The Open Society Justice Initiative is urging the Mexican government to respond positively to a highly critical international assessment of its response to a continuing epidemic of enforced disappearances.

The European Court of Human Rights has taken up a complaint filed by the family of Sergei Magnitsky, the whistle-blowing Russian lawyer who died in 2009 while in pre-trial detention.

The ruling in Etxebarria Caballero v. Spain emphasizes the obligations states have to protect suspects in police stations from torture and ill-treatment.

A new report says reforms at Guatemala’s Public Ministry have resulted in “a significant improvement in criminal prosecutions."

H.R., a survivor of a 2005 massacre in Andijan, Uzbekistan, that left hundreds dead, has submitted a complaint before the UN Human Rights Committee against the government for subjecting him to torture and illegal detention in 2004 and failing to properly investigate the violence that took place in 2005.

A Spanish legal resident has filed a complaint before Spain’s Ministry of Interior alleging he was racially profiled by Spain’s National Police.

Guatemala’s constutional court has moved to cut short the four year term of the country’s reforming attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz.

The Open Society Justice Initiative has welcomed a call from European parliamentarians for the Russia to fully investigate the death in custody of whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky.