A court in Overijssel, the Netherlands, has ruled that 52-year-old man from The Hague is guilty of inciting violence against Armenians during a protest.

The amendment to the Press Law Act provides changes to the current law on authorization of the press statements. The proposed amendment is to implement the European Court of Human Rights judgment in case Wizerkaniuk...

More than 200 migrants are feared dead after their boats sank off the coast of Libya, Spanish aid organization Proactiva Open Arms says. Five bodies, all young men who appeared to have drowned, were recovered floating...

A terminally ill former lecturer has gone to court so that he may be allowed to receive assistance to die at home surrounded by his family. Noel Conway, 67, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, an incurable...

Germany will quash the convictions of 50,000 men sentenced under the penal code's notorious Paragraph 175. The law, which was relaxed in 1969, had sent many into jail and some took their own lives because of the...

The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly noted that the use of pre-trial detention is a structural problem in Poland. However, nothing indicates this bad practice will soon change. The Helsinki Foundation for...

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the EU, the EU-Turkey agreement must be buried and European values must be respected.

As the last of Italy's judicial psychiatric hospitals is about to close, voices such as StopOPG are opposing a proposed bill to keep them open. Approved by the Senate, the new bill will be about a "modification of the...

The eastern Aegean Islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos in Greece once again face a sharp increase in the number of migrants landing from Turkey. Since last Thursday, statistics show that 566 people have arrived –...

Unaccompanied migrant children in Europe are often forced to live in "abysmal conditions" upon arrival and denied free legal aid, says a new report from the Council of Europe. The report paints a troubling reality:...