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...

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

The Provincial Court of Ceuta has reopened the investigation into the deaths of 15 migrants killed while attempting to cross the border to Ceuta, when they were attacked with anti-riot gear by the Guardia Civil...

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

Dylann Roof is the young American man who, on June 18, 2015, perpetrated the terrible Charleston massacre, killing nine African-American people. He has now been condemned to death, and, while obviously and...

Following concerns expressed by the German government, Facebook decided to roll out its new tools to fight the spread of fake news on the internet in Germany. The system will let users flag potentially fake articles....

In the beginning of January, a court in Nice decided to release Pierre-Alain Mannoni, a university professor accused of aiding the entrance and the movement within French territory of three Eritrean women without...

The case against two puppeteers prosecuted in Spain for performing a satirical play has been dismissed definitively. A few months ago, the High Court also repealed the glorification of terrorism offense. The...

Rights International Spain has carried out an investigation within the framework of a European project which has culminated in a report that points out serious deficiencies in the compliance with the Procedural Directives related to juveniles.

More than 100,000 people have signed an online petition demanding for the resignation of the Romanian ombudsperson. The petitioners are outraged that Victor Ciorbea appealed to the Constitutional Court against a 2001...