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We are pleased to invite you to an online conference on #prisoners’ access to #justice, organised by the European Prison Litigation Network, the Themistocles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation – Centre for European Constitutional Law, the Human Rights Centre ZMINA and Forum Penal.
🗓️ 21 September, 13:00 CET
📍 Online
💬 Simultaneous interpretation in ENG / EL / ES / FR / IT / PT / UA
Registration ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eXWiNiQT
The full programme will be published on website in the coming days 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d57SuPnq
Over the past decades, #prison legal frameworks have considerably expanded prisoners’ ability to access #justice. Yet far less attention has been paid to the practical conditions that actually allow prisoners to exercise that right.
Building on the findings of the DIGNITY – EU Project, the conference will bring together legal practitioners from civil society organisations and bar associations, former detainees, researchers and international experts to examine the structural, procedural and financial barriers that stand in the way of prisoners’ effective access to legal assistance.
Among the questions to be discussed: How do prisoners obtain relevant legal information and identify rights violations in a field where domestic, European and international legal frameworks overlap? How do they navigate multiple procedures, each with its own admissibility criteria and rules? How do prisoners secure evidence and cope with the practical challenges of the adversarial relationship inherent in proceedings against the prison administration? What role do lawyers and civil society play in enabling access to justice from within detention? And how do growing attacks on fundamental Rule of Law principles affect prisoners’ ability to exercise their procedural rights?
The conference will address these questions and consider avenues for action at the European level.
Speakers include:
- Benoit David, Member of the Paris Bar Council
- Nancy Dekens, Secretary, Nederlandse Vereniging van Strafrechtadvocaten
- Vânia Costa Ramos, Chair of the European Criminal Bar Association, member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Ioulietta Bisiouli, Director of the European Implementation Network (EIN)
- Dmytro Yagunov, Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Marc Nève, President of the Conseil central de surveillance pénitentiaire – Centrale Toezichtsraad voor het Gevangeniswezen
- Hanna Skrypka, Lawyer at the NGO “Protection for Prisoners of Ukraine”
- Mariarosaria Guglielmi, President of European Judges for Democracy and Liberties (MEDEL)
- Corentin Durand, Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research
- Marina Daliani, Vice President of the Hellenic League for Human Rights
- Salvador Guerrero Palomares, Chair of the Criminal Law Committee of the CCBE
