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Russian dissident Nikolai Koblyakov, who is under house arrest in Sofia, has requested asylum in Bulgaria because of the threat of political persecution by the Russian government.
In August, the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice proposed a new structure for personal identification codes: a sequence of 11 randomly selected numbers. Currently, all Lithuanian personal codes adhere to a rigid internal...
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) condemns today’s police raids against Hungarian NGOs as politically motivated actions that elevate the illiberal Orban government’s attack against civil society to a new, unprecedented level.
The Belgian city of Namur is the latest municipality to pass a measure that effectively outlaws begging, despite it being officially decriminalized by the state in 1993.
The Juvenile Court of Rome has authorized the adoption of a child who lives with a same-sex (lesbian) couple and is the biological son of one of the partners. This is the first case of "stepchild adoption" in Italy....
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A recent emergency ordinance passed by the government of Romania - without parliamentary debate - suspends the application of a law for 45 days, thereby allowing mayors to change political parties without ramifications.
Spain's Constitutional Court has recently rejected complaints brought by applicants after their survivor's pensions were denied because they were not married to their partners. However, the marriages could not...
One of Budapest’s poorest districts has decided to “eliminate” the drug problem on its streets by forcing the closure of the largest needle exchange service in the area. This approach is both unsafe and ineffective, so HCLU offers a better solution.
After two years of waiting, the Greek Parliament will finally consider new anti-racism legislation. The legislation punishes public provocations to violence and hatred based on race, ethnicity, gender, etc., and...
Lithuania has been identified as one of the European countries providing assistance to the American CIA's rendition program, yet the country's prosecutors have declined to fully investigate the cases of torture.
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