Featured cases
Since our founding, we have participated in numerous national and international projects, which have been a significant achievement for us. We work to denounce torture and support those who suffer it.
We glanced back briefly to gather momentum and continue walking. These are some of the outstanding cases from the Sira Center.
We accompany people to regain control of their lives and stand up for the truth of their stories.
Latest actions
We carry out various advocacy actions to denounce cases of violence and mistreatment. We work to eradicate torture.
Since the exposure of police infiltration in social movements across the country, Sira has accompanied and assessed virtually all of those affected using the Istanbul Protocol. These are some of the impacts...
Esther Quintana lost her left eye after being hit by a rubber bullet in 2012. The Sira Center assessed her case to document the psychosocial impact this attack had on her life. Esther Quintana received...
On September 15, 2023, after more than six years of legal battles in Spain and over 100 lawsuits filed, Julio Pacheco and Rosa García became the first people to testify before a...
On July 20 and 21, 2023, at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Spain presented its seventh periodic report on the implementation of the Convention against Torture to the Committee against Torture...
As a result of the power outage, the need for mental health care in the Cañada Real area has increased fivefold. The lack of electricity limits access to basic rights, generating impacts...
At the request of Evelyn Recinos, the lawyer representing Emil Bustamante's wife and daughters, we filed an amicus curiae brief with the United Nations Human Rights Committee during the admissibility phase of the case. The lawyer...
The Rama and Kriol peoples, the Monkey Point Community, and the Black Creole Indigenous Community of Bluefields accuse the State of Nicaragua of violating their rights by granting the concession for the mega-project "Grand Interoceanic Canal," which crosses...
Over the past 20 years, numerous reports have been issued in Mexico warning of the incomplete and inadequate use of the Istanbul Protocol by the bodies responsible for prosecuting torture crimes. Regarding...
In December 2022, Pau Pérez Sales, clinical director of the Sira Center and editor-in-chief of the Torture Journal, presented a special issue of the journal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances...
In 2018, the National Mechanism for the Prevention and Combat of Torture (MNPCT), together with various local and international organizations, initiated a process to demand that Brazilian authorities fulfill their obligation to...
The case map
Next to HURIDOCS We have created a map to highlight the impacts and cases of torture and ill-treatment at an international level.
