Esther Fraile: “Focusing on psychosocial impacts helps us to identify the causes in order to combat them».»

The psychologist from the Sira Centre gave a talk at the 39th Unipau Summer Course, dedicated to the psychosocial impacts generated by migration policies and reception conditions People who undertake migratory transit...

Justice sentences the State to compensate an activist accused of terrorism, for wrongful imprisonment

In 2015, Nahuel, an activist with the vegan anarchist group “Straight Edge”, spent up to 14 months in first-degree pre-trial detention before being acquitted along with his fellow activists. Following his complaint, the state must now compensate him....

The only case of torture during Franco's dictatorship that could testify in Spain has been closed.

The judge took the statement of the complainant and the witness Rosa María García Alcón on 15 September 2023, an exceptional event as it was the first time that victims of Franco's regime had testified in court...

93% of migrants in Mexico report having been detained in inhumane conditions.

Yuriria Salvador and Josué Gómez, both from the Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Centre, located in Tapachula, Chiapas, presented the results of the report “Centros de detención migratoria como entornos torturantes” (Migration detention centres as torturing environments), in whose drafting members of the...

Two new lawsuits filed in Galicia for torture during Franco's regime

The complaints are added to the more than 100 already filed for crimes against humanity committed during Franco's dictatorship CEAQUA, Xosé María Brañas and Manuel Reboiras have filed a complaint in the Courts of Instruction of A Coruña, in the presence of...

Two years of the Law of Democratic Memory: slow and ineffective implementation and lack of justice for victims

Two years after the entry into force of the Law of Democratic Memory, impunity and the lack of decisive action to uncover the truth about the serious crimes committed during Franco's regime are the main causes of the...

The Madrid High Court hears the case of Ahmed and Hakima, recognised by the UN as victims of a housing rights violation.

The couple, who have suffered several rental evictions, filed a patrimonial claim against the Community of Madrid Pau Pérez Sales, clinical director of the Sira Centre, explained before the Chamber of Litigation the expert opinion carried out by the...

Detention centres as torturous environments

The concept of torturing environments allows us to name and understand the violence exercised in immigration detention centres in a broad context, and its effects on people YURIRIA SALVADOR | Advocacy Coordinator of the CDH Fray Matías...