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 the special issue of the Torture Journal, focused on the consideration of enforced disappearance as torture, to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. He was joined by Helena Solà Martín, senior legal policy advisor at the World Organisation Against Torture […]
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 Indigenous Black Creole Community of Bluefields accuse Nicaragua of violating their rights by granting the concession for the mega-project "Grand Interoceanic Canal," which crosses their lands. Last Thursday, February 2nd, the clinical director of the Sira Center, Pau Pérez Sales, acted as an expert witness […]
Amicus Curiae: Emil Bustamante's family is a victim of torture
The Sira Center presents an amicus curiae brief detailing the impacts of this forced disappearance on the family, impacts still felt more than 40 years later. On February 13, 1982, Emil Bustamante Cruz, 32, a veterinarian and rural sociologist, left his home in Guatemala City early to attend to […]
The Sira Centre provides an expert witness to a young man who denounces the Syrian government in the United States for the torture he suffered.
Obada Mzaik, detained and tortured in 2012 at a detention center in Syria, is seeking justice, accountability for the Syrian regime, and reparations for himself and other victims of torture. At the request of the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), the Syrian Center for the Care of Victims of Ill-Treatment and Torture (SIRA) has filed a lawsuit.