The trial of dozens of South American political and military leaders accused of a state-sponsored kidnapping, torture and murder has come to a close. The verdict: 8 life sentences; 19 acquittals.

On January 25, one year will have passed from the day Giulio Regeni went missing in Egypt's capital. We still do not have truth and justice for the young Italian researcher brutally tortured and murdered, but the...

Italian NGO Antigone, which has long been active in defending prisoners' rights, launched a campaign against solitary confinement in prisons back in the summer of 2016. Now Antigone's new legal proposal reforming the...

While the French Court of Cassation has shown itself capable of applying European standards in combatting discrimination, Spanish courts are incapable of seeing beyond the presumption of truth in police testimonies.

Jailhouse Rock is a radio program and the voice of those who are detained in all Italian prisons. The editorial staff is made up of detainees, and they interview important politicians, singers and many others...

Asylum applications in the Netherlands fell by 46 percent in 2016 from 2015, the IND Immigration Service announced. The decrease is largely a consequence of the EU-Turkey deal from March 2016, which drastically...

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has decided to reject a ban on the far-right extremist National Democratic Party (NPD).

Although centers for identification and expulsion (CIE) are manifestly ineffective and inhumane, Italy could soon be getting many more of them.

One of the last official acts of President Obama is an act of grace: he has commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, the US Army analyst who in 2010 released top secret document to Wikileaks. She had been sentenced...

A law on living wills - which allow people to express their wishes about how they want to be treated and cared for in certain situations when they lack the capacity to make or communicate their decisions - will...