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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

In light of the elections on 14 October 2025 of Member States to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2026-2028 term, we urge that India’s membership be evaluated in light of the standard established by General Assembly Resolution 60/251. That resolution makes clear that Council members must… Read More

Read it in English El Estado chileno reafirma su compromiso de adoptar, para casos futuros, directrices claras y transparentes para los procesos de extradición relativos a crímenes internacionales Hoy, el Estado chileno ofreció una disculpa pública a la familia del fallecido Leopoldo García Lucero, sobreviviente de tortura… Read More

Léalo en español Chilean State reaffirms its commitment to adopt, for future cases, clear and transparent guidelines for extradition proceedings related to international crimes Today, the Chilean government offered a public apology to the family of the late Leopoldo García Lucero, a survivor of torture under the… Read More

ENGLISH Le Consortium United Against Torture exprime sa plus vive préoccupation et condamne avec la plus grande fermeté la brutalité de la répression exercée par les forces de sécurité malgaches à l’encontre de manifestants pacifiques. Depuis le 25 septembre 2025, la capitale, Antananarivo, est le théâtre de protestations citoyennes menées… Read More