“No Violations Found”: When Documents of the Odessa Pre-Trial Prison Contradict the CPT Reports

I recently received responses from the Odesa Pre-Trial Detention Centre to a lawyer’s request concerning conditions of detention — and these responses prompt

Dmytro Yagunov: The Strategic Instrumentalisation of “Traditional Values” in Russian Colonialism

The most dangerous analytical error regarding Russian aggression against Ukraine is the assumption that it has a purely rational explanation lying in the

Institutional Continuity: Sexual Violence as a Systemic Practice of the Russian State from the Empire to the Present Day

On 29 May 2026, the Secretary-General of the United Nations released his annual report on conflict-related sexual violence. For the first time, the

The Punitive Cell. Solitary Confinement at the Intersection of Criminology, Law, and Human Rights

Solitary confinement – the isolation of a prisoner from meaningful human contact for twenty-two or more hours per day – remains one of