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On 8 June 2026, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft Law “On the Establishment of a
On 9 August 2026, Yevhen Stepanovych Hrytsiak turned one hundred years old – a native of the village of Stetseva in the Sniatyn
There is a venerable maxim to the effect that precaution is preferable to cure: praestat cautela quam medela. 1 Few arrangements within the European system for
At its 120th plenary session held in Strasbourg from 6 to 10 July 2026, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)
A delegation of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has released the report on its October 2025 visit to the Netherlands, which focused
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 most dangerous analytical error regarding Russian aggression against Ukraine is the assumption that it has a purely rational explanation lying in the