The Human Rights Monitoring Institute was approached by a person whose pre-trial detention lasted for more than three months. "Three months without sleep," reminisces the man about how he felt while detained. "And not a single court hearing took place throughout this whole time," he adds.

More than once in the past, Italy has been reproached by international human rights intitutions because of Italian politicians' hate speeches. Lunaria, 21 Luglio and Antigone, three Italian human rights NGOs, have...

All 10 million prepaid phone card users in Romania will have to register within six months from the date of the adoption of the law, otherwise their service will be disabled.

The European Court of Human Rights found violations of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) and Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the European Convention on Human Rights in the case...

The recent torture and death of a prisoner by State security guards has left no doubt that reform is needed in Greek's prison system.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared the so-called Data Retention Directive to be invalid.

Today's judgment of the European Court Of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the Hungarian Church Act, during which the applicant churches were represented by the HCLU, holds that the Hungarian government violated human rights.

The implementation of the new Lithuanian Law on NGOs must be transparent The first Law to ever regulate non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Lithuanian history came into force on the 1st of April. The Law...

Lithuania takes its first step to ensuring equal recognition before the law for people with disabilities. Currently, a bundle of law amendments seeking to reform the status of incapacity (currently incompatible...

Hungarian Constitutional Court has examined the possibility of the total deprivation of rights for people living with disabilities. This constitutes a breach of human rights and is contradictory to Hungary's...