Topic
Freedom of association
02/06/2018
Published by Lev Levinson at 02/06/2018
One year after the ban on Jehowa’s Witnesses in Russia individual members are facing criminal prosecutions, with some of them detained
14/05/2018
Published by Dmitry Shabelnikov at 14/05/2018
The ECHR’s judgment in favor of the four applicants who had to stay in the airport’s transit zone for five to twenty-three months to be reviewed.
11/05/2018
Published by Natalia Smolentceva at 11/05/2018
As Ireland votes in a referendum, Legal Dialogue talks to Rebecca Gomperts, a medical doctor and human rights activist who has shifted the discussion on abortion rights not only in Ireland.
30/04/2018
Published by Alexandra Iwanowska at 30/04/2018
One part of the Polish society is trying to liberalize the abortion law, one of the most restrictive in Europe, while the other part, headed by the Polish Catholic church, insists on restrict it even more and make any abortion illegal.
19/04/2018
Published by Yuliia Schastlivtseva at 19/04/2018
The Russian State Duma aims at to block websites containing false and defamatory information. Human rights defenders warn that its initiative could become an instrument of censorship.
12/04/2018
Published by Natalia Smolentceva at 12/04/2018
Access Info Europe defends and promotes the right to know on the European continent. We met with them in Madrid to find out what has changed in field of access to information since 2006.
03/04/2018
Published by Dmitry Shabelnikov at 03/04/2018
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
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
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
"Foreign agents" law now enforced against Russian trade unions.
13/02/2018
Published by Stanislav Kuvaldin at 13/02/2018
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
How the government uses the law to repress Hungary's civic spirit. Joint statement of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and Hungarian Civil Liberties Union.