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

The Pre-Trial Centre as an Invisible Source of Harm in the Model of Impersonal State Liability

There is a category of legal issues that are both well-known and systematically ignored. Compensation for non-pecuniary damage caused by unlawful criminal prosecution

“We’re Implementing Reforms — But We Won’t Show You the Statistics”: Odessa Pre-Trial Detention Center Denies Access to Public Information

On 10 April 2026, the Odesa District Administrative Court opened proceedings in Case No. 420/9112/26. The claimant is Dmytro Yagunov, a lawyer, human

Lecture for the Latvian Legal Community: Torture, ECHR Standards, ECtHR Case Law and the Impact of Russian Aggression on the Ukrainian Justice System

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Latvia for the invitation and for

Prolonged Administrative Solitary Confinement of a Terrorism Detainee: No Violation of Articles 3 and 13 (Sekour v. France, application no. 52496/19)

In Sekour v. France, the European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section) delivered its judgment on 12 March 2026, examining whether the prolonged