European Prison Litigation Network
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Defending and advancing prisoners’ fundamental rights across Europe
💥 Prison news
🔹 CoE SPACE II stats show a 2.3% rise in probationers (2023–24).
🔹 CoE CDPC approved the draft revised Recommendation Rec(89)12 on education in prison.
🔹 EU 2025 Ukraine report notes persistent torture in prisons
🔹 EU Civil Society Strategy published!
& more!
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🔹 CoE SPACE II stats show a 2.3% rise in probationers (2023–24).
🔹 CoE CDPC approved the draft revised Recommendation Rec(89)12 on education in prison.
🔹 EU 2025 Ukraine report notes persistent torture in prisons
🔹 EU Civil Society Strategy published!
& more!
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European Prison Litigation Network
We campaign for prisoners’ right to access legal information, legal representation and legal aid, and strive to protect prisoners from reprisal for engaging in litigation. These rights are essential…
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December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
💥 Prison news
🔹 CoE SPACE II stats show a 2.3% rise in probationers (2023–24).
🔹 CoE CDPC approved the draft revised Recommendation Rec(89)12 on education in prison.
🔹 EU 2025 Ukraine report notes persistent torture in prisons
🔹 EU Civil Society Strategy published!
& more!
buff.ly/SayxmUu
🔹 CoE SPACE II stats show a 2.3% rise in probationers (2023–24).
🔹 CoE CDPC approved the draft revised Recommendation Rec(89)12 on education in prison.
🔹 EU 2025 Ukraine report notes persistent torture in prisons
🔹 EU Civil Society Strategy published!
& more!
buff.ly/SayxmUu
💥 Advocacy
🔹 UN HRCttee seeks input for its General Comment on Art. 22 ICCPR (by 19 Dec 2025).
🔹 UN CED & WGEID seek input for joint statement on enforced disappearances in transnational repression (by 31 Jan 2026).
🔹EU Commission seeks input for the 2026 EU Justice Scoreboard (by 11 Dec 2025).
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🔹 UN HRCttee seeks input for its General Comment on Art. 22 ICCPR (by 19 Dec 2025).
🔹 UN CED & WGEID seek input for joint statement on enforced disappearances in transnational repression (by 31 Jan 2026).
🔹EU Commission seeks input for the 2026 EU Justice Scoreboard (by 11 Dec 2025).
⤵️
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
💥 Advocacy
🔹 UN HRCttee seeks input for its General Comment on Art. 22 ICCPR (by 19 Dec 2025).
🔹 UN CED & WGEID seek input for joint statement on enforced disappearances in transnational repression (by 31 Jan 2026).
🔹EU Commission seeks input for the 2026 EU Justice Scoreboard (by 11 Dec 2025).
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🔹 UN HRCttee seeks input for its General Comment on Art. 22 ICCPR (by 19 Dec 2025).
🔹 UN CED & WGEID seek input for joint statement on enforced disappearances in transnational repression (by 31 Jan 2026).
🔹EU Commission seeks input for the 2026 EU Justice Scoreboard (by 11 Dec 2025).
⤵️
🇬🇧 Recall of a prisoner on licence while serving a determinate sentence: inadmissible.
⚖️ CJEU
State may refuse to execute EAW only with the issuing State’s consent, which may be withheld on criminal-policy grounds, even if reintegration considerations favour transfer.
& more!
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⚖️ CJEU
State may refuse to execute EAW only with the issuing State’s consent, which may be withheld on criminal-policy grounds, even if reintegration considerations favour transfer.
& more!
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November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🇬🇧 Recall of a prisoner on licence while serving a determinate sentence: inadmissible.
⚖️ CJEU
State may refuse to execute EAW only with the issuing State’s consent, which may be withheld on criminal-policy grounds, even if reintegration considerations favour transfer.
& more!
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⚖️ CJEU
State may refuse to execute EAW only with the issuing State’s consent, which may be withheld on criminal-policy grounds, even if reintegration considerations favour transfer.
& more!
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🔎 In this issue:
⚖️ ECtHR
🇦🇿 Searches before and after lawyer meetings & seizure of a letter the prisoner had entrusted to his lawyer for posting : violation of Art. 8.
🇷🇺 NGO ordered to remove publications on detention & torture in prison following a defamation action: violation of Art. 10.
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⚖️ ECtHR
🇦🇿 Searches before and after lawyer meetings & seizure of a letter the prisoner had entrusted to his lawyer for posting : violation of Art. 8.
🇷🇺 NGO ordered to remove publications on detention & torture in prison following a defamation action: violation of Art. 10.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🔎 In this issue:
⚖️ ECtHR
🇦🇿 Searches before and after lawyer meetings & seizure of a letter the prisoner had entrusted to his lawyer for posting : violation of Art. 8.
🇷🇺 NGO ordered to remove publications on detention & torture in prison following a defamation action: violation of Art. 10.
⤵️
⚖️ ECtHR
🇦🇿 Searches before and after lawyer meetings & seizure of a letter the prisoner had entrusted to his lawyer for posting : violation of Art. 8.
