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Lidia Rieder

LEGAL OFFICER, EUROPE

Lidia Rieder, PhD, serves as Legal Officer for ADF International in Vienna, Austria. She is a lawyer specializing in public international law and conducts high quality legal advocacy in Europe to promote and protect religious liberty, freedom of expression, life, and the family.

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Lidia Rieder, PhD, serves as Legal Officer for ADF International in Vienna, Austria. She is a lawyer specializing in public international law and conducts high quality legal advocacy in Europe to promote and protect religious liberty, freedom of expression, life, and the family. Her responsibilities include legal analysis, research, and drafting, with a particular focus on the European Court of Human Right.

Prior to joining ADF International, Rieder worked as an intern at the United Nations Register of Damage. She also worked and interned with commercial, governmental, and legal organizations in Minsk, Hamburg, Berlin, Brussels, and Vienna.

She is fluent in English, German, and Russian. Rieder earned her law degree in 2008 in Minsk, Belarus, followed by an LL.M. in International and European Law in 2010 in Bremen. She obtained a PhD in International Law at the University of Bremen in 2018 (magna cum laude) for which she was scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

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Current Cases
David Byle is just one of the Christians persecuted in Turkey for his faith.

Christians banned from Turkey 

The number of Christians in Turkey has diminished from 20 percent to 0.2 percent of the population in the last 100 years. Although Turkey does not have a constitutionally recognized state religion, its government is increasingly marked by Islamization and nationalism, which creates challenges for religious minorities, particularly Christians.

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Statement of Faith

Based on our adherence to the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess with the Christian Church throughout time and around the world the faith expressed in the Apostles’ Creed:

I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.

Päivi Räsänen

Eine Abgeordnete des finnischen Parlaments, die wegen ‘Hassrede’ angeklagt wurde, nachdem sie öffentlich ihre christlichen Überzeugungen zu Ehe und Sexualität geäußert hatte.

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce

Die engagierte Lebensschützerin aus Großbritannien, die festgenommen wurde, als sie still in der Nähe einer Abtreibungsklinik auf einer öffentlichen Straße betete.

Rodrigo Iván Cortés

Ein ehemaliger Kongressabgeordnete aus Mexiko, der bestraft wurde, nachdem er die biologische Wahrheit der zwei Geschlechter verteidigt hatte.

Nada und Hamouda

Aus dem Sudan, deren Ehe von einem Scharia-Gericht aufgelöst wurde und die mit 100 Peitschenhieben und Lebensgefahr bedroht wurden, nur weil sie zum Christentum konvertierten.

Shagufta und Shafqat

Ein christliches Paar aus Pakistan, das 7 Jahre lang in der Todeszelle saß, weil sie angeblich eine blasphemische Textnachricht versendet hatten - obwohl beide weder lesen noch schreiben können.