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The Free Nazanin campaign and REDRESS, supported by victims of hostage-taking in Iran, have submitted a dossier to the new UK Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, asking her to impose Magnitsky sanctions on ten Iranian officials involved in Iran’s hostage-taking.  Human rights (Magnitsky) sanctions, which were first introduced… Read More

This week, after a long delay caused by the COVID pandemic, the Military Commission hearings in Guantánamo in relation to the 9/11 attacks have resumed.  It is now over 18 years since Mustafa al-Hawsawi, one of the accused, was first detained by US forces in March 2003, and… Read More

Research by NGO coalition shows that underreporting and political disregard are undermining victims’ fight for justice A new report researched by REDRESS and supported by the findings from partner organisations, launched today, The Forgotten Victims: Enforced Disappearance in Africa, highlights the prevalence of the practice on the continent and… Read More

متوفر باللغة العربية The Sudanese transitional government must show its commitment to breaking with a decades-long legacy of impunity for grave human rights violations and international crimes by swiftly facilitating the handover of Omar al-Bashir, Ahmed Haroun, and Abdel Raheem Muhammed Hussein to the International Criminal Court… Read More

Press Release (12 August 2021) REDRESS welcomes today’s historic news that Sudan’s transitional government has officially joined the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances (ICPPED) by… Read More

Press Release Following the latest breakdown of diplomatic negotiations with Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s legal team has asked the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to intervene urgently and engage both the UK and Iran on securing her release. The request comes in anticipation of Nazanin’s appeal for… Read More

New sanctions to tackle corruption abroad are welcome, but the UK urgently needs to get serious about a more holistic approach to tackling UK money laundering of ill gotten gains if the regime is to have credibility The UK UK Anti-Corruption Coalition said: “We want the UK’s anti-corruption sanctions regime… Read More

This week REDRESS made a submission for the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Republic of Lithuania.  The contribution focuses on the lack of effective investigation into Lithuania’s complicity in, and facilitation of, the CIA’s Rendition, Detention and Interrogation (RDI) Program.  Detailed analysis of publicly available evidence on the… Read More