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  • Interview on Puls24 from 21.02.2024
    • Criminal proceedings for abuse of authority (excessive police violence)view
  • Interview on Puls24 from 22.01.2024
    • Lawyer Clemens Lahner in the Interview of the Dayview

Press

  • Legal successes of the climate movement
    • Complaint against body search won before the Administrative Court of Vienna - view
    • Complaint against unlawful use of pepper spray at gas conference - view
  • Pushbacks at Austrian borders
    • Styrian-Slovenian border – Asylum application "ignored"? - view
  • Drasenhofen case
    • Public prosecutor files charges against Waldhäusl over transfer of refugees to Drasenhofen - view
    • Accommodation of refugees in the barbed-wire asylum center in Drasenhofen was unlawful - view
  • Constitutional Court ends detention pending deportation for Afghans - view
  • The police and the virus
    • The police and the virus: Informing, warnings, and the nephew trick - view
    • Mass accommodation during the pandemic - view
  • Complaints against police orders and use of force
    • In Praise of Complaints - view
    • MO – Human Rights Magazine – A flawless police force is too much to ask for - view
    • Lawyer on major police operations: "That's when the testosterone starts steaming out" - view
  • Climate protests
    • Climate activist: Search was unlawful - view
    • Acquittal for demonstrator - view
    • Official action at climate protest in Vienna was unlawful - view
    • Court proceedings following climate protest - view
    • Administrative fine against climate protester overturned - view
  • State of emergency in Turkey
    • Lower Class Magazine – "The state cannot extinguish the resistance" - view
    • Der Standard – Turkey restricts freedom of expression with anti-terror law - view
  • Kurds in Turkey
    • Wiener Zeitung – The shattered dream of a free Kurdistan - view
  • CJEU on the Dublin III Regulation
    • BBC – EU court says Austria can deport asylum seekers - view
  • Aliens Law Amendment Act 2017 (FrÄG 2017)
    • Parliamentary Interior Committee – Excerpts from the expert hearing of 13.06.2017 - view
  • Trial observation in Istanbul
    • Die Presse – When lawyers in Turkey are punished for doing their job - view
    • Kurier – "Rule of law shaken to its foundations" - view
    • Der Standard – Lawyers: “The roof is on fire” in the Turkish judiciary - view
    • VIENNA – Viennese lawyer observing show trials in Turkey - view
    • Austria – Viennese lawyer observing show trials in Turkey - view
    • Conference: Dark Side Of The Moon – “The normalization of the state of emergency and the situation of judiciary in Turkey” – Istanbul, 07–09.09.2018 - view
  • Reactions to the coup attempt in Turkey
    • Salzburg 24 – Coup attempt in Turkey: EU Commission sticks to refugee deal, judges desperate - view
    • Wiener Zeitung – Erdogan on course for death penalty - view
    • Tiroler Tageszeitung – Turkey – Lawyers: Turkey is an authoritarian regime - view
    • ORF – Lawyers see Turkey as an authoritarian regime - view
    • VIENNA – Austrian lawyers: “Turkey is an authoritarian regime” - view
    • Der Standard – When defending clients becomes a charge against lawyers - view
  • Refugee aid: Criticism of § 114 FPG
    • Wiener Zeitung – The end of refugee aid - view
    • Wiener Zeitung – Between smuggling and helping - view
  • Complaint against the rejection of refugees at the border
    • FM4 – Entry denied - view
  • Trial following protests against the 2014 Akademikerball
    • Der Standard – Akademikerball trial: The antifascist and the Ytong blocks - view
  • Long duration of asylum procedures
    • Wiener Zeitung – New authority, old problems - view
  • Cap on the admission of asylum applications
    • Wiener Zeitung – Border closed – questions remain - view
  • Turkish Kurds in Austria
