REDRESS is aware of unconfirmed media reports of progress in Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s case, including that the UK has paid a £400m debt that it owes Iran, which has been consistently given by Iranian authorities as the reason for her detention. REDRESS notes that… Read More
Dos años después de que la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH) emitiera su sentencia histórica en el caso Azul Rojas Marín, quien sufrió tortura por discriminación en 2008, el Estado Peruano continúa sin implementar la sentencia. De las diez reparaciones vinculantes ordenadas por la Corte IDH a reparar… Read More
Human rights groups welcomed the arrest by British police of a Sri Lankan suspect in the murder of BBC journalist Nimalarajan Mylvaganam in Jaffna. The Metropolitan Police War Crimes team announced [1] the arrest of a 48-year old man, whom they didn’t name, after conducting what they called… Read More
Today, REDRESS has submitted evidence to the U.S. Government requesting that 11 Sudanese individuals and four entities be designated for sanctions based on their involvement in serious human rights violations since the October military coup in Sudan. This follows similar submissions made by REDRESS to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development… Read More
** News update: Amiera Osman was released in the early hours of 7 February 2022 on bail. We will be updating our press release as more information becomes available. ** متوفر باللغة العربية REDRESS has appealed to United Nations experts to urgently intervene on behalf of… Read More
Today, the Christians have launched their new single Naz Don’t Cry, recorded together with Richard and Gabriella Ratcliffe, with download proceeds going to support REDRESS and the work that we have done to seek Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s freedom since 2016. Naz Don’t Cry is a rework of Man Don’t Cry, a… Read More
During a Westminster Hall debate today, a cross-party group of MPs has, for the first time, named several actors whom it said must be subjected to human rights sanctions. The MPs, led by Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP and Chris Bryant MP, co-chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Magnitsky Sanctions, discussed the genocide of the Uyghurs in China; the state hostage-taking of individuals including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran; the kidnap and torture of the subject of the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina; and the violent military coup in Sudan.
Today, Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has begun his second hunger strike in two years to protest at the failure of the UK government to secure the return home of his wife, who has been arbitrarily detained in Iran since 2016. Since Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to leave “no stone unturned” to bring Nazanin home in 2017, a pledge that has been repeated by four foreign secretaries who have dealt… Read More