01/10/2019
Published by Legal Dialogue at 01/10/2019
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia will prepare a bill designed for protection of police from disseminating "defamatory information" by January 2020.
Source: Novaya Gazeta
01/10/2019
Published by Legal Dialogue at 01/10/2019
Italian, Maltese, French and German interior ministers gathered in the Maltese capital, Valletta for an informal summit to draft an agreement for the distribution of asylum seekers rescued at sea.
Source: Euronews
10/10/2019
Published by Legal Dialogue at 10/10/2019
Romania’s second pick for the new European Commission, former Interior Minister Dan Nica, has not been approved for the list of hopeful EU commissioners.
Source: Balkan Insight
10/10/2019
Published by Legal Dialogue at 10/10/2019
Italy's parliament has voted to cut the number of representatives in both houses by more than a third.
Source: BBC
10/10/2019
Published by Legal Dialogue at 10/10/2019
The law introduced four years ago was designed to atone for Spain's 15th-century “historical wrong”.
Source: The Guardian
10/10/2019
Published by Legal Dialogue at 10/10/2019
Russian journalist Svetlana Prokopieva is charged with “justifying terrorism” after writing about the violation of human rights in Russia.
Source: Novaya Gazeta
10/10/2019
Published by Legal Dialogue at 10/10/2019
The bill, introduced by Scottish Greens, makes it a criminal offense to smack children and abolishes the legal defense of "reasonable chastisement" previously available to parents.
Source: Euronews
15/10/2019
Published by Legal Dialogue at 15/10/2019
Italian ministers, prosecutors and police chiefs have denounced a European court ruling that tough prison regimes for mafia bosses violate their human rights, warning the judgment will hinder the fight against organized crime across the continent.
Source: The Guardian
15/10/2019
Published by Legal Dialogue at 15/10/2019
Protests have erupted in Barcelona after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between 9 and 13 years in prison.
Source: BBC