Freedom from Torture's Lessons Not Learned report highlighted a series of failures in Home Office decision-making on asylum claims spanning 15 years. Today, leading refugee and migrant organisations have published an open letter to the Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Priti Patel MP signed by over 6500 individuals calling for high level commitment to a humane, fair and efficient asylum and immigration decision-making process that has a culture of protection at its heart.
One survivors story about how she was wrongly imprisoned in a detention centre in the UK before getting a place at a top law school in London on a scheme for asylum seekers.
Freedom from Torture is delighted that two of our leading torture survivor activists, Kolbassia Haoussou and Nadine Tunasi, have been appointed as Survivor Champions for the UK Government’s Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI).
Our CEO Sonya Sceats and Survivors Speak Out's Kolbassia Haoussou were joined by Dominic Grieve, Peter Oborne, and Ryan Shorthouse to talk about the rise of authoritarianism abroad and at home.
Climate justice is a human rights issue. The adverse impacts of climate change directly and indirectly threaten the full and effective enjoyment of a range of human rights by people throughout the world.
Freedom from Torture have published a new report, Lessons Not Learned, which exposes the historical and systemic failures of asylum decision-making in the UK.
Freedom from Torture is concerned that the resurfaced comments from 2003, made by UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, is in line with today's government agenda to undermine a complete torture ban.
Zoe's ground-breaking pain management therapy is empowering survivors to deal with the physical effects of torture and transforming their lives for the better
Write To Life's member Sheila reflects on her life in limbo, endlessly waiting for the Home Office to process her asylum claim whilst not being allowed to work.
Here at Freedom from Torture, we offer a variety of different therapies to help survivors heal from their torture. Read how equine therapy helped Gopal.
We strive to support and rehabilitate survivors of torture here in the UK. Chaturi, 41, is from Sri Lanka and was tortured for her connection to the Tamil Tigers. Read the rest of her story.
Our response to today's news that the government has shut down efforts to bring real closure on British complicity in torture. This is categorically wrong and no British government can turn its back on history in this way.
Freedom from Torture welcomes the Judgement (handed down on 16 July 2019) which finds that the UK Home Office discriminated against detainees ASK and MDA, on grounds of their poor mental health and their inability to “engage in important decisions” relating to their continued detention.
