Following a number or attacks against prison guards by inmates in prisons all over France, a nationwide strike has gone into effect. Guard unions have vowed a "total blockade" of prisons as their dispute with the...

Facebook has admitted that it can't offer any assurance that social media is on the whole good for democracy. However, Facebook said it's doing what it can to stop people from using its service to influence...

The social media posts incited discrimination and violence against Muslims and black people.

The family of Madina Hussiny, the six-year-old girl who died a month ago at the Serbia-Croatia border, has filed a criminal charge against unknown police officers from the Croatian Ministry of the Interior.

The Constitutional Court found problems with three areas of a 2016 law that reforms Belgium's criminal justice system.

A group of privacy organisations has initiated a lawsuit against the Dutch state because of the "risk profiling of unsuspected Dutch citizens". The suit targets the System Risk Indication (SyRI) of the government,...

A group of Syrian women in Berlin are adapting the Euripides tragedy "Iphigenia", using the play, which is set during an ancient war, to bring Berlin audiences closer to the plight of women who must flee their homes...

A case brought by a French woman living in a same-sex partnership was dismissed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg, denying her paternity leave. The ECtHR concluded that a lesbian woman was...

Since Snowden's revelations, journalists and writers have been self-censoring on a wide range of issues - and this is just one of the 'chilling effects' of mass surveillance.

Romania made scant progress rooting out corruption in state institutions in 2017, according to a new report by the Council of Europe anti-corruption agency GRECO. Romania was able to fully meet only two of the 13...