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 …
On 17 October, EPLN presented its report on torture in Russian prisons, as well as Russian-controlled prisons in occupied Ukraine, during the 136th session of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva. >> READ OUR FULL SUBMISSION TO THE COMMITTEE …
