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📢 Our July–September 2025 European Prison Case Law Compilation is now available in 16 languages
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It provides a concise overview of the most important decisions from the ECtHR and the CJEU on prisoners’ rights.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
📢 Our July–September 2025 European Prison Case Law Compilation is now available in 16 languages
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📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
⚖ It covers key October 2025 judgments from @echr.coe.int !
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⚖ It covers key October 2025 judgments from @echr.coe.int !
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November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
⚖ It covers key October 2025 judgments from @echr.coe.int !
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⚖ It covers key October 2025 judgments from @echr.coe.int !
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October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
It covers key September 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights @echr.coe.int & the Court of Justice of the European Union on prison-related issues.
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It covers key September 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights @echr.coe.int & the Court of Justice of the European Union on prison-related issues.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
It covers key September 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights @echr.coe.int & the Court of Justice of the European Union on prison-related issues.
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It covers key September 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights @echr.coe.int & the Court of Justice of the European Union on prison-related issues.
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📢 Our April–June 2025 compilation of European Domestic Prison Legal News is out! It covers key prison-related legal developments in 14 EU countries + 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇷🇺.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
📢 Our April–June 2025 compilation of European Domestic Prison Legal News is out! It covers key prison-related legal developments in 14 EU countries + 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇷🇺.
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📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
It covers key July-August 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on prison-related issues.
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It covers key July-August 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on prison-related issues.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
It covers key July-August 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on prison-related issues.
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It covers key July-August 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on prison-related issues.
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EPLN & Public Verdict submitted reports to the 78th session of the UN CESCR, highlighting severe violations of prisoners’ rights in Russia.
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⚕️ Healthcare: prisoners denied timely treatment, continuity of care obstructed, torture concealed.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
EPLN & Public Verdict submitted reports to the 78th session of the UN CESCR, highlighting severe violations of prisoners’ rights in Russia.
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⚕️ Healthcare: prisoners denied timely treatment, continuity of care obstructed, torture concealed.
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📢 Our compilation of European Prison Case Law covering April–June 2025 is now available in 16 languages.
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September 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
📢 Our compilation of European Prison Case Law covering April–June 2025 is now available in 16 languages.
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September 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
It contains key June 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on detention-related issues!
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It contains key June 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on detention-related issues!
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August 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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It contains key June 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on detention-related issues!
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It contains key June 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on detention-related issues!
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📢 Landmark Opinion by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD): Russia’s detention and transfer of 6 Ukrainian prisoners after the full-scale invasion violated international law & standards.
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July 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
📢 Landmark Opinion by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD): Russia’s detention and transfer of 6 Ukrainian prisoners after the full-scale invasion violated international law & standards.
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"Facing overcrowding and inadequate psychiatric care, the prison system is under strain. But instead of offering relief, or even amnesties and pardons like her predecessors, Meloni is pressing harder."
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Giorgia Meloni wants more people in jail. Italy’s prisons are already on the brink.
Rome’s sweeping new security decree looks set to put more people behind bars, but overcrowded prisons can’t cope.
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July 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"Facing overcrowding and inadequate psychiatric care, the prison system is under strain. But instead of offering relief, or even amnesties and pardons like her predecessors, Meloni is pressing harder."
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July 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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📢 Out now: our May 2025 European prison case law roundup!
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🇷🇺 Journalist penalised after reporting on prison ill-treatment, an issue of "general interest": violation of Art 10
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June 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📢 Out now: our May 2025 European prison case law roundup!
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📢 Read our analysis of the CPT standards on informal prisoner hierarchy — a phenomenon still present in prison administrations shaped by Soviet-era legacies.
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June 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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June 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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📢 Our latest compilation of domestic prison legal news from across Europe is out!
It covers the most significant legal developments on prison-related issues that occurred between January and March 2025 in 14 EU countries, as well as in Ukraine, Moldova & Russia.
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It covers the most significant legal developments on prison-related issues that occurred between January and March 2025 in 14 EU countries, as well as in Ukraine, Moldova & Russia.
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May 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
📢 Our latest compilation of domestic prison legal news from across Europe is out!
It covers the most significant legal developments on prison-related issues that occurred between January and March 2025 in 14 EU countries, as well as in Ukraine, Moldova & Russia.
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It covers the most significant legal developments on prison-related issues that occurred between January and March 2025 in 14 EU countries, as well as in Ukraine, Moldova & Russia.
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📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
It covers key April 2025 judgments from the ECtHR & the CJEU on prison-related issues.
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It covers key April 2025 judgments from the ECtHR & the CJEU on prison-related issues.
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May 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
It covers key April 2025 judgments from the ECtHR & the CJEU on prison-related issues.
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It covers key April 2025 judgments from the ECtHR & the CJEU on prison-related issues.
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Heute um 10 Uhr in Berlin: Präsentation des #GrundrechteReport 2025 mit Livestream.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Heute um 10 Uhr in Berlin: Präsentation des #GrundrechteReport 2025 mit Livestream.
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Saisi par des organisations dont la #LDH & @oipsectionfr.bsky.social le Conseil d’Etat a tranché : l’interdiction générale des activités “ludiques ou provocantes” en détention décrétée par le ministre de la Justice est illégale
www.lemonde.fr/socie...
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Le Conseil d’Etat annule l’interdiction annoncée par Gérald Darmanin des « activités ludiques » en prison
Dans sa décision, la plus haute juridiction administrative a estimé que le garde des sceaux ne pouvait « interdire par principe des activités conformes au code pénitentiaire » au motif qu’elles seraient « ludiques ».
www.lemonde.fr
May 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Saisi par des organisations dont la #LDH & @oipsectionfr.bsky.social le Conseil d’Etat a tranché : l’interdiction générale des activités “ludiques ou provocantes” en détention décrétée par le ministre de la Justice est illégale
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April 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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📢Join us as a Legal Monitor & contribute to strengthening prisoners’ rights!
🔍We are looking for volunteers to contribute to our legal updates on European prison law by monitoring key legal developments on prison-related issues.
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April 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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April 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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📢 EPLN joined forces with 5 Ukrainian NGOs to file a third-party intervention to the ECtHR.
We argue that UA's system of medical release for seriously ill prisoners suffers from systemic failures & call on the ECtHR to require Ukraine to reform it.
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We argue that UA's system of medical release for seriously ill prisoners suffers from systemic failures & call on the ECtHR to require Ukraine to reform it.
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April 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
📢 EPLN joined forces with 5 Ukrainian NGOs to file a third-party intervention to the ECtHR.
We argue that UA's system of medical release for seriously ill prisoners suffers from systemic failures & call on the ECtHR to require Ukraine to reform it.
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We argue that UA's system of medical release for seriously ill prisoners suffers from systemic failures & call on the ECtHR to require Ukraine to reform it.
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📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
It covers key March 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on prison-related issues.
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It covers key March 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on prison-related issues.
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April 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
It covers key March 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on prison-related issues.
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It covers key March 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on prison-related issues.
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