The House passed three of the twelve announced measures in the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the anti-terror operation in Verviers in January 2015.

Spain's new Citizen Security Law came into force on July 1 amid strong opposition from international institutions and NGOs. It has already caused the application of arbitrary sanctions, as in the case of a young man...

The man, who sold goods in the street, died after falling from a window of a building that was being searched by the Mossos D'Esquadra, the regional police of Catalonia. There are diverging versions about what actually happened.

The Polish Senate confirmed the appointment of Dr. Adam Bodnar, deputy president of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, to the position of the Human Rights Defender. Dr. Bodnar created HFHR's Strategic...

The creators of the song "Satan, Please," convicted of incitement to hatred and violence against children, seek to have their case tried fully. The court will have to decide if it this black humor protected by artistic self-expression or hate speech.

A Romanian woman was unlawfully detained in 2001 due to a series of judicial errors. After 15 years of legal proceedings before national and European courts, the errors were finally recognized.

After 15 years of court proceedings before the Court of Human Rights and Romanian national courts, Daniela Tarău was finally acquitted. Here is her side of the story.

At variance with the principle of legality, two Dutch State Secretaries want youth workers to be compelled to list on their invoices the medical details of their patients.

Poland lacks a systemic approach to the problem of statelessness, reads the latest report of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR). Unlike nearly all other EU states, Poland has yet to ratify the UN...

The unannounced destruction of a Roma camp in Wrocław is condemned by civil society, which warns that such an action raises serious doubt about human rights protections in Poland.