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Croatian Media Reports on 'Torture Garage' for Migrants

The online news outlet H-alter reports that, over the past six months, many eye-witness accounts have emerged suggesting that Croatian police are detaining and torturing refugees and migrants in a garage at the police...

Croatia , migrants , migration , torture , police , refugees
May 24, 2019 • Centre for Peace Studies - Croatia
Tortured Ethiopian Refugee Wins Backing of UN Committee

On 24 January The UN Committee against Torture made a decision on the case of an Ethiopian refugee who was to be deported from Switzerland to Italy, after he took legal action three years earlier.

UN , Ethiopia , Italy , Switzerland , torture , migration , asylum
February 27, 2019 • Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights
EU Complicit in Human Rights Abuses in Libya

A new report by Human Rights Watch accuses the EU of supporting Libya’s anti-migrant policies, which are contributing to a cycle of “extreme abuse”, including arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence, extortion...

migration , EU , Libya , Human Rights Watch , detention , torture
January 21, 2019 • LibertiesEU
"Billy el Niño" Gets Away with Torture Again

The Provincial Court of Madrid has confirmed Juan Antonio González Pacheco, who was an inspector of the Political-Social Brigade during Franco's regime, cannot be put on trial for torture.

Spain , torture , law
November 19, 2018 • Rights International Spain
ECtHR: Lithuania Violated Right to Freedom from Torture and Right to a Fair Trial

The European Court of Human Rights has found that Lithuania violated Article 3 (freedom from torture) and Article 6 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights in the case of TK v. Lithuania....

Lithuania , torture , Article 3 ECHR , Article 6 ECHR
June 18, 2018 • Human Rights Monitoring Institute
Lithuania Violated Human Rights by Participating in CIA Secret Detention Program

The European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled that Lithuania cooperated with the United States in carrying out torture and other human rights violations against a suspected terrorist.

ECHR , Lithuania , Abu Zubaydah , torture , human rights violation
June 11, 2018 • Human Rights Monitoring Institute
Lithuania and Romania Complicit in CIA Torture, Strasbourg Court Rules

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Lithuania and Romania violated the rights of two terror suspects by allowing the US CIA to torture them. American forces captured Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim...

torture , cia , Romania , Lithuania
June 01, 2018 • LibertiesEU
Top EU Court Says Torture Victims May Have Right to Asylum

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 24 April ruled that the European Convention on Human Rights affords protection if an asylum seeker with severe effects from past torture would be "significantly and...

ECJ , Court of Justice , UK , torture , asylum
April 25, 2018 • LibertiesEU
To Fight Torture & Impunity, Police Officers Must Be Easily Identifiable

States have an obligation under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to put in place safeguards to protect people from torture and ill-treatment.

Spain , police , ECHR , ECtHR , Court of Human Rights , Abuse , torture , impunity
March 19, 2018 • Rights International Spain
Another Case of Police Violence, Another Guilty Verdict Against Romania

Victor Stanciu, a 60-year-old man, was taken from his home by two police officers to Police Station no. 19 in Bucharest, where he was beaten, allegedly for refusing to show his ID.

Romania , European Court , Police violence , torture , ECHR , ECtHR , Abuse
January 24, 2018 • The Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Romania – the Helsinki Committee
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