Lennart Binder

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Lennart Binder (* 1948 in Stockholm ) is an Austrian lawyer and human rights activist .

life and work

Binder is the son of Anni and Otto Binder , who survived the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps and finally emigrated to Sweden with his wife. In 1949 the family returned to Austria. According to his own account, Binder feels today "... often reminded of the torture of the Nazis , told by his father in book form , when refugees tell him about their ordeal."

For decades, Binder has represented people in asserting their basic rights . These include refugees from Africa , as part of Operation Spring were monitored and eventually arrested in a raid suspected jihadists , Pakistani asylum seeker , but also besachwaltete clients and victims of possible authorities arbitrariness from Austria. Binder became known to a wider public as a criminal defense attorney after Operation Spring in 1999: According to the daily newspaper Der Standard, “... not only was he able to prove that the main defendant at the time was not a drug dealer, but that the whole police operation was largely a failure . "

Binder does not always manage to save his clients from conviction, but in the case of Mohamed Mahmoud , Austria's first convicted Islamist, Binder managed to have the process repeated because of a formal error. He requested the deletion of all data that the police had obtained in the course of Internet monitoring of his client by means of keylogg control and screenshots. In Binder's opinion, the use of attack software exceeds "... even in the extreme literal sense of the law optical surveillance" and should therefore not be used by the court.

Binder is the founder and chairman of the St. Marx migrant association , a legal adviser for refugees and migrants in asylum and aliens law matters. The association does not receive any public subsidies and finances its operations exclusively through contributions from its clients and donations.

Binder regularly takes a public position against what he believes is illegal practice by the police and the judiciary in Austria against refugees and asylum seekers , and he does not shy away from criticizing his own peers.

Binder's sister Margit Fischer (* 1943) is the wife of the eighth Federal President of Austria, Heinz Fischer .

Quote

“A situation in which you have the feeling that right is no longer right, but wrong? That's where you toast regularly. The highest courts in Austria do not seem to be of the opinion that they are responsible for individual case law. They are only concerned with standardizing case law. In the instance, they do not check the justice, but only whether the decision corresponds to the usual norm. In this respect, law and justice actually have little to do with each other. "

- Lennart Binder : Asylum seekers unbelievable. Punkt, Augustin , September 9, 2010

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Simoner: Lennart Binder, lawyer for "squeezed cases" (head of the day), Der Standard (Vienna), December 2, 2014
  2. ↑ Terror Process: tumultuous scenes in the courtroom , the press Wien 6 March 2008
  3. ^ Migrants' Association St. Marx
  4. ^ Kerstin Kellermann: Asylum seekers unbelievable. Punkt , interview with Lennart Binder, Augustin Vienna, September 9, 2010
  5. ↑ An interview with the “Austro-Taliban” lawyer , interview with Lennart Binder, Kurier Vienna, January 28, 2012
  6. ↑ Youtube - Statement on the raid of May 27, 1999
personal data
SURNAME Binder, Lennart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm