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পড়ুন বাংলাদেশি ভাষায় In the run-up to next January’s general elections, human rights violations are increasing in Bangladesh.  Allegations of torture and ill-treatment by the security forces are multiplying, so are cases of judicial harassment of political opponents and human rights defenders, as well as attacks on minority groups. Read More

Read it in English আগামী জানুয়ারির সাধারণ নির্বাচনের তোড়জোড়ে বাংলাদেশে মানবাধিকার লঙ্ঘনের ঘটনা  বেড়েই চলেছে। পুলিশ কর্তৃক নির্যাতন ও দুর্ব্যবহারের অভিযোগ বহুগুণ বেড়ে চলেছে এবং তার সাথে বাড়ছে রাজনৈতিক প্রতিপক্ষ এবং মানবাধিকার রক্ষাকারীদের বিচারিক হয়রানির পাশাপাশি সংখ্যালঘু গোষ্ঠীর উপর হামলার ঘটনাও। এই উদ্বেগজনক প্রেক্ষাপটের মধ্যে, ইউনাইটেড এগেইনস্ট… Read More

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)’s “unnecessarily defensive culture” prevents the department from learning from past mistakes in addressing the mistreatment of British nationals detained abroad, concludes the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) in a critical follow-up report published today.  The follow-up report comes… Read More

Read the report A new report from REDRESS and the Clooney Foundation for Justice, “Global Britain, Global Justice”, examines how the UK has faltered in its historical commitment to international justice due to a myriad of legal, practical and political challenges that have… Read More

The European Court of Human Rights issued a long-awaited judgment, unanimously finding that Turkey failed to investigate the torture suffered by REDRESS client A.B. in May 2003, and awarding him 10,000 Euros in compensation.  The Turkish Constitutional Court having already decided that the State’s investigation –… Read More

READ THE BRIEFING A new briefing paper by a coalition of international and Belarusian NGOs highlights the myriad of challenges that prevent survivors of torture and other human rights violations from pursuing justice inside and outside Belarus. On 8 February 2023, Belarus withdrew from the individual complaints’… Read More

The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a landmark resolution establishing an independent international fact-finding mission  for Sudan. This follows a call from 120 Sudanese and international CSOs, including REDRESS, that an independent mechanism was urgently needed to undertake a… Read More

REDRESS welcomes the Labour Party’s commitment to introduce a legal right to consular assistance to British nationals detained abroad, and establish a new special envoy to oversee cases of arbitrary detention and hostage-taking, as announced today by the Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy.   The… Read More