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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCrimes against humanity in Venezuela: UN report urges accountabilityA 443-page report, released today by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThis “strong man” populism is alarmingly familiar to people here fleeing human rights abusesThe Trump and Johnson administrations’ attacks on the judiciary and lawmakers are part of a broader rise of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe UK is 'getting worse' on torture and ill-treatment both at home and abroadAs the UK faces UN scrutiny in Geneva this week, a new report examining everything from British prisons and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe UN’s Committee Against Torture is about to examine the UK’s treatment of prisoners – and it’s not looking goodIf we care about human rights at all, we should care about the drastic deterioration in prison conditions under ‘austerity’.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRemembering against the tide: Giulio Regeni and the transnational horizons of memoryTwo years after the murder of Giulio Regeni, the call for truth and justice has yet to be answered.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPain, torture and alienationDue to Egypt’s dire political and economic situation, pain and alienation are bound to be a feature of the lives of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe victims of tyranny and the need for transitional justice in TunisiaIt is important that a law be enacted to criminalize the whitening of dictatorships so that those longing for the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSir Nigel Rodley versus Donald Trump on tortureThe novelty and danger posed by the new US president is the fact that he either does not know, or does not care,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPain and torture: state violence in EgyptThe root of state violence and torture is not poor police training, nor a political decision that can be reversed,...
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Published in: HomeTorture was once 'normal' in Georgia's prisons — this is how they 'effectively abolished' itGeorgia's prisons used to be dirty and dangerous. Prisoners recounted beatings and NGOs reported institutionalised...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaShame on those who try to justify Giulio Regeni’s assassinationClaims that Regeni’s supervisors bear responsibility for sending him into danger are outrageous, betraying both...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaInsecurity under Egypt's ‘security’ forcesAbuses are systemic despite regime attempts to portray them as 'isolated'. People have much to fear from the police...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDamascus’ stifled voice from the leftThe story of Syrian Revolutionary Youth: the rise and fall of a grassroots movement offering a third alternative...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaClawing at the sky: fighting for political prisoners in Syria"It is the most monstrous thing they can do to the Syrian people”. Fadwa Mahmoud, mother, wife and comrade to...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyria, storytelling, and all things between: a meta-commentary on ‘the Prisoner Series’Al-Akhbar English (AAE) is the English branch of a prominent Lebanese newspaper, Al-Akhbar. During the second week...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTime for accountability: Europe’s role in extraordinary renditionEuropean governments remain complicit in rendition, a process designed to put interrogations beyond the law. Britain...
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Published in: oDRBehind the scenes at the death squads of ChechnyaFormal hostilities may have ceased in Chechnya, but civilians continue to be abducted, tortured and murdered by the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 18th 2011This week we lead with the Committee for the Prevention of Torture's new Report on Poland - highlighting a serious...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 4th 2011
We lead this weeks Report with news that the Bolivian government has formally notified the UN Secretary General of...
