Media Coverage
For media enquiries, contact Eva Sanchis, Communications Officer at eva@redress.org or +44(0)2077931777.
- 14 May 2013 - BBC's Newshour, our Deputy Director Mariana Goetz discusses the Syria video which appears to show a rebel mutilating a corpse (she is on at 04.35)
- 6 May 2013 - The Guardian, Torture survivor leads Chileans' battle for justice over Pinochet abuses
- 10 April 2013 - Pambazuka News, Never again means ensuring accountability for the genocide in Rwanda (op-ed)
- 1 April 2013 - Theprisma, Leopoldo Garcia: A Living Death; Theprisma, Leopoldo García: muerto en vida
- 26 March 2013 - Al Jazeera, DR Congo's Ntaganda appears before the ICC
- 25 March 2013 - NewsDay, African body orders State to compensate torture victim
- 25 March 2013, SW Radio Africa, Zimbabwe govt found responsible for torture in landmark ruling
- 24 March 2013 - allAfrica, ACHPR Finds Zimbabwe Guilty of Torture
- 13 March 2013 - London24, Friends of murdered Lewisham charity worker tell of ‘painful memories’ (Article regarding the tragic death of REDRESS' legal adviser Abdelsalam Hassan Abdelsalam in 2010)
- 5 March 2013 - BBC Radio 4, Law in Action - Inside the Supreme Court (our trustee Reverend Nicholas Mercer discusses his concerns about the Justice and Security Bill)
- 4 March 2013 - BBC Radio 4, World at One (our trustee Reverend Nicholas discusses the proposed safeguards for the Justice and Security Bill, starts at 29:19 to 34:12)
- 4 March 2013 - BBC News, Al-Sweady Inquiry opens in UK into deaths of Iraqis
- 1 March 2013 - Uznews.net, Mutabar Tadjibayeva lodges complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee
- 28 February 2013, Ozodlik.org, Тожибоева мажбуран стерилизация қилинганини иддао қилмоқда (article in Russian discussing the case of Mutabar Tadjibayeva)
- 28 February 2013 - AFP, Sudan man's foot, hand 'amputated' by court order
- 28 February 2013 - UPI, Rights groups blast Sudan amputation
- 27 February 2013 - Reuters, Sudan cuts off hand, foot of man convicted of robbery: activists
- 27 February 2013 - Sudan Tribune, Sudan doctors carry out court ordered amputation sentence
- 19 February 2013 - Arise.tv, Laurent Gbagbo stands trial
- 8 February 2013 - DW.de, The ICC has trouble being heard in Libya
- 29 January 2013 - BBC Radio 4's World at One
- 28 January 2013 - Al Jazeera, New Iraq abuse allegations against UK troops
- 27 January 2013 - BBC1, The Big Questions (our trustee Reverend Nicholas Mercer discusses whether torture is ever justified in the light of the release of the controversial film Zero Dark Thirty in the UK)
- 4 January 2013 - BBC Radio 4, Today's Programme (our Legal Advisor Juergen Schurr is on at 2:49.12 and onwards)
- 23 December 2012 - The Guardian's Comment is Free, The British government must come clean over torture in Iraq
- 21 December 2012 - BBC Radio 4, The World Tonight (our Interim Director Dadimos Haile is on at 28:00)
- 20 December 2012 - The Guardian, MOD pays out millions to Iraqi torture victims
- 19 December 2012 - Sudan Tribune, Urgent action in respect of Jalila Khamis Koko
- 23 November 2012 - Trouw (Dutch), Officiële status slachtoffer is slechts een eerste stap
- 21 November 2012 - WeNews, World Court Struggles to Finish Mass Rape Cases
- 21 November 2012 - The Himalayan Times, Torture practiced in Nepal
- 19 November 2012 - The New Times Rwanda, Human rights body seeks revision of Genocide witness protection units
- 15 November 2012 - News of Rwanda, UN Witness Protection Program Forced on Rwanda Ineffective - Report
- 15 November 2012 - Justice in Conflict, Whither Victim Participation
- 1 November 2012 - Thought Economics, Torture
- 12 September 2012 - Kristeligt Dagblad, Torture takes place in half of the world
- 11 September 2012 - Chatham House, "Enforcing the Absolute Prohibition Against Torture", REDRESS' 20th Anniversary lecture with Juan Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on torture (audio and video)
- 27 August 2012, Kathmandu Post, ICJ asks govt to follow int'l norms on COI
- 24 August 2012, Himalayan News Service, Investigate torture involving army
- 23 August 2012, Frontline Club, Bahrain, the abandoned revolution. Carla Ferstman, director of REDRESS, discusses the prospects of accountability for torture in Bahrain (51:45 minutes and onwards) (video).
