The Court found that Yuriy Lenev’s injuries had been characteristic of bodily harm inflicted intentionally for the purpose of obtaining a confession and that the Bulgarian courts had failed to give a plausible explanation of the origin of those injuries.
Human rights commissioner Nils Muižnieks has raised concerns about torture and the ill-treatment of prisoners in a letter to Georgia’s Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Overcrowding remains a major problem in the Bulgarian prison system, according to a new report from the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT).
The case of Michaud v. France concerns the obligation on lawyers to report “suspicions” concerning clients’ possible unlawful activities, as part of the European drive to combat money laundering.
In this podcast, Roser Sune Pascuet, Andorra’s education and youth minister, explains why her country has made citizenship and democracy a priority during its chiarmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers.