🇷🇺 NGO ordered to remove publications on detention & torture in prison following a defamation action: violation of Art. 10.
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🇲🇩 | Insufficient medical assistance (tooth, kidney): violation of Art 3; regular application of sanctions suspending family visits for over two years: violation of Art 8.
And more!
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(3/3)
And more!
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November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🇲🇩 | Insufficient medical assistance (tooth, kidney): violation of Art 3; regular application of sanctions suspending family visits for over two years: violation of Art 8.
And more!
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(3/3)
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(3/3)
🇦🇿 | Lawyer disbarred for speaking publicly about client’s ill-treatment : violation of Art 10 & 8, non-examination under Art 18 (joint dissenting opinion of Judges Ktistakis and Pavli).
🇺🇦 | Life-sentenced prisoner awarded only token compensation & ordered to pay fees: violation of Article 6.
(2/3)
🇺🇦 | Life-sentenced prisoner awarded only token compensation & ordered to pay fees: violation of Article 6.
(2/3)
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November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🇦🇿 | Lawyer disbarred for speaking publicly about client’s ill-treatment : violation of Art 10 & 8, non-examination under Art 18 (joint dissenting opinion of Judges Ktistakis and Pavli).
🇺🇦 | Life-sentenced prisoner awarded only token compensation & ordered to pay fees: violation of Article 6.
(2/3)
🇺🇦 | Life-sentenced prisoner awarded only token compensation & ordered to pay fees: violation of Article 6.
(2/3)
💥 Prison news
🔹 UN | HRC adopted a resolution on “the human rights implications of drug policy”.
🔹 CoE | Russia ceased to be a party to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Protocols.
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🔹 UN | HRC adopted a resolution on “the human rights implications of drug policy”.
🔹 CoE | Russia ceased to be a party to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Protocols.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
💥 Prison news
🔹 UN | HRC adopted a resolution on “the human rights implications of drug policy”.
🔹 CoE | Russia ceased to be a party to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Protocols.
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🔹 UN | HRC adopted a resolution on “the human rights implications of drug policy”.
🔹 CoE | Russia ceased to be a party to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Protocols.
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(3/3)
💥 Advocacy
🔸UN | Human Rights Committee seeking input for its General Comment on Article 22 ICCPR on Freedom of Association (submit by 19 December)
🔸 CoE | Department for the Execution of ECtHR Judgments to visit Montenegro/Hungary/Belgium.
(2/3)
🔸UN | Human Rights Committee seeking input for its General Comment on Article 22 ICCPR on Freedom of Association (submit by 19 December)
🔸 CoE | Department for the Execution of ECtHR Judgments to visit Montenegro/Hungary/Belgium.
(2/3)
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
💥 Advocacy
🔸UN | Human Rights Committee seeking input for its General Comment on Article 22 ICCPR on Freedom of Association (submit by 19 December)
🔸 CoE | Department for the Execution of ECtHR Judgments to visit Montenegro/Hungary/Belgium.
(2/3)
🔸UN | Human Rights Committee seeking input for its General Comment on Article 22 ICCPR on Freedom of Association (submit by 19 December)
🔸 CoE | Department for the Execution of ECtHR Judgments to visit Montenegro/Hungary/Belgium.
(2/3)
⚖ CJEU
🇷🇴/🇮🇹 | The executing State may refuse to execute an EAW & assume responsibility for the enforcement of the sentence only with the issuing State’s consent, which may be withheld for criminal policy considerations
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🇷🇴/🇮🇹 | The executing State may refuse to execute an EAW & assume responsibility for the enforcement of the sentence only with the issuing State’s consent, which may be withheld for criminal policy considerations
& more!
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October 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
⚖ CJEU
🇷🇴/🇮🇹 | The executing State may refuse to execute an EAW & assume responsibility for the enforcement of the sentence only with the issuing State’s consent, which may be withheld for criminal policy considerations
& more!
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🇷🇴/🇮🇹 | The executing State may refuse to execute an EAW & assume responsibility for the enforcement of the sentence only with the issuing State’s consent, which may be withheld for criminal policy considerations
& more!
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⚖ ECtHR
🇬🇧 | Recall of a prisoner released on licence while serving a fixed-term determinate sentence: inadmissible (incompatible ratione materiae).
🇸🇰 | Systematic practice of routine, thorough strip searches of a prisoner without convincing security reasons: violation of Article 3.
(2/3) ⤵️
🇬🇧 | Recall of a prisoner released on licence while serving a fixed-term determinate sentence: inadmissible (incompatible ratione materiae).
🇸🇰 | Systematic practice of routine, thorough strip searches of a prisoner without convincing security reasons: violation of Article 3.
(2/3) ⤵️
October 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
⚖ ECtHR
🇬🇧 | Recall of a prisoner released on licence while serving a fixed-term determinate sentence: inadmissible (incompatible ratione materiae).
🇸🇰 | Systematic practice of routine, thorough strip searches of a prisoner without convincing security reasons: violation of Article 3.
(2/3) ⤵️
🇬🇧 | Recall of a prisoner released on licence while serving a fixed-term determinate sentence: inadmissible (incompatible ratione materiae).
