Read Dr. Alice Edwards’ full speech On 11 November 2025, we hosted a crucial discussion in Westminster on how the UK can align its domestic laws with its international obligations to prevent torture. The event, co-hosted by REDRESS, the Survivor Advisory Group, and the All-Party Parliamentary… Read More
Location: London (hybrid working) Hours: 5 days a week, with flexible working available. We are also able to consider part-time options. Salary: £37,884 (B1 on REDRESS’ salary scales). Term: fixed term 12 months – maternity leave cover (subject to confirmed funding) Closing Date: 12 December 2025 (12.00 midday). This is… Read More
Survivors of torture are often the ones who articulate most clearly what justice truly means. Today, we share a personal message from the García Family, a powerful expression of pain, healing, and hope following the recent apology issued by the Chilean State to Leopoldo García Lucero’s family. The… Read More
We are deeply saddened about the passing of Najlaa Ahmed, our dear friend, ally, and former Sudan Project Officer, on 3 November 2025. Najlaa was a courageous and highly respected British-Sudanese human rights lawyer who inspired and energised countless people in the human rights movement. She formed… Read More
Four UN Special Rapporteurs have written to the UK government to warn that five UK laws risk undermining the UK’s duty to investigate and prosecute torture and other serious human rights violations, and may cause it to breach its obligations under the UN Convention against Torture. … Read More
This case concerns the arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment of Magdy El-Baghdady by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS, now the General Intelligence Service) in 2011. In 2024, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found Sudan responsible for serious human rights violations and ordered reparation measures, including… Read More
On 4 November 2025, during Malawi’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), numerous UN Member States urged Malawi to decriminalise consensual same-sex relations and take concrete steps to prevent, investigate, and prosecute acts of torture, ill-treatment, and discrimination against LGBTIQ+ persons. The UPR is… Read More
Today marks eight years since Jagtar Singh Johal, a British citizen from Dumbarton, Scotland, was violently arrested by authorities in Jalandhar, northern India. Plainclothes officials hooded him on a crowded street and forced him into an unmarked police car — without a warrant. He has been separated from his… Read More
