The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic has issued a decision that will make it easier to invalidate contracts if it can be shown that the signee suffers from a mental disability.

The US Department of State's report on religious freedom in Romania emphasizes that representatives of other churches are discriminated against by Orthodox priests, who represent the majority. Discrimination takes a...

A recent decision by the Court of Appeal of Szeged called for the dissolution of the extremist Civil Guard Association For a Better Future, which has become known for its "patrolling" in Gyöngyöspata. The dissolution...

Umberto Postiglione, the director of an agency that manages the goods confiscated from mafia members, has proposed to use houses confiscated from the mafia for a new housing project. Mr. Postiglione, whose agency...

The Netherlands Committee of Jurists for Human Rights (NJCM) has launched an initiative through which it will denounce human rights violations in the Netherlands in the courts.

A military judge has decided to prosecute five soldiers (one of them a captain) for the crime of torture against two prisoners, committed in 2004 at a Spanish base in Iraq. The proceeding was initiated after a...

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) starts litigation against two major service providers in an attempt to force the Hungarian Constitutional Court (CC) to repeal an unlawful act.

Italian Minister of Interior Angelino Alfano, a member of the New Centre-Right party, is sending to all the Italian prefects a circular letter in which he proposes to cancel all the marriage registrations made by...

The police have employed fire hoses and teargas on protesters who were demonstrating in Naples against the BCE summit. Many anti-EU slogans could be heard during the demonstration.

Two young women have been refused access to a doctor in the Voghera hospital after they asked for the morning-after pill. A female nurse acknowledged that she was trying to save lives by preventing the women from...