The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has called on states to protect detained persons against intimidation and reprisals. In its recently published annual report, the CPT recalls that...
Inefficient use of money provided for the integration of refugees and unsatisfactory results in the provision of housing, access to employment, education and health are the most glaring findings of the Bulgarian...
The Régine Orfinger-Karlin Prize for 2014 has been awarded to the collective "Les Morts de la Rue" (The Dead of the Street) at a ceremony attended by Françoise Tulkens, former vice-president of the European Court of Human Rights.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has suspended the voting rights of Russia’s delegation as a show of condemnation for its role in the Ukraine crisis, although it did renew the delegation's...
A 57-year-old man from Pakistan, who has been living in Italy for many years, is now imprisoned in the Rebibbia jail in Rome to serve a sentence for drug trafficking he took part in 19 years ago. During those 19...
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The president of Lithuania has dismissed orphanages as Soviet-era relics and said children in the country are held hostage by the bureaucracy. Lithuania spends over 33 million euros each year on residential institutions for children.
On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), the Italian Coalition for Civil Rights and Freedoms (CILD) organized a conference in the Italian Senate on the extermination of the Roma people...
No access to an interpreter and lack of legal aid are the most common irregularities observed by the Polish Helsinki Foundation's (HFHR) lawyers during the monitoring of forced return procedures. "Foreigners were...
Ten years since Belgium passed a law promising better living conditions and a fairer disciplinary system for prisoners, many of its most important provisions have yet to be implemented.
According to the chairman of the Dutch Council for the Judiciary, people unable to pay fines are still taken hostage at the order of the Public Prosecution Office. This means is intended to compel those unwilling to...
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