Countering terrorism without torture
REDRESS' work in this area is aimed at ensuring that States' counter-terrorism efforts respect and guarantee the right to be free from torture at all costs. REDRESS published a study on the relationship between counter-terrorism measures and the absolute prohibition against torture in late 2004 and is involved as interested parties in several legal challenges in the United Kingdom in which the relationship between counter-terrorism and human rights is at issue. We are also interveners in a Commission of Inquiry that was established in Canada after one of its citizen's, a dual Canadian Syrian national flying on a Canadian passport, was taken out of airport transit in the United States and rendered to Syria, where he spent a year in detention and was reportedly severely tortured.
See: Letter in Support of Private Prosecutions Filed Against George W. Bush for Torture English - French
See: REDRESS’ report on the United Kingdom: The United Kingdom, Torture and Anti-Terrorism: Where the problems lie, December 2008
Key issues for REDRESS
- Extraordinary Rendition
- Deportation and Non-Refoulment
- Torture Evidence
- UK Troops Abroad
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