RIS has taken part in training sessions for police agents, officials, politicians and civil society on how to analyze stop-and-search data to help combat the use of ethnic profiling.

After decades of waiting, Italy has finally introduced the crime of torture in its criminal code. The criminal definition provided by the new law is deeply flawed, up to the point that many had asked for the dismissal...

The Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that the current procedure for the appointment of members of the National Council of the Judiciary is unconstitutional.

In the context of the ongoing process of regulating immigration detention at the Council of Europe level, CILD has joined the International Detention Coalition and others in a joint statement advocating for a...

From incommunicado detention to violence against women, there are many shortcomings in Spain's efforts to combat torture. The Spanish state will soon have to account for its actions, or lack thereof.

Austrian Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil has announced that the government is ready to send troops and armored vehicles to the Brenner Pass border area with Italy in an effort to stop migrants from entering...

Britain's Labour Party is urging Prime Minister Theresa May to drop her "red line" objection to the role of the European Court of Justice after Brexit. In a letter published Wednesday in the Financial Times, Labour...

A new study reveals that suspects don't understand their rights and, as a result, can't enjoy them effectively.

The Amsterdam High Court on June 29 sentenced all four suspects in the so-called Passage Process, which involved gang murders, to life in prison. This ruling is striking. In April 2016, the Strasbourg court ruled in...

Here is the joint statment by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Hungarian Helsinki Committee and Liberties on the Hungarian NGO law, which has now entered into force.