CPT Carries Out a Visit to Georgia
A delegation of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out
Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes report on its 2025 visit to the Netherlands
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has released the report on its October 2025 visit to the Netherlands, which focused
Odessa Pre-Trial Detention Center: The Prihibition of Torture is Absolute. No Exceptions
I have worked on the subject of torture and places of detention for many years, so there was no way I could not
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
CEP Workshop on Caseload and Workload: Supporting Sustainable Probation Through the Human Dimension (Bucharest, 27–28 May 2026)
The Confederation of European Probation (CEP) convened a two-day expert workshop in Bucharest on 27–28 May 2026, dedicated to one of the most
Rent on Prohibition of Sex Work: How State Generates Police Corruption
On 20 May 2026, the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Security Service of Ukraine conducted a large-scale anti-corruption operation targeting the
Isolation Behind Bars: ECtHR, CPT, and Academia Unite at Tübingen to Debate Solitary Confinement
On 8 May 2026, the Faculty of Law of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the Endowed Professorship of Crime Prevention and Risk Management
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
European Criminal Bar Association Holds Spring Conference on Barcelona
The European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) held its Spring Conference on 24–25 April 2026 in Barcelona, hosted in partnership with the Barcelona Bar
El Salvador’s Mass MS-13 Trial: Scale, Procedure, and Rights Concerns
On 21 April 2026, a Salvadoran court began the mass trial of over 400 alleged leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha criminal gang, commonly