Pau Pérez stresses before the UN that the permanent suffering caused to families by enforced disappearance is torture

The clinical director of the Sir[a] Center presented to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances the special issue of the Torture Journal, focusing on the consideration of enforced disappearance as torture...

Violence in transit worsens as migrants approach Europe

The Community Action Group (GAC) and the Sira Center presented some of the conclusions of their new report, “Labyrinths of Torture: Violence and Impacts on Migration Transit from Africa to Spain.” They were accompanied by Isidore Collins, advisor...

Sira is an expert witness for the indigenous and Afro-descendant communities that are suing Nicaragua before the Inter-American Court.

The Rama and Kriol peoples, the Monkey Point Community, and the Black Creole Indigenous Community of Bluefields accuse Nicaragua of violating their rights by granting the concession for the mega-project "Grand Interoceanic Canal," which crosses their lands...

Sira's expert testimony was key in the ruling that compensated a couple imprisoned for "jihadism," despite their innocence.

The man spent up to three years in pretrial detention, while his partner spent just under a year. In 2019, the Supreme Court acquitted them after a retrial. For almost four years, the Center for Attention to...

Sira is an expert witness for one of the four new plaintiffs who are denouncing torture during the dictatorship.

With these, there are now five lawsuits filed by victims of repression during the dictatorship, following the approval of the new Democratic Memory Law. The State Coordinator for Support of the Argentine Lawsuit (CEAQUA) filed yesterday, February 21,...

Sira examines the young man who lost an eye at the hands of the Civil Guard at the Melilla border fence

Assisted by Irídia, he has filed a lawsuit for torture and assault, with the aggravating factors of racism and public presence. The young man was attacked with a baton during the March 2nd protest...

Amicus Curiae: Emil Bustamante's family is a victim of torture

The Sira Center presents an amicus curiae brief detailing the impact this forced disappearance had on the family, impacts still felt more than 40 years later. On February 13, 1982, Emil Bustamante Cruz, 32 years old,...

Since the power outage, the need for mental health care among the population of Cañada Real has increased fivefold.

Following an expert report from the Sir[a] Center, the Community Action Group (GAC) published the report “La Cañada Responds,” which measures the psychological, physical, and community impacts of the deprivation of electricity supply...

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