Georgia’s government is refusing to transfer Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president now almost 50 days into a hunger strike, to a civilian hospital. The condition of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, now on the 49th day of a...
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Recent events in Poland have highlighted the country’s need to tackle police brutality, which some analysts link to the country’s political climate. On the...
Russia has raised eyebrows and attracted derision by filing its first ever interstate application at the European Court of Human Rights with a litany of charges against...
In December 2009, plainclothes police raided the offices of the Inclusive Foundation in Tbilisi, an organisation that campaigns for LGBT rights in Georgia. Two members...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has made a third ruling in favour of Azeri investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova (pictured above). The Azerbaijani...
Victory at ECHR for anti-corruption hero places Romania’s constitutional court in unwanted spotlight
Just days after being named as Emerging Europe’s Public Figure of the Year, Romanian Laura Codruţa Kövesi has won a landmark victory at the European Court of Human...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that a Moldovan activist’s conviction for using sculptures of genitals to protest against corruption was “manifestly...
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court has ruled that foreign, same-sex spouses must be granted residence permits by the country’s migration department, despite same-sex...
The High Court of Ireland has ordered that Polish man face trial in his native country despite finding “generalised and systemic” violations to the...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced on October 9 that it had rejected appeals by Lithuania and Romania against an earlier ruling that they were complicit...
