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
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
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
متوفر باللغة العربية REDRESS and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) welcome today’s historic news that Sudan’s Sovereign Council has approved the ratification of the two main international treaties banning torture and enforced disappearances. This development follows years of advocacy efforts by Sudanese… Read More
The UK government has been urged to seek the release of British national Jagtar Singh Johal, after it was revealed that he is facing a death sentence in India. Jagtar has been arbitrarily detained since 2017, when he was snatched off the street by plain clothes… Read More
Quatre ans après la condamnation de l’ancien président tchadien l’Union africaine n’a toujours pas mis en place le Fonds au profit des victimes L’Union africaine n’a pas encore mis en place le Fonds fiduciaire pour indemniser les victimes de l’ancien président tchadien Hissène Habré, quatre ans après sa condamnation historique… Read More
Lire le communiqué de presse en français 4 Years After Hissène Habré’s Conviction, African Union Fails to Put in Place Victims’ Fund The African Union has yet to set up a Trust Fund to compensate victims of the former Chadian president Hissène Habré, four years after his… Read More
On 1-3 December, nine Caribbean countries, involving 23 government representatives, took part in an online workshop organised by the Convention against Torture Initiative, REDRESS and the Commonwealth Secretariat, hosted by the Governments of Chile and Grenada. The workshop was designed to support Caribbean governments to ratify, implement and report under the UN Convention against Torture and focused specifically on drafting cogent legal provisions for the criminalisation, prosecution and prevention of acts of torture and other ill-treatment.