Ratko Mladić, the former Commander of the Main Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army, was convicted in November 2017 of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war.

The Spanish Supreme Court has confirmed the one-year prison sentence against five young people who interrupted a church mass in February 2014 to protest against reforms to Spain's abortion law. They were found guilty...

Germany’s opposition parties on 7 January called for the repeal of a new law that aims to eliminate hate speech on social media. Their primary concern is that private companies should not be making decisions about the...

A total of 312 human rights defenders were killed in 27 countries last year, according to a new report by Front Line Defenders. Eighty percent of killings occurred in four countries – Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and...

The winners of the CILD Civil Liberties Awards have been announced! Meet these ordinary - and yet extraordinary - individuals.

A court in the Netherlands in December convicted an aide to a former Ethiopian dictator and sentenced him to life in prison for war crimes carried out during Ethiopia’s 'red terror' purges of the 1970s, including...

Liberties member Antigone has released its fourth report on Italian penal institutions for minors, entitled 'Guardiamo oltre' (Look Beyond).

Krassimir Kanev, the chairman of Liberties member the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee​, analyses the role of human rights in the Bulgarian government's Programme for the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Bulgaria’s president has vetoed the Parliament’s anti-corruption bill a day after the country started its half-year EU presidency. Rumen Radev said in a statement that the adopted law not only does not create an...

Changes aiming to fight so-called radical Islam are discriminatory and may lead to the stigmatisation of large groups of people - not only Muslims, but members of other religious communities as well.