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The below-signed organisations welcome today’s call by the UN Committee Against Torture for an independent judge-led inquiry into UK complicity in torture and rendition post 9/11. The Government must finally take the necessary actions to get to the bottom of this shameful period in UK history, having for so long… Read More

We are relaunching our free e-learning course exploring what torture means in the international human rights framework, and how this is relevant to the asylum/immigration system in the UK. We have transformed the course into new short modules to make it easier for people to fit this important training… Read More

Eighty civil society groups and experts reveal failure of the UK to meet anti-torture obligations Evidence submitted to UN today, in first review for five years, shows UK has failed to resolve issues and serious new concerns have emerged Today and tomorrow in Geneva, the UK will face scrutiny for… Read More

La FIDH, la LDH, Human Rights Watch, REDRESS et Amnesty International France, organisations de défense des droits humains engagées de longue date dans le soutien à la capacité de la justice française à contribuer à la lutte contre l’impunité des crimes les plus graves commis à travers le monde, appellent… Read More

REDRESS and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) have issued the following briefing paper to coincide with the ongoing session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which is taking place from the 24th of April to the 14th of May in Egypt. The… Read More

The ICC has found in an important decision in the Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi case that amnesties and pardons for serious acts constituting crimes against humanity are incompatible with international law, and that they deny the rights of victims. This decision was issued in the context… Read More

REDRESS and Fair Trials have filed a third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Oleg Sentsov v Russia. Sentsov alleged he was tortured and then convicted on the basis of evidence obtained from a witness who had also been ill-treated. Oleg Sentsov is a… Read More

On the three-year anniversary of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s arrest in Iran, REDRESS calls once more on the Government of Iran to bring an end to her unlawful detention, before her health deteriorates further. Nazanin was returning from a holiday visiting her family in Iran with her then one-year-old daughter, Gabriella, on… Read More