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The Coalition of International NGOs Against Torture (CINAT)* is deeply concerned by the recent reports of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment inflicted on Iraqi detainees by US and UK military forces serving under the Coalition Provisional Authority. CINAT draws attention to the fact that torture and other… Read More

The recent allegations of torture in Iraq at the hands of American and British soldiers, and the widely publicised photographs relating to these allegations, have once again drawn attention to the scourge of torture. These allegations give rise to extremely grave concern. REDRESS wishes to add its voice to all… Read More

The recent Kallon-Kamara decision of the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone asserted the Court’s jurisdiction despite the blanket amnesty contained in the Lome Accord extended to all combatants involved in the conflict. According to the Court’s ruling of 13 March 2004, the amnesties afforded… Read More

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has taken an important step toward opening its first investigation, the Coalition for an International Criminal Court (Coalition) said today. Following the referral by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni of the situation concerning the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo announced that there… Read More

The United Nations Human Rights Committee considered the Petition of Albert Wilson (represented by REDRESS), a British national who was sentenced to death by a Philippines’ trial court after an unfair trial. The Committee was of the view that the facts revealed violations by the Philippines of article 7 [torture… Read More

REDRESS is shocked and dismayed to learn of the brutal police assault on prominent Zimbabwe human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa on Sunday 12 October 2003. This unlawful attack ironically followed her calling the police to report the attempted hi-jacking of her motor vehicle, and is a further example of how… Read More

Today, REDRESS joins nongovernmental organisations and torture victims’ experts around the world in welcoming the election of five eminent persons to the Board of Directors of the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims. “The election of this Board demonstrates the strong commitment of the International Community to respond to… Read More

Today, British nationals, Bill Sampson, Les Walker and Sandy Mitchell confirm their ordeal of torture during their two year struggle to establish their innocence and release from incarceration in Saudi Arabia. Having endured days of brutal beatings, and cruel threats, confessions were extracted from each of the men and used… Read More