🇸🇰 | Systematic practice of routine, thorough strip searches of a prisoner without convincing security reasons: violation of Article 3.
(2/3) ⤵️
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September 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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🔍 Highlights from this edition:
📌 🇮🇹 harsher penalties incl. for 'prison riots'
📌 🇫🇷 launches new high-security prison regime, modelled on 🇮🇹 41bis
📌 🇦🇹 widens conditional release & electronic monitoring
📌 🇩🇪 courts confirm full power to review shackling prisoners
& more!
📌 🇮🇹 harsher penalties incl. for 'prison riots'
📌 🇫🇷 launches new high-security prison regime, modelled on 🇮🇹 41bis
📌 🇦🇹 widens conditional release & electronic monitoring
📌 🇩🇪 courts confirm full power to review shackling prisoners
& more!
September 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
🔍 Highlights from this edition:
📌 🇮🇹 harsher penalties incl. for 'prison riots'
📌 🇫🇷 launches new high-security prison regime, modelled on 🇮🇹 41bis
📌 🇦🇹 widens conditional release & electronic monitoring
📌 🇩🇪 courts confirm full power to review shackling prisoners
& more!
📌 🇮🇹 harsher penalties incl. for 'prison riots'
📌 🇫🇷 launches new high-security prison regime, modelled on 🇮🇹 41bis
📌 🇦🇹 widens conditional release & electronic monitoring
📌 🇩🇪 courts confirm full power to review shackling prisoners
& more!
🇹🇷 Prisoner with allergic asthma exposed to passive smoking for 1 year and 7 months: violation of Art 3.
🇦🇿 Seizure by prison staff of a letter addressed to a third person entrusted by the prisoner to his lawyer for posting: violation of Art 8.
& more!
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🇦🇿 Seizure by prison staff of a letter addressed to a third person entrusted by the prisoner to his lawyer for posting: violation of Art 8.
& more!
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September 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🇹🇷 Prisoner with allergic asthma exposed to passive smoking for 1 year and 7 months: violation of Art 3.
🇦🇿 Seizure by prison staff of a letter addressed to a third person entrusted by the prisoner to his lawyer for posting: violation of Art 8.
& more!
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🇦🇿 Seizure by prison staff of a letter addressed to a third person entrusted by the prisoner to his lawyer for posting: violation of Art 8.
& more!
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🇮🇹 Unjustified limitation of applicant’s right to correspondence during special regime detention: violation of Art 8.
🇷🇺 Prisoners’ rights organisation ordered to delete and refute online publications made on ill-treatment & torture in a correctional colony for women: violation of Art 10.
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🇷🇺 Prisoners’ rights organisation ordered to delete and refute online publications made on ill-treatment & torture in a correctional colony for women: violation of Art 10.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🇮🇹 Unjustified limitation of applicant’s right to correspondence during special regime detention: violation of Art 8.
🇷🇺 Prisoners’ rights organisation ordered to delete and refute online publications made on ill-treatment & torture in a correctional colony for women: violation of Art 10.
⤵️
🇷🇺 Prisoners’ rights organisation ordered to delete and refute online publications made on ill-treatment & torture in a correctional colony for women: violation of Art 10.
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We urge the CESCR to press Russia to:
📌 Transfer prison healthcare to the Ministry of Health;
📌 Abolish forced labour and allow unionisation;
📌 End the forced recruitment of prisoners for war.
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📌 Transfer prison healthcare to the Ministry of Health;
📌 Abolish forced labour and allow unionisation;
📌 End the forced recruitment of prisoners for war.
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(3/3)
September 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
We urge the CESCR to press Russia to:
📌 Transfer prison healthcare to the Ministry of Health;
📌 Abolish forced labour and allow unionisation;
📌 End the forced recruitment of prisoners for war.
🔗 Read more buff.ly/L6cf1lT
(3/3)
📌 Transfer prison healthcare to the Ministry of Health;
📌 Abolish forced labour and allow unionisation;
📌 End the forced recruitment of prisoners for war.
🔗 Read more buff.ly/L6cf1lT
(3/3)
⚒️ Forced labour: unsafe, degrading work for poverty wages; reprisals for refusal; no union rights.
⚔️ Military recruitment: "predatory recruitment” sends prisoners to Ukraine, exploiting vulnerability, exposing them to violence and rendering them complicit in war crimes.
⤵️ (2/3)
⚔️ Military recruitment: "predatory recruitment” sends prisoners to Ukraine, exploiting vulnerability, exposing them to violence and rendering them complicit in war crimes.
⤵️ (2/3)
September 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
⚒️ Forced labour: unsafe, degrading work for poverty wages; reprisals for refusal; no union rights.
⚔️ Military recruitment: "predatory recruitment” sends prisoners to Ukraine, exploiting vulnerability, exposing them to violence and rendering them complicit in war crimes.
⤵️ (2/3)
⚔️ Military recruitment: "predatory recruitment” sends prisoners to Ukraine, exploiting vulnerability, exposing them to violence and rendering them complicit in war crimes.
⤵️ (2/3)