Maître Daniel Jacoby
Daniel Jacoby was born in Saint-Mande (Departement Val de Marne) on August 14, 1933. He is married and has two children. He started his advocacy at the Paris Court of Appeal; in the following years he represented some of the Algerian resistance fighters during the war of independence, as well as some of the opponents of the Franco and the Soviet regimes. Jacoby is a co-founder of the newspaper Libération. Since 1970, he has been a member (between1986 and 1995 also the president) of the International Human Rights Federation (F.I.D.H.). Furthermore he took part in several international judicial investigations in different countries. For his work in the field of human rights, he was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.
Important Dates:
1956
Lawyer at the Paris Court of Appeal
1960
Secretary at the Conference of the Junior Lawyers (Paris Court of Appeal), in the following years, member of the French Institute for International Law Experts
Since 1965
Lawyer of the organisation UGTSF (Union of the Senegalese Workers in France) and for numerous other foreign workers
1968 - 1972
Defence counsel of opponents of the Soviet regime opponents (including Kouznetzov, Chtcharanaski) and of members of the Committee for the Preservation of the Helsinki Treaty from the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries
1969 - 1995
Member of the Central Committee of the French Human Rights League
Since 1970
Member of the International Human Rights Federation (F.I.D.H.)
1986 - 1995
President of F.I.D.H.
Since 1995
Honorary President of F.I.D.H.
Since 2003
Secretary-General of "France Libertés" Foundation Danielle Mitterrand
Awards:
In 1960 Daniel Jacoby was awarded the Edouard Foy Prize, he is also a member of the French Order of Merit and a Knight of the French Legion of Honour
[June 2011]