An alleged former Gambian “death squad” member has been indicted in the United States on 11th June 2020 on torture charges. A coalition of victims…
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The judgment by the EU Court of Justice was one of four successful rulings in one day for the Hungarian Helsinki Committee…
On 25 April 2020, NHK World Doc released a video, “Digital Detectives”, which explores the revolution of open source investigations within the field of journalism…
Two Azerbaijani human rights defenders, supported by Trust grantee European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), have been acquitted following arrest and detention in 2014 and…
In a groundbreaking ruling published on 6th April 2020, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) has found Peru responsible for the torture and sexual…
Four young men in Egypt have escaped the death penalty for crimes allegedly committed when they were minors. Three of the men, who were all…
On 25th March, the UK Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that the UK Government had acted unlawfully in providing or agreeing to provide…
On Tuesday, 10th March, Gibril Massaquoi, a Sierra Leonean national, was arrested in Tampere, Finland, by the Finnish police who suspect that he committed war…
In February 2020, SRT grantee Reprieve helped to secure the release of Evance, the 143rd person to have been released from death row in Malawi,…
The Court of Appeal of Belize delivered a judgment on 30th December 2019 denying the Belize Government’s appeal of a 2016 ruling that decriminalised adult…