Today’s launch of the Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regime by the Foreign Secretary is welcomed by a coalition of the UK’s leading anti-corruption organisations. The regime, if robustly implemented, will help the UK: Coordinate more effectively with allies like the US and Canada to close down the west as a safe… Read More
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has received a further sentence of one year. It is not clear whether she will be returned to prison or house arrest with an ankle tag. Nazanin’s lawyer was summoned to Judge Salavati’s office today, where he was told… Read More
Libya violated the rights of Libyan human rights defender Magdulein Abaida by failing to investigate her arbitrary arrest and torture, the UN body of experts that monitors implementation of the main global treaty on women’s rights has found. The decision, issued today, is emblematic in two ways: it is the… Read More
Five years to the day since the arrest of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Iran continues to hold her hostage and refuses to allow her to reunite with her husband and daughter in the UK. Despite having officially completed her sentence on the 7th March… Read More
REDRESS welcomed today the announcement by the UK government that it has designated for sanctions four senior Chinese officials and one entity for their roles in serious human rights abuses in Xinjiang, China. The Chinese individuals and entity were sanctioned under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA) and… Read More
As the European Union is expected to announce today sanctions against senior Chinese officials and entities linked to human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, REDRESS has written to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, calling for urgent action from the UK government in imposing similar… Read More
Today, REDRESS has written to UN experts requesting them to issue a public statement in the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, following the conclusion of her second trial on Sunday. The request was made in collaboration with Dr Tatyana Eatwell, a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, who has provided pro-bono legal… Read More
CTI, REDRESS and the Commonwealth Secretariat release report on Online Workshop for Commonwealth Caribbean Countries on UNCAT Ratification, Legislative Reform and Reporting