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REDRESS welcomes the findings of a report released today by the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, which calls on the Government to investigate allegations that consular staff failed to protect British nationals who may have been tortured or mistreated while in detention abroad. Several British nationals and rights groups working with… Read More

The United States has compounded far-reaching violations of international law by constructing an unprecedented system of secrecy around certain detainees, including the six who face capital charges in military trials at  according to a report submitted by REDRESS, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the World Organisation Against Torture… Read More

Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), JUSTICE and REDRESS have welcomed the powerful judgment issued by the Court of Appeal this morning in the case of Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Other v. Jack Straw & Others. The Court affirms the right of Mr Belhaj – an opposition commander during… Read More

REDRESS, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), the international Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Track Impunity Always (TRIAL) will launch tomorrow, 29 October 2014, a new report, Driving Forward Justice: Victims of Serious International Crimes in the EU, in the margins of the 17th EU Genocide… Read More

President Salva Kiir should veto a bill giving South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) sweeping powers, a group of national and international human rights organizations said today. The bill would allow the security service virtually unfettered authority to arrest and detain suspects, monitor communications, conduct searches, and seize property. The… Read More

REDRESS strongly condemns the detention in Bahrain on Saturday 30 August 2014 of prominent Bahraini human rights defender Maryam AlKhawaja. We call on the Bahraini authorities to release her immediately, as well as to release 13 other leading human rights defenders, including her father Abdulhadi AlKhawaja, who are in jail… Read More

For three days from today, the Court of Appeal will hear the case of Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Other v. Jack Straw & Others. It involves a damages claim by a Libyan couple against former and current UK officials for their alleged complicity in the claimants’ torture and illegal transfer to… Read More

Today marks the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this day, Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL), the REDRESS Trust (REDRESS) and the Danish Institute Against Torture (DIGNITY) wish to express their condemnation and concern over the continuing acts of torture and other ill-treatment in… Read More