- 30 July 2012, IRIN News, New ICC prosecutor vows to focus on victims, La nouvelle procureure de la CPI promet de se concentrer sur les victimes
- 18 July 2012, BBC Radio Devon, Shep and Joe Show (It's 2:21 from the start)
- 12 July 2012, Wellesley Townsman, Wellesley High Grad Still Working to Make a Difference
- 10 July 2012, New York Times, International Criminal Court Issues First Sentence
- 10 July 2012, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Congolese Warlord Gets 14 Years for Using Child Soldiers
- 10 July 2012, BBC World Service: World Have Your Say (radio), What does Lubanga's sentence mean for DRC? (Carla Ferstman is on at 20:30 and 28:23)
- 6 July 2012, Pambazuka News, Rwanda: No Justice Without Reparation
- 19 June 2012, openDemocracy, Solitude and dream: Literature post-9/11
- 18 June 2012, Hirondelle News, Rwanda/Genocide: British NGOs call for a Reparation Task Force
- 18 June 2012, BBC World Service, Africa, Rwanda "gacaca" genocide courts finish work
- 16 May 2012, Al Jazeera (video), Hearing begins in CIA rendition case
- 8 May 2012, Yorkshire Post, UK 'safe haven' for war crimes suspects as 200 remain at large
- 4 May 2012, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, من الذي ينصف ضحايا التعذيب في البلاد العربية؟
- 24 April 2012, Scottish Refugee Council's blog: REDRESS: seeking justice for torture survivors
- 12 April 2012, The Guardian, Thorny issue of reparations for Lubanga's victims
- 10 April 2012, IRIN News, Thorny issue of reparations for Lubanga's victims
- 28 March 2012, The New Londoners, The brutal price of independence
- 14 March 2012, Al Jaazera, DR Congo's Lubanga found guilty by ICC. Click to watch video.
- 14 March 2012, AFP, Lubanga reconnu coupable par la CPI: les ONG saluent le jugement
- 14 March 2012, Liberation, Thomas Lubanga coupable de crimes de guerre
- 14 March 2012, Hirondelle News, Jugement Lubanga: une victoire, selon les ONGs
- 14 March 2012, RNW, ICC Judgement day
- 16 February 2012, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, How do you compensate war crimes?
- 13 February 2012, The Times, Protest on Tortured Briton
- 6 February 2012, UCLA Law and ICC Prosecutor's online forum, What International Criminal Court reparations regime would be most appropriate for addressing mass atrocities and war crimes? Carla Ferstman, director of REDRESS, discusses this issue along with other experts.
- 30 January 2012, openDemocracy, Why the UK government must get to the bottom of any complicity in torture
- 20 January 2012, Athens News, Torture victim vindicated after 10 years
- 18 January 2012, Associated Press, UK scraps inquiry into abuse of terrorism suspects
- 13 January 2012, The Independent, Letters to the editor, Guantanamo, ugly stain on America
- 7 January 2012, The Observer, Saif Gaddafi sets Libya's new rulers a test of commitment to human rights
- 6 January 2012, BBC Today's programme (audio), Human rights groups criticise the Detainee Inquiry in an open letter to David Cameron
- 22 November 2011, openDemocracy, Libyan lawyers and human rights: a nascent movement facing a challenge
- 22 November 2011, The Guardian, Iraqi prisoners move closer to inquiry into mistreatment claims
- 22 November 2011, Associated Press, UK court backs Iraqi's bid for inquiry into abuse
- 21 November 2011, The Guardian, Foreign Office admits failings in case of Briton allegedly raped in Egypt
- 7 November 2011, Radio Netherlands, Green light: Sweden Rwanda for genocide extradition
- 28 October 2011, Associated Press, CIDH elabora informe sobre derechos gays para región
- 26 October 2011, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, ICC in Kenyan Victims Assistance Dilemma
- 17 October 2011, Pambazuka News, Rwanda: Short film on genocide case
- 14 October 2011, EJIL: Talk!, blog of the European Journal of International Law, International Law and the Prosecution of Medics in Bahrain
- 28 September 2011, IPS, Concern over ICC funding
- 16 September 2011, Associated Press, Rwandan man in court over murder, rapes in Congo
- 14 September 2011, Pambazuka News, Rwandan genocide survivors still waiting for reparation, Op-ed by Juergen Schurr, REDRESS' legal advisor
