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Lawyer, specialized in criminal law and prison law. He is currently the president of the Central Prisons Supervisory Council and was formerly member and Vice-President of the CPT, President of the NGO Avocats sans frontières (Lawyers without Borders), and President of the Prison Commission at the Belgian League of Human Rights. He is also a Lecturer at the Universities of Liège and of Marseille-Aix-en-Provence, and is the author of numerous publications on criminal law and prison law.

Co-founder and director of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee. His organisation and himself have extensive experience in prison litigation before the European Court of Human Rights, including in landmark cases such as the pilot-judgment Neshov v. Bulgaria and the cases Dimcho Dimov v. Bulgaria, Palfreeman v. Bulgaria, M.G. v. Bulgaria, Kulinski and Sabev v. Bulgaria. He took part in the working group of the Ministry of Justice of Bulgaria for the reform of the legislation following the Neshkov judgment. He has visited more than 200 prisons and other places of detention in more than 20 countries of Europe, Middle East and Central Asia during monitoring.

Solicitor and founding partner at Bhatt Murphy Solicitors. He has practised in prison law since 1993 when he was appointed as the first solicitor to the Prisoners’ Advice Service. He was one of the first UK lawyers to specialise in this area and as well as conducting his own cases, through writing and education he has helped ensure that prison law is now seen as a distinct area of practice in its own right. He has particular specialism in life sentences, including whole life sentences and juveniles serving life sentences. Since 2020, Simon is also fee paid tribunal judge specialized on mental health issues.

Research fellow at the University of Florence and researcher in the Interuniversity Research Center L‘Altro diritto on Prison, Deviance, Marginality and Migration Governance. She coordinates the Legal Clinic on the European Court of Human Rights system of protection of rights. She is President of the NGO L‘Altrodiritto specialising on prisoners‘ rights, antidiscrimination law and migration law.

Lawyer at the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in Ukraine, with extensive experience of litigation before the European Court of Human Rights. She currently focuses on documenting war crimes, collecting evidence of their commission, and preparing individual and group cases for international mechanisms, in particular the International Criminal Court and UN treaty bodies.

Lawyer at the Paris Bar, President of the NGO Ban Public, and Board member of the NGO and board members of the Association of Lawyers for the Defence of Prisoners' Rights (A3D).

Full-time professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the Complutense University of Madrid. From 2005 to 2009 he was the Director of Criminal Measure Implementations of the Department of Justice of the Government of the Basque Country. From 2002 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2021 he has practiced criminal law and prison execution law. He was a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego in July and August 2019. He has published extensively on criminal law, prison implementation law, juvenile criminal law, terrorism, and restorative justice. One of his most renowned publications is “Manual de ejecución penitenciaria” (Handbook on Prison Implementation Rules), which reached ten editions. He is currently a researcher in a Project I+D+i PID2019-105778RB-I00 on Social Exclusion, Criminal Justice, and Systems of Incarceration: Analysis and Recommendations on Three Realities: Inmigration, Refuge, and Mental Illness and Prison.

Attorney specializing in human rights and international law with more than 15 years of professional experience. Besides being an attorney, Nicoleta is a co-founder of the Moldovan NGO Promo-LEX Association and an active human rights defender. She was involved in various projects related to combating ill-treatment and torture in prisons; drug laws and policies and their impact on the enjoyment of human rights; promoting human rights in the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria.

French magistrate.

Ukrainian human rights activist and former prisoner. He is the head of the NGO Protection for Prisoners of Ukraine (PPU) founded by former detainees who monitor fundamental rights in places of detention of Ukraine with the involvement of prisoners, former prisoners and relatives of prisoners. Since February 2022, PPU and EPLN have stepped up their cooperation as PPU is actively involved in the monitoring of fundamental rights in places of detention in territories under control of Russian troops.