    • Der Standard – Kurds from Turkey: A life of ups and downs - view
  • Attack on Kurdish demonstration
    • Der Standard – Trial: Encounter with "terrorists" on the way to the hardware store - view
    • Kleine Zeitung – Participant of Kurdish demo run over: Trial continues - view
    • Niederösterreichische Nachrichten – Participant of Kurdish demo run over: Trial - view
    • Niederösterreichische Nachrichten – Participant of Kurdish demo run over: Trial postponed - view
    • Der Standard – Kurdish demo run over: Turk convicted - view
    • Three years imprisonment – Turk drove into demo - view
  • Demonstration against Akademikerball 2016
    • Kleine Zeitung – Akademikerball: Police check demonstrators from Graz “without suspicion” - view
    • Der Standard – Vienna Administrative Court: Detention of OGR Styria bus unlawful! - view
    • Der Standard – Akademikerball demo: No checks without suspicion - view
  • Human rights violations in Eastern Turkey
    • OE 24 – Lawyers see human rights violations - view
    • Tiroler Tageszeitung – Lawyers denounce human rights violations in Southeastern Turkey - view
  • Demonstration against Erdogan's visit to Vienna
    • VIENNA – Riots during Erdogan's visit to Vienna: Protester (30) on trial - view
  • Demonstration against Identitarian march
    • Die Presse – Identitarian demo: Lawsuit against all. After pepper spray use, victims want to file a complaint against the police. - view
  • The case of Josef S.
    • ORF – Sentence for Josef S. upheld - view
    • Kurier – Justice faces another defeat - view
    • Die Presse – Akademikerball: Josef S. appeals - view
    • Jungle World – Viennese madness - view
    • Stuttgarter Zeitung – One for all – German student as scapegoat of justice - view
    • Ostthüringer Zeitung – After riots at Akademikerball: Jena student challenges Vienna verdict - view
    • VICE – Justice or revenge? - view
    • Wiener Zeitung – Trial full of blunders and gaps - view
    • Der Falter – "Hired demonstrator" or altar boy? - view
    • Der Spiegel – German student on trial in Vienna: In black bloc against the fraternity ball - view
    • Die Presse – Student indicted as leader of the black bloc - view
  • The Krems case
    • Der Standard – 18 months in prison for 17-year-old burglar – Fatal shots in Krems - view
    • Der Standard – 18 months in prison for 17-year-old burglar - view
    • Kleine Zeitung – KREMS CASE – Long sentence for supermarket burglary - view
  • Extradition of Yusuf T. and Özgür A.
    • Die Presse – Austria extradites Yusuf T. - view
    • KPÖ Wien – Özgür Aslan also extradited to Germany - view
    • News Networld – Why two Austro-Turks are on trial in Germany - view
    • Özgür Aslan extradited to Germany - view
  • Profil – The fighters in the shadows - view
  • Panel Discussion – The Limits of Freedom of Expressionview
  • Constitutional Court Decision (VfGH-UVS)
    • Falter 15/14 – A punch in the kidneyview
    • Constitutional Court ruling from 04.03.2014 on B 1190 from 2012 – view
  • Human Smuggling Trial
    • Flyer – Panel Discussion – view
    • Gallery – Panel Discussion – view
    • noe.orf.atAlleged smugglers released from custodyview
    • Wiener Zeitung Online – Trial full of blunders and gapsview
    • Vienna Online – Smuggling trial in Lower Austria: Prosecutor calls for release of all defendantsview
    • Vienna Online – Evidence proceedings in smuggling trial concludedview
    • Die Furche – Walking the line between help and exploitationview
  • Panel Discussion
    • Flyer – Symposium “Smuggling”, Trafficking, Helpingview
    • Gallery – Symposium “Smuggling”, Trafficking, Helpingview

Video

  • Interview on Puls24 from 21.02.2024
    • Criminal proceedings for abuse of authority (excessive police violence)view
  • Interview on Puls24 from 22.01.2024
    • Lawyer Clemens Lahner in the Interview of the Dayview