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CPT Armenia report: Inter-prisoner violence, informal prisoner hierarchy, luxurious conditions for some inmates
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) in its new report on its periodic visit to Armenia in December 2019, welcomed some positive developments in the penitentiary system (progress in addressing overcrowding, easier transfers of inmates to outside hospitals,...
Belarus: further pressure on human rights
Statement by Spokesperson for Secretary General
PACE rapporteur calls for immediate release of Belarussian journalist
Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), General Rapporteur on media freedom and the safety of journalists for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has today expressed his grave concern at the arrest and detention by the Belarusian authorities of Raman Pratasevich, co-founder of...