The Hungarian government has kicked off the new year with a fresh wave of attacks against three of the country's most prominent civil society organizations.

A similar law to the United States’ Magnitsky Act – which allows courts to impose visa bans and asset freezes on Russian officials – is being discussed in the UK. The US law is named after Russian...

The NGO A Buon Diritto issued its first report on the state of human rights in Italy in 2014 (Rapporto sullo stato dei diritti in Italia). The report answered the need for a unified instrument to overview the state of...

The Public Interest Litigation Project of the Netherlands Committee of Jurists for Human Rights (PILP-NJCM) has offered an amicus curiae brief, or opinion, to the Supreme Court about the freedom of speech in the case of Lennart Feijen.

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik returns to court this week as the government appeals a ruling that his isolation in prison breaches the European Convention on Human Rights. Breivik, who killed 77 people...

The human rights organization Liberty has launched a legal challenge in a bid to derail the UK government's recently passed Investigatory Powers Act, often referred to as the "Snooper's Charter." Liberty wants to...

In this new episode of "Prisons of Italy" we explore the world of working and training in prison. Some detainees work for the penitentiary administration, others are volunteers and still others participate to...

The ball is firmly in Parliament's court: will MPs give journalists the freedom to fully and effectively report on events in the Polish legislature?

Boban Stojanovic and his partner Adam Puskar, two leading figures of the Belgrade Pride Organization and LGBT activists, were forced into exile in fear for their lives.

The lower house of Poland's Parliament has adopted a law that limits pensions of officers that served in the Communist secret police, even though they were positively vetted in 1990. The bill specifies that the amount...