Prison populations are ageing but facilities and care are not keeping up with the change. HFHR has submitted an amicus curiae brief to the ECtHR in the case of an 80 year-old woman who claimed her rights were violated while in detention.

The campaign was intended to discredit judges who have criticized the government's takeover of the judiciary.

A number of international organisations have intervened in a European Court of Human Rights case after Polish authorities denied Polish citizenship to the children of a same-sex couple, one of whom is a Polish citizen himself.

​The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and the Forum for Human Rights intervened in a case before the European Court of Human Rights. The case concerns a boy with special educational needs who experienced discrimination at a public school in Romania.

The Hungarian government is waging a propaganda war against Finland in order to undermine the latter's credibility when the EU resumes Article 7 proceedings against Hungary.

Finland holds the EU Presidency and has vowed to prioritize strengthening the rule of law. That doesn’t sit well with the Hungarian government, which has launched a propaganda war led by its blogger-in-chief.

Changes in the Polish justice system introduced over the last four years are being used to increase pressure on judges, according to the HFHR study “The Time of Trial. How do changes in justice system affect Polish judges?”

CIVICUS Monitor update on Spain - August 2019

In an important judgement delivered in July, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) stated that forced catheterisation was a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights on the prohibition of torture.

A Polish appeals court has changed the verdict of the District Court and ruled in favour of the claimant, who had been forced to take out loans as the lower court refused to return his money.