The report presents the case studies of 11 individuals whose rights were infringed due to excessive and unjustified pre-trial
detention. The report analyses the pre-trial detention regimes of 15 EU Member States: the Czech Republic, France, England and Wales, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. Key statistical data on rates of pre-trial detention in these and other EU countries are presented in Appendix 1.
The report was submitted to the European Commission in response to its Green Paper on detention issued in 2010