- 14 September 2011, Hirondelle News, ICC/Mbarushimana: Registrar flooded with victims requests
- 8 September 2011, Al Jazeera, UK probe: Search for truth or PR stunt?, Inside Story, presenter Folly Bah Thibault discusses the Baha Mousa Report with REDRESS' lawyer Kevin Laue (video)
- 8 September 2011: The Guardian, Army suspends Baha Mousa soldiers as more prosecutions are considered
- 17 August 2011: Embassy (Canadian newspaper on foreign policy), Former War Criminal Leadership Seen as Waning
- 4 August 2011: BBC News, REDRESS' lawyer Kevin Laue talks about withdrawing from the Detainee Inquiry (Video): watch it in our "Watch our videos" section
- 4 August 2011: The Guardian, "Torture Inquiry Boycotted by Human Rights Groups Over Lack of Openness"
- 4 August 2011: The Telegraph, Human Rights Groups Pull Out of Torture Inquiry
- 4 August 2011: Associated Press, Lawyers: Britain's Post 9/11 Torture Inquiry Deeply Flawed
- 4 August 2011: Daily Mail, "Torture Inquiry Will be Toothless, say campaigners"
- 4 August 2011: BBC Today's Programme (Audio), Torture Inquiry Riddled With Secrecy
- 4 August 2011: Radio Canada (Audio, French), Interview with Carla Ferstman, REDRESS' Director, on human rights NGOs' withdrawal from the Detainee Inquiry
- 29 July 2011, openDemocracy, "Gentlemen at home, hoodlums elsewhere": Britain's approach to human rights abroad, Op-ed by REDRESS' Director Carla Ferstman
- 15 July 2011, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Where should former Chadian President Habré, accused of human rights abuses, stand trial? Bridges With Africa presenter Serginho Roosblad interviews REDRESS' director Carla Ferstman
- 26 June 2011, Cumhuriyet, Turkish newspaper, Story on REDRESS and the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (Turkish)
- 16 March 2011, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, In the most dangerous place in the world to be a girl or woman February 21 was a good day
- 4 February 2011, The Guardian, Britain home to nearly 400 war crimes suspects
- 2 February 2011, Conservative Home, If human rights is to be fundamental to foreign policy, the Government must seek justice over the death of Sergei Magnitsky
- 21 January 2011, The Washington Post, Rights experts to investigate jail death of Russian lawyer
- 21 January 2011, News From Africa, Jury still out on ICC trials in DRC
- 18 January 2011, Voice of America, Germany Opens First Rwanda Genocide Trial
- 6 January 2011, Women's e-news, Bemba ICC Trial Showcases War-Rape Prosecution
- 2 December 2010, The Guardian, Arrest warrants for alleged war crimes
- 11 October 2010, African Legal Brief, Justice still remote for victims of atrocities in DRC
- 5 October 2010, Russia Today, Baha Mousa Public Inquiry (To view the video, click on "Read More" and then click on "Watch the full interview with Kevin Laue")
- 14 September 2010, Andy Worthington.co.uk, Nine Human Rights Organizations and Lawyers’ Groups Propose Crucial Guidelines for British Torture Inquiry
- 12 August 2010, IRIN – Humanitarian news and analysis, DRC: International justice denied?
- 14 June 2010, The Zimbabwean, Who is Henry Dowa?
- 30 May 2010, allAfrica.com, Africa: Taking Stock of the International Criminal Court
- 24 November 2009, The Independent, Does this picture show British soldiers broke Geneva Conventions?
- 10 August 2009, BBC News Online
- 5 October 2008 , Scotland on Sunday, 'Spectrum' magazine, 'Special Report: "You're going to confess. We can do anything to you"' by Billy Briggs
- 28 July 2008,The Big Issue North Page 1, Page 2, ‘Torture is “Cruel and Useless”’ by Billy Briggs
- 2 July 2008, The Optimist, ‘A step closer to Redress: new torture bill opens the way for state accountability’ by Paul Glynn
- 6 June 2008, New Law Journal, ‘Risking a Shameful Betrayal’ by Sir Geoffrey Bindman
- 31 May 2008, British Medical Journal, ‘Parliament debates bill to compensate torture survivors’ by Peter Moszynski’
- 19 May 2008, BBC News Live (Audio), ‘Tip on the Torture Damages Bill’ Mark D’Arcy reports for Today in Parliament 16 May 2008
- 17 May 2008, Lords of the Blog, ‘The Right not to be Tortured’ by Baroness D’Souza
- 16 May 2008, BBC News Live (Video), ‘Peers bid for torture redress’
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