of the National Bar Council (C.N.F.). She is the author of “Feminicide. From Social Denunciation to International Legal Recognition” (FrancoAngeli, 2008) and other publications on femicide, male violence against women, and human rights. She has served as an international observer in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia, and is a co-author of the “Manual for International Process Observers. The Defense of Human Rights.

 

 

 

 

Declan Owens is a trade union and environmental lawyer with the environmental non-profit, Ecojustice Ireland. He is co-chair of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers in Britain and the International Officer of the Socialist Lawyers Association of Ireland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ezio Menzione is a lawyer in Pisa, Italy. He specialized in criminal law and death in many trials as a lawyer concerning human rights in front of Italian courts. In the last ten years, he’s been appointed International Observer for the Italian Union of Penal Chambers (UCPI) and as such he has attended many trials in other countries, especially in Turkey and Turkish Kurdistan.

 

 

 

 

 

Efstathios C. Efstathiou is a lawyer and member of the Cyprus Bar Association. Beyond his legal practice, Efstathios serves as the Vice President of the Cyprus Association for the Protection of the Rights of Prisoners and Released Prisoners, showcasing his unwavering dedication to upholding the rights and well-being of individuals within the Cyprus justice system. As a member of the Cyprus Democratic Lawyers Association, Efstathios is deeply committed to advocating for justice, fairness, and human rights within the legal realm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Florian Bohsung is a young human rights activist and researcher. He studied International Relations and Human Rights Law at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. For the past year, he has worked for the Legal Center Lesvos in Greece.

 

 

 

 

 

Heike Geisweid has been practicing law in the field of migration since 1996, with a primary focus on asylum cases for individuals from Turkey and Kurdistan. She has been a member of the board of (MAF-DAD e.V), the Association for Democracy and International Law, since 2006. Additionally, she has served as a board member of AZADΠ– Legal Aid Fund since 2003.

 

 

 

 

 

Jan Fermon, a lawyer at the Brussels Bar, specializes in criminal law, international (humanitarian) law, and human rights law. Since 2005, he has been a bureau member of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL). With extensive experience as a lawyer, legal advisor, researcher, teacher, and human rights defender, Fermon is skilled in immigration law, criminal defense, international law, and international humanitarian law. His work reflects a strong commitment to human rights and progressive legal practices.

 

 

 

 

 

Rengin Ergül, a Human Rights Lawyer, has been actively working as an advocate and activist in the field of human rights since 2009 and has been practicing as a human rights lawyer since 2013. Her work focuses on torture and ill-treatment, prisons, and refugee rights in Turkey and Kurdistan. She has contributed to the management and activities of several legal and human rights organizations in both regions. Currently, she continues her work in Germany as a member of The European Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) and the Association for Democracy and International Law (MAF-DAD).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Socrates Tziazas is a lawyer and member of the Cyprus Bar Association with a specialization in criminal law and human rights practice. His expertise also extends to the application of the rule of law and human rights principles in the criminal justice system. As a dedicated member of the Cyprus Democratic Lawyers Association, Socrates is deeply committed to promoting the rule of law, protecting human rights, and advocating for justice in Cyprus and elsewhere.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Şerife Ceren Uysal is a human rights lawyer from Istanbul. She has been based in Vienna since August 2016. An executive board member of the Progressive Lawyers Association since 2015, Ceren Uysal was awarded the Dr.Georg Lebiszczak Prize for Freedom of Speech in Austria in 2016 December. She is currently the co-secretary general of The European Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH). Ceren is working as PEN Norway’s Legal Adviser on Turkey.

 

 

 

 

 

Urko Aiartza Azurtza is an esteemed member of the Gipuzkoa Lawyers Bar and has represented numerous human rights groups and individuals as a lawyer in national and international courts and institutions, which include the ECHR and UN. He is a Board Member of BEHATOKIA, The Basque Observatory of HHRR. He also holds the position of Co-President of the European Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights. Hailing from the Basque Country, he previously served as a senator (2011-2015) in Madrid, where he held the position of Spokesperson in the Justice, Foreign Affairs, Iberoamerican, and Standing Senate Committees. In recent years, he has been actively providing consultancy on peace and mediation to public and private international institutions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Since 2019, he has also taken on the role of director at the Olaso Dorrea Foundation and its “TM eLab”, a center for generating innovative ideas in the Basque Country, his birthplace and current residence.