📢 Our latest compilation of domestic prison legal news from across Europe is out! It covers key prison-law developments between July-September 2025 in 15 EU countries, as well as Ukraine and Russia. 🔗 buff.ly/gWLpWVt (1/4) ⤵️

📢 The CoE Committee of Ministers is reviewing implementation of ECtHR judgments. Our latest submission highlights urgent structural failings in Ukraine’s prison healthcare: barriers to care, high mortality, and ineffective complaint mechanisms. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/d1U0VHU

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📢 Our July–September 2025 European Prison Case Law Compilation is now available in 16 languages 🇧🇬/🇨🇿/🇩🇪/🇪🇸/🇫🇷/🇬🇧/🇬🇷/🇭🇺/🇮🇹/🇱🇹/🇳🇱/🇵🇱/🇵🇹/🇷🇴/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 It provides a concise overview of the most important decisions from the ECtHR and the CJEU on prisoners’ rights. 🔗 buff.ly/BxTDsad ⤵️

📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out! ⚖ It covers key October 2025 judgments from @echr.coe.int ! 🔗 buff.ly/fuItFCK 🔎In this issue ⤵ (1/3)

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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. 🔗 buff.ly/BMHGQEn 🔎 In this issue ⤵ (1/3)

📢 Our April–June 2025 compilation of European Domestic Prison Legal News is out! It covers key prison-related legal developments in 14 EU countries + 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇷🇺. 🔗 buff.ly/h64LpnG #Prison #HumanRights #CriminalJustice #Europe

📢 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. 🔗 buff.ly/CtmVXtU 🔎In this issue ⤵️

EPLN & Public Verdict submitted reports to the 78th session of the UN CESCR, highlighting severe violations of prisoners’ rights in Russia. 🔗 buff.ly/L6cf1lT ⚕️ Healthcare: prisoners denied timely treatment, continuity of care obstructed, torture concealed. ⤵️ (1/3)

📢 Our compilation of European Prison Case Law covering April–June 2025 is now available in 16 languages. ➡ 🇧🇬 🇨🇿 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇬🇷 🇭🇺 🇮🇹 🇱🇹 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Take a look on our website & subscribe for regular updates! 🔗 www.prisonlitigation.org/legal-resour...

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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! 🔗 buff.ly/haUKXUc 🧵(1/3)

📢 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. 🔗 www.prisonlitigation.org/articles/wga... (1/3) ⤵️

"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." www.politico.eu/article/gior...

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📢 Out now: our May 2025 European prison case law roundup! 🔗 www.prisonlitigation.org/legal-resour... 🔍In this issue: 🇷🇺 Journalist penalised after reporting on prison ill-treatment, an issue of "general interest": violation of Art 10 (1/2)⤵️

📢 Read our analysis of the CPT standards on informal prisoner hierarchy — a phenomenon still present in prison administrations shaped by Soviet-era legacies. 🔗 buff.ly/zfa5DEB (1/3) ⤵️

📢 Read our analysis of the CPT standards on informal prisoner hierarchy — a phenomenon still present in prison administrations shaped by Soviet-era legacies. 🔗 buff.ly/zfa5DEB (1/3) ⤵️

📢 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. 🔗 lnkd.in/drPTzZmw In this issue⤵️

📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out! It covers key April 2025 judgments from the ECtHR & the CJEU on prison-related issues. 🔗 www.prisonlitigation.org/legal-resour... In this issue ⤵️

Heute um 10 Uhr in Berlin: Präsentation des #GrundrechteReport 2025 mit Livestream. Alle Infos: www.grundrechtekomitee.de/details/praesentation-des-grundrechtereports-2025

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... Lire le communiqué : www.ldh-france.org/a...#LDH

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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. 📃 Read more buff.ly/teYxW9s ⤵️

📢 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. 🔗 buff.ly/UFXHJBr in this issue ⤵️

He: -is 70 years old -is nearly blind -uses a wheelchair -has taken anger management classes & drug treatment -had a clean disciplinary record. But because he drank while on community supervision 30 years ago he's no longer eligible for parole. veritenews.org/2025/04/10/t...

