Grantee News: Media Defence has welcomed a Zimbabwe High Court ruling quashing criminal charges against Zimbabwe Independent editor Faith Zaba, whose legal defence it…
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Grantee News: The Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law (CEDEM) has welcomed new legislation that has come into force simplifying residency procedures for…
Grantee News: The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the Háttér Society, and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, along with Amnesty International Hungary, have secured a major…
Grantee News HOPE not Hate continues to uncover racist and extremist rhetoric linked to Reform UK candidates and councillors following the UK’s local elections.
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18th July 2018: A member of a banned far-right group has been found guilty of ‘preparing an act of terrorism’ and ‘making threats to kill’…
Berlin, 8th June 2018: German prosecutors have issued an international arrest warrant for the head of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence, Jamil Hassan, on charges…
Banjul, 17th May 2018: SRT grantees Equality Now and the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), along with several Sierra Leonean human rights organisations,…
17th May 2018: The British government has apologised to Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar for the UK’s role in their 2004 abduction, torture, and rendition…
30th April 2018: New evidence including satellite imagery, photo and video analysis show that the Iranian authorities are deliberately destroying suspected or confirmed mass grave…
19th April 2018: The Liberian warlord Mohammed Jabbateh was sentenced today to 30 years in prison, marking an important milestone for justice in Liberia. Thirty…
21st April 2018: Former Sigrid Rausing Trust grantee Disability Action has today launched the Visible? project, a history of disability rights in Northern Ireland told through the voices…
Washington DC, 9th April 2018: Former SRT grantee the Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA ) and Shearman & Sterling LLP, acting on behalf of the…
At least 44 prisoners currently serving life sentences in Belize will be re-sentenced following an important judgment by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). After…
21st March 2018: A Bahraini criminal court has convicted and sentenced Duaa Alwadaei, the wife of human rights defender Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, to two months…