To download the PDF version of the article please click here. PART I – THE FRAMEWORK OF GUARANTEES GRANTED BY ARTICLE 5§1(c), 5§3 AND 5§4 Article 5 of the Convention is, together with Articles 2, 3[1] and 4, in the …
To download the PDF version of the article please click here. Initially taken into account through what was referred to as “indirect” protection[1]—as early as 1962 the European Commission of Human Rights affirmed that article 3 can be applied in …
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, …
