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REDRESS has urged the UK government to publicly recognise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a victim of torture, as new medical evidence of her physical and psychological state confirms the severity of the ill-treatment that she has suffered in Iran.  REDRESS has sent to the UK Foreign Secretary, Dominic… Read More

On this International Women’s Day, a great number of survivors of sexual violence, including many women and girls, are still being denied justice. Access to justice for survivors of sexual violence in conflict (CRSV) is particularly difficult: CRSV is stigmatising for survivors, their families and communities, … Read More

British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will not be reunited with her husband and daughter in the UK, despite completing her five-year sentence today in Iran. Nazanin has been told to appear before court on Sunday 14 March 2021. This may relate to a second case against Nazanin, which could be… Read More

1 March 2021 marked 18 years of Mustafa al-Hawsawi’s detention at the hands of US forces, since he was detained by Pakistani agents and transferred into the custody of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in March 2003. Mustafa was tortured and detained in secret CIA black sites as part of… Read More

REDRESS has sent a briefing to United Nations human rights experts highlighting the risk that a second case may be used by Iran to block the release of British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at the end of her sentence on 7th March 2021. … Read More

Read the Policy Briefing    متوفر باللغة العربية The Juba Peace Agreement and the 2019 Constitutional Document commit Sudan’s transitional government to making a series of critical human rights reforms. A set of legislative amendments in November 2019 and July 2020 addressed… Read More

متوفر باللغة العربية REDRESS and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) welcome today’s historic news that Sudan’s Sovereign Council has approved the ratification of the two main international treaties banning torture and enforced disappearances. This development follows years of advocacy efforts by Sudanese… Read More

Today, the High Court of Kenya heard the final oral arguments in the case of a small businesswoman and mother of three from the United Arab Emirates. She claims that after apparently being mistaken to be an Al-Qaeda operative, she was forcibly disappeared and then rendered to Somalia and Ethiopia… Read More