Despite the fact that two Bulgarian courts had blocked the deportation of Turkish citizen Abdullah Buyuk, saying that he was wanted for "political reasons" in Turkey and that he could not be guaranteed a fair trial,...

The District Court of The Hague has ordered the Dutch government to allow a prisoner serving a life sentence to participate in a resocialization program 1.5 year before his sentence comes up for review. This is to...

The Romanian Intelligence Service was granted millions in European funding in order to set up a system that will allow it to conduct mass surveillance on citizens.

A foreign jurist who works with the International Criminal Court on possible war crimes between Israel and Palestine has received death threats while working in the Netherlands.

Poland's minister of justice, Zbigniew Ziobro, who is also the country's prosecutor general, has issued an official statement regarding the judgment of the Regional Court of Łódż against a printer, ordering him to pay...

Over a third of Italian inmates are still awaiting trial, according to a new report on Italy's prison population. The findings shine a light on the need for the country to invest in alternatives to pre-trial detention.

In Germany, all safeguards against discrimination are anchored in the Constitution and in the General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz - "AGG"). To mark the 10th anniversary of the AGG, the...

The Dutch Democratic Party (D66), Labour Party (PvdA) and Green Party (GroenLinks) have proposed a bill in which the rights of sexual minorities, like transgenders and intersexuals, would be better protected. The bill...

Feedback from foreigners who seek international protection in Poland suggests that the Polish Border Guard have been denying entry to many for several weeks now.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority received 500 phone calls over the last year and a half about privacy in education. By coincidence, parents find out that information about their children has been shared with other...