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REDRESS and five other organisations have lodged today a complaint against Sudan with Africa’s main human rights body, urging it to request Sudan to immediately release from prison Meriam Ibrahim and her two children, and to suspend a sentence of death and corporal punishment of 100 lashes for apostasy and adultery, which a Sudanese court imposed in May. Read More

Please find below a statement from Carla Ferstman, Director of REDRESS, on the ICC Prosecutor’s decision to re-open the preliminary examination of the situation in Iraq. “Until justice is done and seen to be done in all outstanding detainee abuse cases, the ICC most certainly has grounds to pursue allegations… Read More

In an important decision, Africa’s regional human rights treaty body – the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights – held that Sudan is responsible for the arbitrary arrest, detention, torture and ill-treatment of 88 internally displaced persons (IDPs). The 88 complainants are Sudanese nationals who had escaped conflict in… Read More

A court in Lithuania has today released a ruling urging prosecutors to investigate claims that a Guantánamo detainee was held in CIA secret detention in the country. The decision comes after prosecutors refused to open an investigation into a complaint lodged in September last year by human rights organisations Human… Read More

After more than ten years of litigation, the European Court of Human Rights has today told three British men that they cannot sue Saudi Arabia or its officials for torture they claim they were subjected to in its prisons. A fourth victim died before the case was decided. In 2000… Read More

REDRESS today condemns the decision to hand the stalled official inquiry into rendition and torture to the Intelligence and Security Committee. “Today’s decision is an affront to justice and accountability for allegations which are as shocking today as they were when they first emerged” said Carla Ferstman, Director of REDRESS. Read More

REDRESS welcomes the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s release of a report that upholds the complaint of a rape victim and calls for changes in the way consular officers deal with cases of violence against British citizens overseas. The victim – Ms M, a British aid worker – was raped by a military… Read More

The UK Government should make securing an invitation for the Special Rapporteur on Torture to visit Bahrain a priority in its discussions with that state, the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) said in a report released today after a year-long inquiry into the UK’s relations with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Read More