Vilnius Regional Court has issued its final rejection of REDRESS’ application for victim status for Mustafa al-Hawsawi in a pre-trial criminal investigation into CIA secret prisons (also known as black sites) in Lithuania. This status would have allowed Mr. al-Hawsawi to participate in the ongoing investigation, including to request access… Read More
Today MPs will debate the UK’s role in the CIA’s rendition and torture programme, when the House of Commons holds an Adjournment Debate on this issue at the end of the day’s sitting. Commenting on today’s parliamentary debate, Carla Ferstman, Director of REDRESS, said: “Today’s debate in Parliament on ‘UK… Read More
This handbook aims to support and encourage journalists of varied experience to report on torture effectively. In doing so, we seek to assist journalists in the vital role they play in ‘breaking the silence’ around torture – a crime that thrives when perpetrators are left unscrutinised. Available in English, Spanish,… Read More
A new handbook launches today, on the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, to support journalists who report on torture. The ‘Reporting on Torture’ handbook provides accurate, up-to-date information and guidance in four languages (English, Arabic, Spanish and Nepalese) to help journalists cover the subject in… Read More
The 2010 outbreak of cholera in Haiti – which has since led to the deaths of at least 9,000 people and the sickness of 770,000 others – is understood to have resulted from the improper waste management of a United Nations base. Given REDRESS’ extensive experience in reparations law and… Read More
REDRESS intervened in the case regarding Egyptian General Hegazy and the question of "special mission immunity".
In a strong opinion released on 26 May, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has ordered Iran to immediately release and provide compensation to Kurdish women’s human rights defender Zeinab Jalalian – believed to be the only female political prisoner currently sentenced to life imprisonment in Iran.
This report, authored by Lawyers For Justice in Libya (LFJL) and REDRESS, builds upon our past legal commentary of Libya’s Draft Constitution 2014 following the publication of an updated Constitutional Draft in April 2016. This commentary reiterates Libya’s international human rights obligations for ensuring the absolute prohibition of torture; provides… Read More