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The full scale of how the USA engaged in torture and brutally violated other fundamental human rights of detainees after the 9/11 attacks was laid bare yesterday. Now it is time for the UK Government to come clean about its own involvement in the CIA’s rendition and secret detention programme,… Read More

قراءة باللغة العربية REDRESS, and many other individuals and organisations around the world, are extremely concerned by the continuing secret detention of Dr. Amin Mekki Medani. On Saturday, 4 December 2014, Dr. Medani and Mr. Farouq Abuessa – who is also still being detained – were… Read More

Today, the ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda withdrew the charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta, who had been charged with crimes against humanity in connection with the 2007/2008 post-election violence in Kenya, which left over 1,100 people dead and several hundred thousands of other victims. The Prosecutor announced her decision two days… Read More

 Luis Alberto Rojas was tortured and sexually assaulted in 2008 by police officers from the Ascope district in Trujillo. The Peruvian investigation into the allegation was closed.  Promsex, the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos and REDRESS, the rights organizations who are supporting the case, welcome this important step… Read More

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