Justice
Greek courts abuse pre-trial detention
With large prisoner numbers and detention times far in excess of European averages, pre-trial detention is being abused by the Greek justice system.
Pre-trial detention: you never get over a dead son
Danijoy Pontes, 23 years old, was sent to pre-trial detention in 2020, for a total of 11 months. He died in a Lisbon prison: Divergente dug his story as part of EDJNet's investigation on the abuse and risks of pre-trial detention in Europe.
Presumed innocent but detained for months pretrial in Germany and EU
One in five people jailed in the European Union hasn't been convicted of a crime — including 12,000 in Germany alone. Studies suggest that pretrial detention is unnecessary in most cases.
