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REDRESS / SIHA JOINT PRESS RELEASE The report, ‘Criminalisation of Women in Sudan: A Need for Fundamental Reform’, shows how public order laws, designed to protect morality, continue to disproportionately target women, who can face long spells in jail and flogging for infractions such as wearing ‘trousers’. The Strategic… Read More

Today, 7,000 victims of the Hissein Habré regime filed a human rights complaint against the Government of Chad before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Africa’s premier human rights institution. Read More

The UK must place British mother and charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under the diplomatic protection of the United Kingdom, following the continued fallout from the Foreign Secretary’s erroneous comments, says REDRESS, upon the release today of a legal opinion on diplomatic protection, prepared by Professor John Dugard SC (associate tenant,… Read More

“We welcome the correction issued by the Foreign Secretary today and his clarification that Nazanin was purely on holiday in Iran when she was arrested. There is no basis to justify her arrest or continued imprisonment and the extreme pain and suffering she has been subjected to either under Iranian or international law,… Read More

REDRESS is delighted to announce that Rupert Skilbeck, Litigation Director at Open Society Justice Initiative, is to become its new director, effective 1 February 2018. Rupert will succeed Dr Carla Ferstman, who has been with REDRESS for the past 17 years and has been its Director since 2004. Rupert comes… Read More

REDRESS is today releasing a legal opinion drafted by senior counsel, that finds that imprisoned British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has been arbitrarily deprived of her liberty and has been subjected to grave violations of her human rights by Iran.The UK Government, who has received the legal opinion, has yet… Read More

REDRESS is appalled that Iranian authorities have re-opened the case against British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with three additional charges. She faces an additional 16 years in prison. Nazanin was brought before court yesterday and informed of new charges brought forward by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The charges are linked… Read More

Letter to Nicholas Hopton comes ahead of major Europe-Iran business meeting in Zurich. Mr Hopton urged to call for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Kamal Foroughi’s release. Amnesty International and REDRESS have written to the UK’s Ambassador to Iran, Nicholas Hopton, urging him to press for the release of two Britons jailed… Read More