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
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
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
The ‘Practically Worthless’ Limit: How the ECtHR Addressed Solitary Confinement Abuse in Estonian Prisons
In this case, the Court concluded that there had been a violation of Article 3 of the Convention in respect of all the
When Punishment Becomes Torture: Protracted Solitary Confinement and the Boundaries of Article 3 of the Convention on Human Rights (Schmidt and Šmigol v. Estonia)
The case concerns the consecutive enforcement of disciplinary punishments against the applicants and the placing of the first applicant in a locked isolation