While Russia had established in 2008 a system of highly qualified specialists in prison matters and prison monitoring, the so-called “Public Monitoring Commissions”. This system is now on the verge of collapse, as a result of the replacement of human …
On 25 and 26 October 2019, former detainees, researchers, civil society leaders and lawyers will meet at the occasion of the European Lawyers’ Day in the Humboldt University in Berlin to discuss the issue of prison violence as is manifest in Western (Germany, …
. Common position of FIDH and EPLN 25 September 2019 Far from combating torture endemic in Russian prisons, in recent years the authorities have neutralised the independent mechanism that monitors places of deprivation of liberty, …
A coalition of leading Russian NGOs together with the European Prison Litigation Network submitted its observations to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in view of the examination of the implementation of the ECtHR judgement in the case Buntov v. …
