Standards. Case Law. Approaches. Opinions
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the European Court of Human Rights in collaboration with the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
2 April 2026, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Ukrayinskyy and Others v. Ukraine — 42 applicants, correctional colony
A video report on the ‘Black Dolphin’ penal colony (IK-6, Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast), filmed with the explicit permission of the prison administration, is
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
The Ukrainian probation service emerged from reformist rhetoric and developed in the shadow of bureaucratic self-perpetuation. The 2015 Law ‘On Probation’ was presented
I recently carried out what might seem like a routine administrative procedure — I sent an information request to the Department for the
I recently submitted a public information request to the Ministry of Justice and the South-Central Interregional Directorate for the Enforcement of Criminal Sentences.
In early February 2026, the Main State Expert Review Board of the Russian Federation issued a positive opinion on the project to build
‘It was by no means our intention to praise the probation system with lyrical enthusiasm. Rather, we wanted to examine it sensibly and
When we talk about the thorny path of the Ukrainian penitentiary system and the corresponding penitentiary reform — and the fact that it