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Following the appeal by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) to the Minister of the Interior, on October 6 the Lithuanian Police Department changed the discriminatory provisions contained in its long-term...
Mikhail Stoyanov was found dead on October 1, 2008, in a park in Sofia, Bulgaria. He was a medical student in the last year of his studies. The defendants in the case, Alexander Georgiev and Radoslav Kirchev, were...
A lack of transparency still surrounds Europe's migrant detention camps, but the new booklet “The hidden face of immigration detention in Europe" attempts to raise awareness and shed more light on the situation within the camps.
More than two decades after lives were lost to see freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, protesters in Romania are forced to fight for it again, this time in front of the courts, making use of lawyerly tricks and procedural flaws.
The United Nations General Assembly has elected the Netherlands to the Human Rights Council for 2015-2017. According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders, who applauds the Dutch membership, “it underlines the...
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A study has found that mentally disabled Roma people in Lithuania suffer from social exclusion on two levels - not only is it difficult for them to find a place in society, the Roma community itself ignores their...
On October 22, Sofia City Court issued its refusal to extradite Russian dissident Nikolay Koblyakov, who was arrested on an Interpol arrest warrant on July 29 at Sofia airport. The Russian authorities wanted his...
On October 20, the conservative party submitted its proposal to the Seimas (Parliament) to add the Lithuanian Bishops' Conference to list of the founding members of the new public communications ethics association - a...
Incommunicado detention in Spain violates the European Convention on Human Rights, according to two recent rulings by the European Court of Human Rights.
The Italian Parliament has approved a new law that says a migrant without regular documents cannot be detained in a CIE (Center for Identification and Expulsion) for more than 90 days. According to the previous law,...
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