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Case Studies

When someone’s right to a fair trial are breached, there can be devastating consequences for them and their family. Our case studies show the human impact of decisions that lead to people being held in pre-trial detention, coerced into accepting a plea bargain or extradited to another country. Many of these people are also victims of the discrimination and bias that in entrenched in criminal legal systems.

No Fair Trial, No Justice: How I spent five years in prison

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24 March 2025

“Call them crazy”: Criminalisation of activists undermines rule of law in the EU

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28 March 2023

Vincenzo Vecchi: The criminalisation of protest

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05 October 2022
Person in handcuffs

Arrested abroad - Stefan's story

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11 March 2022

Fiqiri's story: Forced to give up the right to a fair trial

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22 October 2021
Image shows the back of a woman's t-shirt at a protest in Bogota. The shirt reads 'Respeto - no a la homofobia, bifobia y transfobia

Natalia and Macarena: Trans lives in danger

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30 June 2020
a group of masked people at a protest in Bogota, one man holds up a sign that reads 'Bogota admira la fortaleza de la comunidad LGBTIQ

Coqueta: “Are you a man, are you a woman, what are you?”

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30 June 2020
two people at a protest are holding Colombian flags

Alejandra: Police abuse during Pico y Género

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30 June 2020
image shows police in riot gear with shields reading 'policia'

Carolina: Fighting for her right to work

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30 June 2020

What Works? How English & Welsh law and practice impacts on low rates of pre-trial detention.

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30 April 2020
an image of cell doors in a prison in the Netherlands

The Netherlands: Inter-detainee violence

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29 December 2019

Sweden: Violence in pre-trial detention

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23 December 2019

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