Back in October, three prisoners escaped from Rome's Rebibbia prison. The three men used an old and almost romantic system to accomplish their mission: they cut the bars of the cells and climbed down using some bed...

The UK government is breaking the law by indiscriminately collecting citizens' internet activity and phone records and giving hundreds of public bodies access to these personal details with no suspicion of serious...

Belarus’s human rights record has caused a sports coalition, the Sports and Rights Alliance, to voice their concern about holding the 2019 European Games in Minsk. In a letter to the European Olympic Committees, they...

The award, given in part by the Italian National Olympic Committee, was given for the sports club's outstanding efforts in the field of integration.

The 2016 Régine Orfinger-Karlin Award has been given to a boxing club in Brussels that prevents radicalization by supporting young people from poorer areas.

The fourth Pride in Podgorica finished without any incidents and according to the organizers' plan, media in Montenegro reported. "With this Pride, we seek the support of those we love the most – fathers,...

The rights of EU nationals in the UK are not bargaining chips during Brexit negotiations, a parliamentary watchdog has warned the prime minister. The status of the estimated 2.9 million people from the EU living in...

The European Court of Human Rights has found Belgium guilty of inhuman and degrading treatment against a Georgian national who was critically ill.

European Digital Rights (EDRi) has presented its 2016 awards, the "first ever third edition" of the annual awards event. This year's awards ranged from the "'Humpty Dumpty Award' for the most silly 'statistics'" –...

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published its reports on return flights of migrants from Spain and Italy.