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...
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.
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...
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.
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....
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
