The national security service has been ordered to hand over statistics it claimed was classified after a court's decision that the information does not compromise state secrets.

The head of the Czech far-right group Block against Islam, Martin Konvicka, is accused of inciting hatred against Muslims in his Facebook posts. He faces the official charge of inciting hatred against a group of...

Women's and human rights organizations in Germany have formed the CEDAW-Alliance in order to compile a shadow report until 2017 about the implementation of the UN Women's Rights Convention (Convention on the...

Two inmates in an Italian prison were thrown into solitary confinement, stripped of their clothes, denied food and sleep, and beaten.

Macedonian police used tear gas on hundreds of refugees, most of them from Pakistan, who tried to enter Macedonia from Greece last week.

State Secretary for Security and Justice Klaas Dijkhoff wants a tougher approach to criminal refugees. Asylum seekers breaking the law will lose their residence permit sooner. Currently, a convicted asylum seeker...

A Polish man who accuses his therapist of rape has applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for redress after Polish courts did not consider his testimony reliable.

A Dutch court imposes a thirty-year prison sentence for murder because it finds the practice of life imprisonment in the Netherlands at odds with the Convention on Human Rights.

The reform to access to justice in Belgium provides worrying measures, including: abolition of the irrebuttable presumption of the state of need; more controls; and reduced remuneration of pro-bono lawyers. It is...

Criminal prosecution against 1,600 Facebook users will need to be initiated if the Hungarian Prosecutor's Office is to be consistent in implementing decisions. It all erupted when a post by an anonymous user made...