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>> Read our op-ed in the Huffington Post >> Donate to our Crowdfunding Campaign ‘Help Bring Nazanin Home’ Since a secret and unfair trial under unspecified charges in 2016, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been kept in a notorious prison in Iran under inhumane conditions. Today, Nazanin will spend… Read More
Today the UK government published legislation which would create a presumption against prosecution for any acts of torture undertaken by UK personnel which took place more than five years ago. Amnesty International UK, Freedom From Torture, Liberty, REDRESS, the Rendition Project, Reprieve, and Rights Watch UK, issued the following joint… Read More
Today, four international human rights organisations – the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), REDRESS and Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice – submitted observations to a panel of judges at the International Criminal Court on the Court’s competence to investigate war crimes and crimes against… Read More
متوفر باللغة العربية Today, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed the previous decision of Pre-Trial Chamber I which found that the case against Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi is admissible before the Court. Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) and REDRESS welcome the judgment on the admissibility… Read More
In the light of reports of a possible outbreak of coronavirus in Evin Prison, and fears that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may have contracted the virus, REDRESS reiterates Iran’s legal obligations to provide Nazanin and all other detainees with appropriate and timely medical treatment. Iranian law states that medical treatment is… Read More
Today marks the 17th anniversary of Mustafa Al-Hawsawi’s detention in Pakistan and handover to US forces, which subjected him to torture and held him in secret detention as part of a CIA programme which operated several ‘black sites’ in Europe. Detailed analysis of publicly available evidence on the CIA programme… Read More
REDRESS and four other human rights organisations have submitted their arguments on behalf of Mariam Yahia Ibraheem and her family in a complaint against Sudan pending before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Mariam, a devout Christian, was sentenced to death for apostasy and corporal punishment of 100… Read More
Today’s announcement by Sudan’s transitional authorities that they will hand over officials wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a major step towards confronting the longstanding impunity for human rights abuses under former president Omar al-Bashir. It also brings victims in Darfur closer to receiving justice for… Read More
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