Briefing on Military Coup Early on the morning of October 25 2021, Sudanese security forces arrested at least five civilian members of Sudan’s transitional government, including Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, as well as other officials and key political leaders. The whereabouts of all detained individuals are… Read More
Early on the morning of October 25 2021, Sudanese security forces arrested at least five civilian members of Sudan’s transitional government, including the prime minister and other officials and key political leaders. The military announced the dissolution of the joint civilian-military transitional government. In response, in a briefing distributed to… Read More
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
The new All-Party Parliamentary Group on Magnitsky Sanctions will be co-chaired by MPs Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Bryant and is supported by REDRESS, the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, the Free Nazanin Campaign and the World Uyghur Congress A new cross-party group of MPs and Peers, working to use targeted sanctions to… Read More
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been told that the appeal of her second sentence has been dismissed. Following the completion of her initial five-year sentence for unfounded charges related to national security, in March this year, Nazanin was sentenced to a further year in prison and an additional one-year travel… Read More
We use strategic litigation and survivor‑centred policy advocacy in the UK to secure justice and reparation for survivors and hold perpetrators accountable. We do this through representing survivors in legal claims, initiating prosecutions, policy advocacy to the UK government on issues relevant to the absolute prohibition of torture, holding the… Read More
Download the Template REDRESS has published a template for Magnitsky sanctions evidence submissions to the UK Government. The template is a guide for NGOs, lawyers, human rights defenders, activists, journalists and academics around the world seeking to have perpetrators designated under the UK’s Global… Read More
We use sanctions to prevent human rights abuses and corruption, through imposing a financial cost on the perpetrators. We do this by investigating abuses and submitting evidence to sanctions authorities; by using data-driven analysis to shape public policy; and by supporting NGOs across the… Read More
