When Punishment Becomes Torture: Protracted Solitary Confinement and the Boundaries of Article 3 of the Convention on Human Rights (Schmidt and Šmigol v. Estonia)

The case concerns the consecutive enforcement of disciplinary punishments against the applicants and the placing of the first applicant in a locked isolation

Silent Complicity of the State: How Strasbourg Once Again Protected a Prisoner from Informal Prison Laws

The case of Petrov v. The Republic of Moldova (Application No. 38066/18) concerns fundamental questions of human dignity, the prohibition of degrading treatment

New Detention Centre with 4,000 places in the Moscow Region: Relieving Pressure on the System or Preparing for a New Wave of Repression?

In early February 2026, the Main State Expert Review Board of the Russian Federation issued a positive opinion on the project to build

“No Face, No Responsibility? International Standards for Identifying Officials and the Practice of Mobilisation Detentions

In contemporary Ukrainian public discourse, the issue of actual detentions and the use of physical force by employees of territorial recruitment and social