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This briefing explains the key objectives of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Magnitsky Sanctions. It details what should be the priorities of the UK government and its range of policy and advocacy activity.

The Human Rights Committee, a UN body which examines human rights complaints, has found Sri Lanka responsible for the arbitrary arrest and torture of Asantha Aravinda by the Sri Lankan police in 2008.   REDRESS and Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), who brought the case before the Committee in 2011, welcome the decision issued on 24 November 2021. … Read More

Asantha Aravinda is a Sri Lankan man who was beaten and arbitrarily arrested by the Sri Lankan police in2008 following a traffic accident. He was detained for several days, denied medical care and tortured.   ASANTHA’S STORY  On 28 February 2008, Asantha Aravinda and his friend were riding a motorbike when they almost collided with a truck, whose driver had missed… Read More

More than 30 organisations from around the globe, including REDRESS, unite to protect human rights defenders. The protocol is endorsed by a number of UN experts and former rapporteurs of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The initiative is led by the Center for Justice and International Law – CEJIL. 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

This report provides information on REDRESS’s activities from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021, including a review of our impact and activities, governance and management, and a financial review; an Independent Auditors Report, with their opinion on the accounts of the charity for the financial year, and 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.