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Download the Report متوفر باللغة العربية 11 April 2021 marks two years since Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was removed from office after months of peaceful protests. Since 2019, a transitional government has taken several important steps with respect to human rights and accountability efforts. Read More

Libya violated the rights of Libyan human rights defender Magdulein Abaida by failing to investigate her arbitrary arrest and torture, the UN body of experts that monitors implementation of the main global treaty on women’s rights has found. The decision, issued today, is emblematic in two ways: it is the… Read More

Five years to the day since the arrest of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Iran continues to hold her hostage and refuses to allow her to reunite with her husband and daughter in the UK.  Despite having officially completed her sentence on the 7th March… Read More

As serious and unprecedented human rights violations are continuing in a culture of impunity in Belarus, there is an urgent need to ensure that evidence and documentation are collected and preserved in a secure and appropriate manner in accordance with international standards. In a joint declaration 19 states expressed their… Read More

REDRESS welcomed today the announcement by the UK government that it has designated for sanctions four senior Chinese officials and one entity for their roles in serious human rights abuses in Xinjiang, China. The Chinese individuals and entity were sanctioned under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA) and… Read More

As the European Union is expected to announce today sanctions against senior Chinese officials and entities linked to human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, REDRESS has written to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, calling for urgent action from the UK government in imposing similar… Read More

REDRESS and a pro-bono team of the law firm Hogan Lovells have responded to a call for evidence of the UK government-established Independent Human Rights Act Review. The overarching aim of the submission is to share an understanding of how the Human Rights Act 1998 has, though its… Read More

Download the Q&A     متوفر باللغة العربية This Q&A was prepared by Rifaat Makkawi, director of the People’s Legal Aid Centre (PLACE) in Khartoum, Sudan, and REDRESS. On 11 March 2021, in accordance with a pardon by Sudan’s Sovereign Council, Musa Hilal, who is… Read More