On 17 March 2023, at a side event during the 66th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, a coalition of prisoners’ rights defenders, community activists and other stakeholders, called on States to ensure equivalence of care for people who use drugs …
Informal prison hierarchy undermines detainees’ dignity in breach of Article 3 of the ECHR. Authorities did nothing to protect the “outcasts”. European Court’s judgment of 2 May 2023 in the case of S.P. and Others v. Russia (applications nos. 36463/11 …
DIGNITY, Protection for Prisoners of Ukraine (PPU), the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG), Ukraine Without Torture (UBT) and EPLN have joined forces to publish a report on places of detention in areas of Ukraine under Russian occupation. Based on …
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CMCE) has expressed strong reservations about the life sentence review mechanism recently introduced by the Ukrainian authorities. In doing so, it echoed some of the criticisms made by EPLN, the Kharkiv …
