03/04/2018
Published by Dmitry Shabelnikov at 03/04/2018

Prisoner No. 7

Seventy years after Raoul Wallenberg's disappearance in the Lubyanka prison, his family is suing the FSB for access to prison archives.
01/03/2018
Published by Natalia Smolentceva at 01/03/2018

Nani Jansen Reventlow: “Time to fight back for our digital rights”

All over Europe, digital rights are under attack, and numerous organizations are already advocating and going to court to protect human rights in the digital sphere. To facilitate collaboration between digital rights actors and provide funds for strategic litigation for that cause, Digital Freedom Fund was established in Berlin.
19/02/2018
Published by Dmitry Shabelnikov at 19/02/2018

It is like that phrase “don’t think about white bear”

Polish law professor Monika Platek reflects on the controversial Polish law on criminal liability for publicly implicating the state or people of Poland in Nazi crimes.
15/02/2018
Published by Yuliia Ostrovskaya at 15/02/2018

Dissolved for international solidarity

"Foreign agents" law now enforced against Russian trade unions.
13/02/2018
Published by Stanislav Kuvaldin at 13/02/2018

A Legal Battle against History

Poland outlaws public mention of the "Polish people or State's responsibility for the Third Reich’s crimes."
09/02/2018
Published by Legal Dialogue at 09/02/2018

Operation starve & strangle

How the government uses the law to repress Hungary's civic spirit. Joint statement of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and Hungarian Civil Liberties Union.
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  • The upskirting victim campaigning to change the law
    19/06/2018
    Gina Martin campaigned for the law to be changed after two men took a picture up her skirt at a festival. But one Conservative MP has blocked the attempt to make upskirting a criminal offence in England and Wales.
    Source: bbc.com
  • Refugee stands trial in Germany over alleged murder of teen
    19/06/2018
    Fifteen-year-old Mia was stabbed to death in the southwestern town of Kandel last December. Her ex-boyfriend, a refugee, has been charged with her murder, triggering a series of anti-migrant protests.
    Source: dw.com
  • Spanish PM to return free healthcare to irregular immigrants
    19/06/2018
    The Government of Pedro Sánchez wants to come back to the situation of 2012, when all residents in Spain had the right to free public healthcare. From that year immigrants without documents were excluded from the ordinary healthcare system.
    Source: elpais.com
  • The referendum in Ireland is going to exclude the notion of blasphemy from the Constitution
    19/06/2018
    The Government of Ireland announced that in October 2018, at the same time as the presidential elections, a nationwide referendum will be held to remove the concept of blasphemy from the country's Constitution. It is fixed in the document for over eighty years, and is supported by an article punishing up to 25 thousand euros. As of now, no one has been condemned for it.
    Source: meduza.io
  • Moscow raises retirement age and VAT
    19/06/2018
    On the very day that the Fifa World Cup kicked off the Russian government announced plans to raise the retirement age step by step from 60 to 65 for men and from 55 to 63 for women. Value added tax is also to go up from 18 to 20 percent.
    Source: eurotopics.net
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