Alberta is moving ahead with a bill allowing forced addiction treatment for those deemed a danger to themselves or others. Critics warn it may violate rights and lead to higher overdose risks, arguing that involuntary treatment often causes more harm than good. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

„This requires a Project 2025 for Democracy“

The Trump administration's assault on the rule of law is increasingly focusing on institutions of knowledge and law. VICKI C. JACKSON (@harvard.edu) on a "multipronged attack", why knowledge institutions are crucial for democracies - and why it is time to resist. verfassungsblog.de/education-de...

Why Shabana Mahmood is both wrong and foolish to attack the Sentencing Council reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/03/why-...

Wir wünschen allen Teilnehmer*innen einen guten und kämpferischen #StVT46. In Zeiten autoritärer Umbrüche gilt es, den Rechtsstaat gemeinsam zu verteidigen.

'Green' is great, but why oh why are you building these massive #prisons ?? And so far away from the #cities where most of their inhabitants come from? #MegaPrisons=MegaProblems

Justice secretary threatens to override new guidelines on requesting pre-sentence reports www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NB: ils veulent pas expulser Georges Abdallah au Liban... #FreeGeorgesAbdallah

Suspending Hungarian citizenship for dual nationals, violations of freedom of assembly and the attempt to ban Pride🏳️‍🌈 -- the Orbán government is escalating its efforts to stifle dissent and weaken human rights protections in Hungary🇭🇺. Our 2 new briefs explain the plans ➡️ helsinki.hu/en/legislati...

« Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal » www.404media.co/facial-recog...

📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out! ⚖️ It covers key February 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights & the Court of Justice of the European Union on prison-related issues. 🔗 www.prisonlitigation.org/legal-resour... ⤵️

"For more than twenty years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Oslo paid millions of kroner for cooperation with Russia's penitentiary institutions that nowadays keep political prisoners under barbaric conditions"

Alarm over early re-release of recalled prisoners as jail overcrowding crisis deepens

Our Auto-Archiver tool allows you to archive any content on the internet by pasting a URL. In 15 minutes Bellingcat's @msramalho.bsky.social and developers Erin Clark and Paddy Robertson will be live, demoing new updates to the tool and answering your set up questions. discord.gg/Gm6cghPG?eve...

Excellent piece. “While we all sheltered at home, prisons used COVID as a way to say, ‘We’re going to lock you in your cells for 23 to 24 hours a day.’ Readers can imagine being locked in the smallest bathroom in their house.” This is what happened to me in 2021.

What should human rights advocates do at this grim moment? At the invitation of the RARE/rights advocacy training (www.hertie-school.org/en/customise...), I suggest 5 routes. They centre around 3 words: populists are predictable. 🙏 @ourruleoflaw.bsky.social www.ourruleoflaw.eu/blog/rearmin...

“Rather than holding Saudi Arabia accountable for such extreme violations, the international community remains silent & even rewarded the kingdom with hosting the 2034 World Cup.” World executions for drug convictions up 32%: new @harmreductionintl.bsky.social report. By @matthabusby.bsky.social:

A federal judge has enjoined the execution method of nitrogen asphyxiation in Louisiana, stating the petitioner had “clearly shown that he is substantially likely to prove that nitrogen hypoxia poses a substantial risk of conscious terror and psychological pain”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Den ganzen Artikel gibt’s hier: taz.de/Fahren-ohne-...

⚠️L'Europe doit agir pour sauvegarder la société civile face au gel de l’aide américaine⚠️ De nombreuses organisations voient aujourd’hui leur survie menacée. EPLN & des ONG de premier plan, dont 2 prix Nobel de la paix, appellent l'UE à intervenir. 🔗 www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... ⤵️

⚠️ Europe Must Act to Safeguard Civil Society Amid USAID Funding Freeze⚠️ EPLN & leading NGOs—including two Nobel Peace Prize winners—call on the EU to support civil society following the U.S. aid freeze. 🔗 www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... ENG version www.prisonlitigation.org/articles/op-... ⤵️