In response to the restriction of freedom of expression during the advertising campaign of a clothing line, the Human Rights Monitoring Institute submitted an application to the European Court of Human Rights on the designer's behalf.

There has been more violence in Rome expressing a fascist mood of intolerance. After the attack against the center for migrants of Tor Sapienza, the latest show of hate was directed at the supporters of soccer team...

Thanks to a multi-million forint investment, a district in Budapest is fully covered by surveillance cameras. Does it represent a revolutionary advancement in security, or an invasive security program forced on the public?

A monument to Georgi Markov was recently unveiled in Sofia’s Journalist Square. Markov was a Bulgarian dissident, author and journalist murdered in London in 1978 in an act widely suspected to be the work of communist...

The criticism directed at a Croatian professor for sharing his thoughts on the country's independence referendum is a reminder that we must stand against persecution and intimidation as tools to silence those with different opinions.

In response to the recent arson attack on the newspaper Athens Voice, as well as in response to every similar attempt to use violence as a means to confront opinions and ideas, The Hellenic League for Human Rights...

Responding to Prime Minister David Cameron's speech announcing new counter-terror proposals, Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: "Dumping suspect citizens like toxic waste is a very strange way ...

A journalist's arrest and beating is the latest in a string of violent acts by Romanian police officers against civilians. Civil society is demanding a full investigation and the closure of one station notorious for abuses.

Czech Roma children are still grouped into schools for the mentally disabled, despite a Court of Human Rights ruling from seven years ago that declared the practice illegal.

Pope Francis has ordered the construction of showers in the restrooms under the colonnade in St. Peter's Square, to be used by the homeless. "In Rome it is easier to find a sandwich than a place for washing oneself,"...