Press releases Archives - Rights & Security International

More autistic people referred to Prevent, new Home Office statistics indicate

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Eighteen per cent of all Prevent referrals involve people with autism diagnoses or ‘suspected’ autism, the Home Office announced today in its annual Prevent statistical release, covering the year from... Read more

Alarm bells are ringing for human rights defenders

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The UK Government’s newly updated guidance on supporting human rights defenders is significantly weaker than the 2019 version — stripping out practical commitments at a time when defenders face escalating... Read more

International Organisations demand the release of defenders Alejandro Henríquez and José Ángel Pérez in El Salvador

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The undersigned international organisations condemn the arbitrary detention of environmental defender Alejandro Henríquez and community leader José Ángel Pérez, who have been detained since May 2025 in El Salvador. Both... Read more

Home Office updates Channel privacy policy following RSI report

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On 28 January, the Home Office updated its Channel privacy notice following the release of RSI’s report, Caught in the Web: Prevent databases and the policing of children. Specifically, the Home... Read more

Home Office refuses to disclose how many British women have been stripped of citizenship

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Home Office refuses to disclose how many British women have been stripped of citizenship The Home Office's refusal to disclose how many British women it has deprived of their nationality... Read more

‘Prevent’, human rights and data protection – RSI Event at Garden Court Chambers

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Launching of the Scoping Study on Independent Civil Society-UN Counterterrorism Engagement Rights & Security International and the US-based Global Center on Cooperative Security have now published the results of a... Read more

Eleven UK rights organisations call on Home Office to investigate data handling practices for Prevent counter-extremism programme

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Signatories of letter led by Rights & Security International include Amnesty International, Liberty, Muslim Council of Britain London, 1 March February 2024 – A group of eleven organisations spearheaded by... Read more

Police failed to record race of nearly two-thirds of people referred to Prevent

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UK repatriates one woman and five children from northeast Syrian camps

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Rights & Security International (RSI) welcomes the recent repatriation of a British woman and five children from the camps in northeast Syria where they had been confined in harsh conditions... Read more

Scrap the ‘Impunity Bill’, RSI tells UK government as deadline looms

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(London, 5 September 2023) - The UK government should drop its plans to finalise the Legacy Bill for Northern Ireland this week, wiping out any hope of truth or justice... Read more

RSI urges President Biden to oppose Legacy Bill in discussion with Prime Minister Sunak

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Don’t give police new surveillance powers, RSI tells Public Bill Committee

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Yesterday, RSI testified before a House of Commons Committee about the negative impacts the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill would have if Parliament adopts it. The Public... Read more

Parliament hears concerns about plans to give police and Home Secretary unaccountable snooping powers

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Yesterday, the Scottish National Party (SNP) echoed RSIs concerns about the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill during a debate in the House of Commons. RSI has briefed... Read more

JCHR quotes RSI on the idea of a human rights ombudsperson in the UK

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On 28 March, the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published its report on the creation of a human rights ombudsperson in the UK, quoting and supporting RSIs... Read more

Rights & Security International raises concerns about Prevent and Channel referrals data on race

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Rights & Security International (RSI) has raised concerns about trends it believes are suggested by data on ethnicity and race from the Government’s Prevent and Channel programmes. The London-based human... Read more

Shamima Begum Decision Leaves Trafficking Survivors and British Migrants Out in the Cold

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Today, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) released a judgement rejecting the appeal of Shamima Begum, a young woman born in the UK and raised in London, against the Home Office's decision... Read more

Independent review of Prevent dismisses expertise, minimises misogynist violence and ignores risks of bias in counter-terrorism strategy

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(London, 8 February 2023) The purportedly independent review of the UK’ Prevent counter-extremism strategy belittles professional expertise, including that of doctors, psychologists and people who work with vulnerable adults, and does not demonstrate a... Read more

Emails raise concerns about potential Home Office interference in the Independent Review of Prevent, says Rights & Security International

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Rights & Security International (RSI), a London-based human rights charity, says copies of emails it has secured through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request raise concerns that the Home Office... Read more

RSI in the House of Lords opposing Northern Ireland amnesty bill

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On 23 November 2022, Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick, a member of the House of Lords, publicly raised RSI’s concerns about the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill during a Committee Stage debate. Quoting from... Read more

RSI in the House of Lords: The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill breaches international human rights law

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On 22 November 2022, the House of Lords Sub-Committee on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland cited RSI’s concerns about the negative impacts of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill on human rights.... Read more