A new REDRESS report explores the effectiveness of the current legal system in the Netherlands in ensuring the rights of victims of violence in pre-trial and immigration detention. The Netherlands have adopted a strong framework on victims’ rights within its domestic criminal system: victims have to be informed of their… Read More
REDRESS is calling once more on India to urgently investigate the serious allegations of torture in the case of Jagtar Singh Johal, as Monday 18 March marks 500 days of his imprisonment in India. REDRESS also urges India to respond to an appeal made by three… Read More
An expert panel discussion will be held on 21 March, exploring some of the key findings of the 2019 UJAR Report, published by TRIAL International, with the support of REDRESS, FIDH (The International Federation for Human Rights), the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights and FIBGAR. The event… Read More
By Charlie Loudon, International Legal Adviser at REDRESS. *This op-ed was originally published on The Huffington Post here. The UK foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has announced a decision to grant diplomatic protection to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Nazanin is a British-Iranian mother who has been unlawfully… Read More
This joint NGO Letter to the Core Group and Co-Sponsoring States to the initiative for the creation of a new multilateral treaty for the domestic prosecution of the most serious international crimes – or Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) Initiative – was sent in response to the Draft Convention on International Cooperation in… Read More
The UK Foreign Secretary has today granted diplomatic protection to British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The decision follows longstanding appeals from REDRESS and Nazanin’s family that the UK formally recognise her imprisonment and mistreatment by Iran as breaches of international law. The decision comes as Iran continues to deny crucial medical… Read More
This is a briefing on diplomatic protection, a mechanism by which a State may secure protection and obtain reparation for a legally wrongful act committed against one of its nationals, and what it means in the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case. Read More
In many conflicts in Africa, from the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, Libya under Muammar Gaddafi, Sudan during the civil war, and Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe, opponents of the government or people just in the wrong place at the wrong time have disappeared. The victims of these enforced disappearances… Read More
