Freedom from Torture receives message from Yarl's Wood detainee detailing planned protests against the detention of torture survivors as the Government lays plans to put the flawed torture definition
Freedom from Torture is disappointed by the decision of the European Court of Human Rights not to re-open whether the notorious “five techniques” used by UK interrogators amounted to torture.
Freedom from Torture, the only UK-based human rights organisation solely dedicated to the treatment and rehabilitation of torture survivors, has chosen Sonya Sceats as its new Chief Executive.
On 12 March the Human Rights Council in Geneva discussed the devastating report of the late Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran, Asma Jahangir.
Freedom from Torture has joined other leading human rights organisations to call on the UN Human Rights Council member states to vote in favour of the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Nasrin Parvaz, a member of Survivors Speak OUT, explains why the international community must put more pressure on the government of Iran to stop torture and other human rights abuses.
Freedom from Torture is concerned that the announcement that the government of Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency will be an excuse for security forces to take a step backwards in their use of arbitrary detention and torture to control protests and unrest.
We want the international community to put pressure on the Government of Sri Lanka to start delivering on long-promised measures to address accountability for torture and other human rights abuses.
Freedom from Torture’s new report “Turning a blind eye: Why the international community must no longer ignore torture in Iran” analyses forensic evidence of torture documented in the cases of 69 Iranian survivors of torture.
The Government has admitted that its immigration detention system needs reform. What’s the human cost of immigration detention on vulnerable people, like the refugees who’ve survived torture that we work with?
