Earlier this year the High Court ordered the Home Office to review asylum support. The Home Office has now announced that the level of support to a single adult asylum seeker will not be changing from its level of around £36 a week.
Susan Munroe has been selected for appointment as the new Chief Executive Officer of Freedom from Torture. It is expected that she will take up the role on 1st September 2014.
Rape, including gang rape and multiple rape, is used routinely by state officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to punish politically active women.
Freedom from Torture is appalled by new evidence smuggled out of Syria which appears to show the bodies of at least 11,000 people tortured and killed in Syrian jails.
