by Alessandro Amicarelli — Lawyers who handle cases with a foreign dimension know a recurring problem. A dossier arrives from another country, carries the authority of an official or media source, and is seldom tested with the rigor applied to domestic evidence. The written statement submitted by CAP Liberté de Conscience (CAP-LC) at the 2026 Warsaw Human Dimension Conference, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), describes this problem through the case of Konstantin Rudnev. It deserves as much attention from practitioners as from diplomats.

by Alessandro Amicarelli — Pretrial detention, an unfinished competition for a permanent post, and three unrelated defendants converge in the office of a single federal coordinator in Patagonia. Facundo Jones Huala signed an agreement on September 16 and received a sentence of five years and two months. The Rio Negro press reported the deal as an admission of guilt to membership in the Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche. His lawyers describe the agreement differently.

by Alessandro Amicarelli — Preventive detention occupies a precise place in international law. It is conceived as an exceptional measure, justified only when strictly necessary, and surrounded by safeguards that protect the presumption of innocence. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights affirms that deprivation of liberty before trial must be used sparingly and only when alternatives are not available. The United Nations Human Rights Committee has repeatedly insisted that courts must examine whether less intrusive measures can achieve the same protective purpose.

James T. Richardson — The introduction to this special issue of The Journal of CESNUR situates the decade‑long transnational persecution of Konstantin Rudnev and his school, generally referred to as “Ashram Shambhala,” within broader patterns of state, media, and anti‑cult mobilization against new religious movements.