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Open Letter on the Continued Repression of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Staff
In this open letter, REDRESS and 19 Egyptian and international non-governmental organisations urge the Embassies of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States to Egypt, and the European Union Delegation to Egypt, to take action to… Read More
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REDRESS Responds to Call for Input from the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture on the Duty to Investigate Crimes of Torture
REDRESS has responded to a call for input from the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Dr Alice Edwards, on the challenges preventing effective accountability and justice for victims and survivors of torture, and good practices on the duty to investigate crimes of torture. The input received will inform the report that… Read More
Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture on the Duty to Investigate Crimes of Torture in National Law and Practice
This submission responds to a call for input from the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture on the challenges preventing effective accountability and justice for victims and survivors of torture, and good practices on the duty to investigate crimes of torture. REDRESS’s submission identifies: Inadequacies in national legal frameworks against torture,… Read More
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The Bars of the Prison Grew Around Us: The Systematic Human Rights Violations of Iran’s Hostage-Taking Practice
This report, authored by the Free Nazanin Campaign and REDRESS, details for the first time the systematic pattern of human rights abuses committed through Iran’s hostage-taking practice. The report draws in part from detailed testimonies from 26 victims of hostage-taking or their family members, who shared their experiences from their… Read More
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Free Nazanin Campaign and REDRESS’s Report Details Iran’s Abuses during Hostage-Taking Ahead of UN Special Session on Iran
Read the report Ahead of a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on the deterioration of the human rights situation in Iran tomorrow, REDRESS and the Free Nazanin Campaign have published a report, which details for the first time the systematic pattern of human… Read More
MPs Call for Greater Coordination in the UK’s Use of Targeted Sanctions to Hold Human Rights Abusers and Corrupt Actors Accountable
Download our factsheet: The UK’s Use of Coordinated Magnistky Sanctions Today, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Magnitsky Sanctions called for greater coordination between the UK and its partners in imposing targeted “Magnitsky” sanctions against human rights abusers and corrupt actors. “Magnitsky” sanctions were first introduced by the… Read More
Fact Sheet: The UK’s Use of Coordinated Magnitsky Sanctions
This factsheet provides recommendations to the UK Government on how to improve its multilateral approach to Magnitsky sanctions by sanctioning more perpetrators already identified and sanctioned by partner jurisdictions where they meet the requirements for designation under the UK regime, and where the UK has failed to sanction. Read More
