Standards. Case Law. Approaches. Opinions
The incident that occurred in the Odesa pre-trial detention centre (SIZO) and that, in a very strange way, came to light and drew
I have worked on the subject of torture and places of detention for many years, so there was no way I could not
I recently received responses from the Odesa Pre-Trial Detention Centre to a lawyer’s request concerning conditions of detention — and these responses prompt
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the European Court of Human Rights in collaboration with the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
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
I recently carried out what might seem like a routine administrative procedure — I sent an information request to the Department for the
When we talk about the thorny path of the Ukrainian penitentiary system and the corresponding penitentiary reform — and the fact that it
More than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual
On Chapter 23 “Justice and fundamental rights” and Chapter 24 “Justice, Freedom and Security” of the European Commission’s Report on Ukraine’s Progress under