International Seminar “Discussions Around the Use of Solitary Confinement in Prisons” (May 8, 2026, University of Tübingen)

The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the European Court of Human Rights in collaboration with the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

Castes, Forced Labour, and the Failure to Protect: Petrov v. Moldova – A Landmark Case on Informal Prisoner Hierarchies

1. The applicant alleges that he belonged to the lowest caste of “pariahs” in the informal hierarchy that, according to him, prevails in

Sklyarenko v. Ukraine: Justice Delayed and the Price of Political Ambitions

On 30 April 2026, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Sklyarenko v. Ukraine. The Fifth Section unanimously found a

Institutional Darkness: The Inaction of the PCMRU and Odesa SIZO as a Systemic Dysfunction of Penitentiary Oversight (Proceedings in Case No. 420/9112/26)

2 April 2026, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Ukrayinskyy and Others v. Ukraine — 42 applicants, correctional colony