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...

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...

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

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...

Antonio Tajani, a former European commissioner and spokesperson for Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, was elected Tuesday to be the next president of the European Parliament. The Italian conservative politician was elected...

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.

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...