Access to healthcare and social distance during COVID pandemic cannot stop at the prison gate
The article of Maïté De Rue, policy officer of the Open Society Justice Initiative and former 1st-Vice president of theEuropean Committee for the prevention of torture, on “Access to healthcare and social distance during COVID pandemic cannot stop at the prison gate”
Access to healthcare and social distance during COVID pandemic cannot stop at the prison gate

On 18 June 2026, the European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in its judgment

Closing the Accountability Gap: The Need to Criminalize Torture-Like Violence

Any form of violence or ill-treatment in the armed forces