How to Ensure That Prisoners Have Access to the Protection of Their Rights: an Online Conference on Prisoners’ Access to Justice

We are pleased to invite you to an online conference on #prisoners’ access to #justice, organised by the European Prison Litigation Network, the

The Torture Quasi-Compromise During Mobilisation: From “Busification” to Systemic Violations of Article 3 ECHR

The absolute prohibition of torture is an unconditional and immeasurably important idea of modern constitutionalism and international human rights law. It is not

Instrumentalisation of Migration, Ill-Treatment, and Deviant States

Contemporary migration crises – whether controlled, provoked, or spontaneously unfolding – arguably provide the most illustrative empirical material for studying the erosion of

Dmytro Yagunov, Andrii Chernousov: A New Draft Law Concerning Places of Detention: How Penitentiary Inspection Is Being Turned into Soviet-Style Oversight

On 8 June 2026, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft Law “On the Establishment of a

Mykola Gnatovskyy: The European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: Praestat Cautela Quam Medela

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

The Yagidne Case: The ECHR Informed the Russian Government of Complaints from Ukrainian Civilians Who Were Held in a School Basement for a Month

The European Court of Human Rights has served the Russian Government with the applications in Menyaylo and Others v. Russia and Lepekha and

‘There Are Simply Bad People’: Three Arguments Put Forward by ‘The Rock Regiment’ That Fall Apart in the Face of Article 3 of the Convention

Radio Svoboda (Radio Liberty), in its programme “Svoboda Live”, released a conversation with Andrii Surai, head of the civil-military cooperation group of the