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Four UN Special Rapporteurs have written to the UK government to warn that five UK laws risk undermining the UK’s duty to investigate and prosecute torture and other serious human rights violations, and may cause it to breach its obligations under the UN Convention against Torture. … Read More

On 4 November 2025, during Malawi’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), numerous UN Member States urged Malawi to decriminalise consensual same-sex relations and take concrete steps to prevent, investigate, and prosecute acts of torture, ill-treatment, and discrimination against LGBTIQ+ persons. The UPR is… Read More

Today marks eight years since Jagtar Singh Johal, a British citizen from Dumbarton, Scotland, was violently arrested by authorities in Jalandhar, northern India. Plainclothes officials hooded him on a crowded street and forced him into an unmarked police car — without a warrant. He has been separated from his… Read More

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) has recently made public three decisions finding Sudan responsible for grave violations. The long-awaited decisions, which relate to events between 2011 and 2014, identify key structural drivers of torture and other serious human rights violations in Sudan and call… Read More

The United Against Torture Consortium condemns the ongoing judicial harassment, intimidation, and smear campaigns targeting human rights defenders and journalists in Georgia, including those monitoring police brutality and extracustodial torture and providing vital assistance to survivors of torture and other ill-treatment. Between November 2024 and February 2025, a nationwide wave of… Read More

In a ground-breaking ruling, senior UK judges have for the first time clarified what it means for UK intelligence services to be “complicit” in torture or other ill-treatment by foreign States during intelligence operations. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the UK’s tribunal overseeing complaints about intelligence agencies, has set… Read More

By Alejandra Vicente, Head of Law As we marked the third anniversary of the Law on Democratic Memory, adopted by Spain on 19 October 2022, we are deeply concerned about the lack of effective investigations, prosecutions and sanction for cases of torture and other grave violations that took place… Read More

The United Against Torture Consortium (UATC), a coalition of six leading anti-torture organisations working with over 200 civil society organisations across the world, convened a regional partners’ meeting in Banjul, The Gambia, from 15–16 October 2025.  Funded by the European Union since 2023, the UATC supports… Read More