
Polis Asia - The Sigrid Rausing Trust
Polis Asia is a think-tank founded in 2007. After producing research on a range of topics, the project Esimde (“I remember” in Kyrgyz) launched in 2018, has become the main focus of the organization.
Reprieve successful in two death penalty cases
Mar 6, 2020 · Governor Jared Polis is expected to sign the repeal bill in the next ten days, making Colorado the 22nd state in the US to abolish the death penalty. This result was enabled by …
Court finds that Hungarian authorities’ cover-up of a violent police ...
10th November 2017: The European Court of Human Rights has determined that the Hungarian authorities violated the fundamental human rights of a Roma man by covering up a coercive police …
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey - The Sigrid Rausing Trust
Founded in 1990, the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey works to document and denounce torture and provide rehabilitation for survivors. To date it has provided medical and psychological treatment to …
Summary: Ex-wife of former Liberian president arrested and charged …
London, 5th June 2017: The Metropolitan Police have today charged Agnes Taylor with torture for her alleged involvement in atrocities committed by her ex-husband Charles Taylor’s rebel group, the …
Kosovar human rights group plays a role in landmark sexual violence ...
Sep 10, 2021 · The Basic Court of Pristina handed down the first-ever conviction of a perpetrator of wartime sexual violence from a Kosovar court on 5 July 2021. Zoran Vukotić, a Serbian ex …
Victory for human rights organisations as UK Met Police agree to ...
Nov 30, 2022 · SRT grantees Liberty and UNJUST are celebrating after a legal challenge they brought forced the UK’s Metropolitan Police Service to agree to overhaul the controversial Gangs Violence …
Summary: Sudanese human rights activist assaulted and detained by ...
Nov 8, 2013 · Amira Osman, a Sudanese engineer and women’s rights activist, has been assaulted and detained by ‘Public Order police’ in Khartoum after refusing to cover her hair.
Summary: Swiss court convicts former Guatemalan police chief of ...
13 June 2014 6th June 2014: The Criminal Court in Geneva today sentenced former Guatemalan Chief of Police Erwin Sperisen to life in prison for seven extrajudicial executions carried out in 2006.
Community Security Trust - The Sigrid Rausing Trust
The Community Security Trust (CST) is a charity that protects British Jews from antisemitism and related threats. CST received charitable status in 1994 and is recognised by police and Government …