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Seen in the press

Read our selection of press reports about this country.

News

November 14, 2023

Croatia: the country ordered to compensate ex-prisoner for poor jail conditions

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Croatia must pay 15,000 euros in compensation to Zoran Vukusic because he was kept in inhumane conditions in secure prison cells.

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October 10, 2018

Croatie: end confinement of people with disabilities

Croatia’s government should end the confinement of children and adults in institutions, five disabled people’s and human rights organizations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. Despite some initial progress, the process of moving people out of institutions and into community…

News

August 29, 2017

Croatia: see the haunting ruins of a prison once known as a "living hell"

The decrepit remains can still be seen by tourists willing to make the trek to the uninhabited island. Goli Otok was once described as a “Living Hell” by those who were unlucky enough to be sent to the prison.

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April 7, 2016

Inside Croatia’s only prison for women : the anatomy of absence

Marina Paulenka’s The Other Home is an ode to Požega Penitentiary; Croatia’s only women’s prison. The Zagreb-based photographer discusses a project that seeks to question “the notions of freedom inside and outside supervisory institution’s architecture.”