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Today, the ICC Appeals Chamber upheld Thomas Lubanga’s conviction and 14-year jail sentence. Four out of five judges found no reason to interfere with the Trial Chamber’s historic decision of 14 March 2012, which convicted Lubanga of the war crime of enlisting and conscripting children under 15 into his armed… Read More

Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AFN), the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), REDRESS and the World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) made a stakeholder submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Nepal taking place on 4 November 2015. The submission details the continued impunity for serious human rights violations committed during the armed conflict… Read More

One of the main UN bodies that monitor States’ compliance with their human rights obligations has found the Uzbek Government responsible for the torture and ill-treatment of Mutabar Tadjibayeva, a well-known human rights defender. Ms Tadjibayevawas incarcerated for her human rights activities in 2005-2008 and has been living in exile… Read More

Today, a district court in Szczytno, Poland, rejected an appeal by REDRESS which had sought to overturn a decision by the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office in Kraków not to open an investigation into the alleged human rights violations committed against a victim of CIA rendition in Poland. REDRESS had argued that… Read More

Electric shocks, beatings on the soles of the feet, stress positions during incommunicado detention: those who allow this type of torture can and must be held criminally liable – even abroad. Bahrain-born British citizen Jaafar Al-Hasabi has submitted a criminal complaint to the prosecuting authorities in Berne (Switzerland) against Bahraini… Read More

Today, the High Court of Kenya is due to hear for the first time the case of a businesswoman and mother of three from the United Arab Emirates who, after apparently being mistaken to be an Al-Qaeda operative, was kidnapped and then rendered to Somalia and Ethiopia by Kenyan counter-terrorism… Read More

Last week, the anti-torture organisation REDRESS, through attorney Ingrida Botyrienne, filed a request with the Lithuanian Prosecutor to grant Mustafa Al-Hawsawi victim status so that he can participate in the ongoing investigation regarding the CIA rendition, detention and interrogation programme in Lithuania. This request was filed on 26 August. Read More

(Kathmandu, Lima, London, Nairobi) – In 1987, the nations of the world took a major step towards the universal prohibition of torture. The UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Convention) came into force, establishing a set of concrete steps States must take… Read More