This joint statement makes comprehensive recommendations for amendments to the European Union Council’s revised text of the Measure C1 to ensure that the Directive upholds the minimum human rights standards for fair trials.
This joint statement makes comprehensive recommendations for amendments to the European Union Council’s revised text of the Measure C1 to ensure that the Directive upholds the minimum human rights standards for fair trials.
On 27 April 2012 a new law was adopted in the European Union on a right to information in criminal proceedings. This directive ensures that police and prosecutors in the 27 member states provide to everyone who is suspected and detained a written information upon arrest about their rights – in a Letter of Rights – drafted in a simple, everyday language and irrespective whether they ask for it or not. A Letter of Rights will contain practical details of such rights as the right to remain silent, right to a lawyer, right to information about charges and other procedural rights and safeguards.
Statewatch launches online historical archive of EU Justice and Home Affairs documents.
Within the programme "Criminal Justice" for the period 2007-2013, the DG Justice of the European Commission has opened the call regarding Action Grants for 2012.
The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) welcomes the opportunity to submit comments to the European Parliament as part of a process which, it is hoped, will contribute in strengthening the EU’s position on human rights globally, through an ambitious and robust human rights policy.
The Association for the Prevention of Torture welcomes the opportunity to submit comments to the European Parliament as part of a process which, it is hoped, will contribute in strengthening the EU’s position on human rights globally.
With Turkey at the center of criticism regarding pretrial detention in recent months, a report by an international agency has revealed that some EU countries have a poor record of pretrial detention and in many countries the percentage of the those imprisoned pending trial is very high.
Anyone suspected or accused of having committed a crime in the EU must be promptly informed of his or her procedural rights in easy-to-understand language, says a new EU law adopted by Parliament.
Fair Trials International and EuroMoS announced the launch of a joint pan-European research project: “Advancing EU Defence Rights”.