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Three Lithuanian policemen were fired after torturing a man detained for disturbing the peace. The man, who was drunk and rowdy, was handcuffed behind his back and had his hands held up with a rope for nearly an hour....
The problem with patients who finish treatment yet are kept in involuntary care continues. Civil Rights Defenders is submitting a complaint to the parliamentary ombudsman about a case in which a man was detained in violation of the European Convention.
Hungarian NGOs and Liberties recently asked the Commission to take three measures to protect the rule of law and the freedom of NGOs in Hungary and across the EU. Here's our assessment of the Commission's reply.
The Belgian minister of justice, Koen Geens, wants to assess which imams are active in the country and to which mosque they are tied. The executive body that represents Muslims in Belgium would need to aid in this...
"We are not financing the construction of fences or barriers at the external borders," an EC spokesperson told. Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán last week requested the EU to pay half of the claimed 800 million euros...
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In March, two young men in Kaunas, Lithuania, threatened a pregnant woman and insulted her husband, an Irish citizen of Indian descent, by calling him names and urging him to go back home. The Kaunas District Court...
The recent arrest in Spain of a critic of the Turkish government sends a message that police forces in EU countries are still all too willing to do the bidding of authoritarian regimes.
Amsterdam wrote history when on September 5, 1987, it revealed a unique and impressive monument next to the Western Church 'to inspire gay men and women and to support them in their fight against denial, persecution...
The EU Roma Strategy agreed to in 2011 has not brought results in integrating Europe’s largest minority. Poverty, discrimination and racism among Roma across the EU is unchanged. The EC launched infringement...
Hungary will request at the European Commission that the EU finances half of the cost of its wall being built on its southern border to 'protect' the country from migrants, PM Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, Janos...
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