For immediate release: June 30, 2014 Tasha Moro Communications Coordinator communications@nlg.org 212-679-5100, ext. 15 NEW YORK–The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) today submitted comments to the Defense Department’s Military Justice Review Group as part of its comprehensive review of the military justice system. Recommendations to improve the system include eliminating the “convening authority” as the near-absolute […]
Category Archives: Press Releases
NLG and Nearly 60 International Organizations Urge UN to Remedy Human Rights Violations in Pre-Charge Detention of Julian Assange
For immediate release: June 19, 2014 Tasha Moro Communications Coordinator communications@nlg.org GENEVA—Fifty-nine human rights and legal organizations urged the United Nations on June 15 to remedy Sweden’s violation of the fundamental human rights of WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange. For nearly four years, Assange has experienced pre-charge detention stemming from a Swedish investigation yet to charge […]
NLG Fact-Finding Delegation Calls for End of U.S.-Backed Administrative Detention of Palestinians by Israel
For immediate release: May 29, 2014 Tasha Moro Communications Coordinator communications@nlg.org 212-679-5100, ext. 15 NEW YORK – Approximately 200 Palestinians from the West Bank have been held for months or years by Israeli occupation forces without access to a just legal system, members of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) learned in a fact-finding delegation from […]
NLG Palestine Subcommittee to Observe Appeal Hearing of Slain U.S. Peace Activist Rachel Corrie
For immediate release: May 21, 2014 Contact: Delegation members Azadeh Shahshahani, NLG President (president@nlg.org) or Andrew Dalack, Palestine Subcommittee Co-Chair (ajdalack@gmail.com) By phone in Jerusalem: 972-053-426-4921 NLG National Office in New York: 1-212-679-5100, ext. 15 JERUSALEM – The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Palestine Subcommittee will attend today’s appeal hearing before the Israeli Supreme Court in the […]
NLG Releases Report on Government Spying on Legal Profession, Launches FBI FOIA Project
For immediate release: April 24, 2014 Tasha Moro Communications Coordinator communications@nlg.org 212-679-5100, ext. 15 NEW YORK — A new report by the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), Breach of Privilege: Spying on Lawyers in the United States, brings to light the government’s long history of covert surveillance of attorneys and their activist clients. The release also […]
NLG and Legal Groups to Senators: Rejection of DOJ Nominee Adegbile Threatens Justice System
For immediate release: March 14, 2014 Tasha Moro Communications Coordinator communications@nlg.org 212-679-5100, ext. 15 New York The National Lawyers Guild (NLG), along with other bar associations and legal groups, expressed profound concern over the rejection of Debo Adegbile to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. In a letter to the 52 Senators […]
CCR, NLG and CAIR-USA Ask House Education Committee to Oppose Anti-Boycott Bill
For immediate release: March 6, 2014 Advocates Assert Bill Violates First Amendment February 12, 2014, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations-USA (CAIR-USA) sent members of the House of Representatives Education and the Workforce Committee a letter urging them to oppose legislation that would deny federal funding […]
The National Lawyers Guild and other Rights Groups Call on Universities to Protect Open Debate on Palestine/Israel
For immediate release: February 6, 2014 Azadeh Shahshahani president@nlg.org (404) 574-0851 New York New York – The National Lawyers Guild and other organizations calling for human rights and for the rule of law in Palestine and Israel today urged academic institutions to reaffirm their commitment to free and open campus debate. The plea for free expression, including the right to […]
National Lawyers Guild Observers Find Salvadoran Elections to be Free and Fair
For immediate release: February 5, 2014 Judy Somberg judy_somberg@igc.org 617-497-5364 New York For interviews in Spanish: William Leavitt, WilliamLeavitt@hotmail.com, 212-897-5852 A group of five members of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) traveled to El Salvador as trained and accredited election observers to monitor the first round of the 2014 Presidential elections and to investigate the […]
National Lawyers Guild Observers Question Validity of Honduran Elections
For immediate release: November 26, 2013 Contact: Tasha Moro, Communications Coordinator 212-679-5100, ext. 15 | communications@nlg.org The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) delegation of 17 credentialed international observers seriously question the validity of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal’s (TSE) preliminary results of Sunday’s national elections in Honduras. The NLG takes issue with the United States government’s characterization […]
