REDRESS is saddened to hear about the passing of Commissioner Ndiamé Gaye, from Senegal, who had been appointed to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in July 2020. In the past year, REDRESS staff worked closely with Commissioner Gaye in his capacity of Chairperson of the Working Group on… Read More
REDRESS has urged the UK government to publicly recognise Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a victim of torture, as new medical evidence of her physical and psychological state confirms the severity of the ill-treatment that she has suffered in Iran. REDRESS has sent to the UK Foreign Secretary, Dominic… Read More
On this International Women’s Day, a great number of survivors of sexual violence, including many women and girls, are still being denied justice. Access to justice for survivors of sexual violence in conflict (CRSV) is particularly difficult: CRSV is stigmatising for survivors, their families and communities, … Read More
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will not be reunited with her husband and daughter in the UK, despite completing her five-year sentence today in Iran. Nazanin has been told to appear before court on Sunday 14 March 2021. This may relate to a second case against Nazanin, which could be… Read More
1 March 2021 marked 18 years of Mustafa al-Hawsawi’s detention at the hands of US forces, since he was detained by Pakistani agents and transferred into the custody of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in March 2003. Mustafa was tortured and detained in secret CIA black sites as part of… Read More
REDRESS has sent a briefing to United Nations human rights experts highlighting the risk that a second case may be used by Iran to block the release of British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at the end of her sentence on 7th March 2021. … Read More
This submission was prepared jointly by REDRESS and Hogan Lovells in response to the call for evidence of the Independent Human Rights Act Review published 13 January 2021. The principal aim of this submission is to share an understanding of how the Human Rights Act 1998 has, through its… Read More
In this Bulletin, we draw attention to the plight of British citizens detained abroad, such as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Jagtar Singh Johal. We also present our new five programmes – Justice, Reparation, Dissent, Discrimination and Solidarity – areas that align with our historical achievements and build on REDRESS’s established strengths. Read More