In the aftermath of the protests that occured in Serbia this week, many demonstrators, journalists and organisations denounced the “most violent police repression since Milosevic era”. In this regard, the…
Article originally published on Defender A Quien Defiende, 19 March 2020 - accessible here At Defender a Quien Defiende, we alert on how the securitarian vision of political, social or…
Since late 2018, in France repeated demonstrations brought to the streets tens of thousands people, some reaching peaks of over a million people protesting across the country. They were part…
(Network for Police Monitoring - Netpol) Following reports from solicitors and individual campaigners in several parts of the country saying that the police have been asking schools for lists of…
(Network for Police Monitoring - Netpol) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This independent report by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) is based on testimony gathered between 28 October and 3 November 2019…
🔸El real decreto-ley 14/2019 permite que el Gobierno cierre páginas web para prevenir desórdenes públicos. 🔸Los desórdenes públicos son uno de los tipos penales que más habitualmente se imputa a…
UPDATE - 11 November 2019: The International Trial Watch, a platform bringing together lawyers from several countries to observe the Catalan Trial, published the assessment of the sentence: https://internationaltrialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/POSICIONAMIENTO_SENTENCIA_12112019-ingles-carta.pdf. The…
(New Statesman) Emmanuel Macron’s liberal image is at odds with his record on climate change and civil liberties. As French president Emmanuel Macron welcomed international leaders, including Boris Johnson and Donald…
(featured photo: rally in Italy in favour of sea rescue by Repstatic.it) (ECNL) On 5 August 2019, the Italian Parliament passed that a law that increases punishment for offences and…
A new Security Decree is currently under discussion, targeting search and rescue NGOs as well as other forms of dissent.(Translated with DeepL from Italian - Contropiano) Reiterating the scheme of…