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Landmark European Court Decision Sends Clear Message on Ending Impunity for European Complicity in CIA Torture

September 10, 2014

This guest post was written by Amrit Singh. Amrit Singh is Senior Legal Officer for National Security and Counterterrorism at the Open Society Justice Initiative and acted as counsel in al Nashiri v. Poland. In the woods, about 160 kilometres north of Warsaw, in a village called Stare Kiejkuty, sits a Polish intelligence base that […]

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The multifaceted and crucial role played by NGOs at the European Court of Human Rights

August 04, 2014

This guest post was written by Laura Van den Eynde, Doctoral Researcher at UniversitĂ© libre de Bruxelles. (*) On 17 and 24 July 2014, the European Court of Human Rights decided three cases, one against Romania concerning the death of a mentally disabled and HIV-positive young Roma and two other cases against Poland concerning the […]