RSI Repatriation Tracker in the news
23rd February 2024
RSI's repatriation tracker has been cited by Reuters and South China Morning Post on their articles about Shamima Begum's case. Read more
House of Commons hears RSIs concerns about new police snooping powers
26th May 2023
On Tuesday 16 May, the Labour Party supported RSI’s analysis of the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill in a Committee debate. RSI has repeatedly raised concerns that... Read more
Don’t give police new surveillance powers, RSI tells Public Bill Committee
11th May 2023
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
Media Advisory: Information Tribunal hearing over refusal to reveal numbers of women and parents stripped of citizenship
26th April 2023
Human rights research group Rights Security International (RSI) has a hearing in the Information Tribunal on Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 April over its Freedom of Information (FOI) request about... Read more
Rights & Security International raises concerns about Prevent and Channel referrals data on race
6th March 2023
Rights & Security International (RSI) has raised concerns about trends it believes are suggested by data on ethnicity and race from the Governments Prevent and Channel programmes.The London-based human rights... Read more
Shamima Begum Decision Leaves Trafficking Survivors and British Migrants Out in the Cold
22nd February 2023
Today, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) released Read more
Independent review of Prevent dismisses expertise, minimises misogynist violence and ignores risks of bias in counter-terrorism strategy
8th February 2023
(London, 8 February 2023)The purportedly independent review of the UK Prevent counter-extremism strategy belittles professional expertise, including that of doctors,psychologistsand 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
23rd January 2023
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
Europe’s highest court stresses RSI’s work in major ruling
15th September 2022
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled yesterday in a Read more
UK failing to prevent torture of citizens in northeast Syria, despite global move to protect vulnerable people
13th July 2022
The United Kingdom (UK) is becoming increasingly isolated in its refusal to repatriate any British women and the majority of British children from squalid, life-threatening camps in northeast Syria, Rights... Read more
GOVERNMENT’S PREVENT STRATEGY IS HINDERING ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANTI-RACISM MOVEMENTS, AS WELL AS MUSLIM GROUPS, NEW RESEARCH FINDS
23rd March 2022
Today Rights & Security International (RSI) publishes a new report that starkly reveals the ways in which the government's Prevent strategy hinders free speech and discourages non-violent political activism across... Read more
UN experts tell UK its citizenship-stripping powers could discriminate and break international law
17th February 2022
(London, 17 February 2022) – Top UN human rights experts, including specialised experts on racism and human trafficking, told the UK government last night that its citizenship-stripping practices and attempts to... Read more
UK must repatriate all British children and women from detention camps in northeast Syria now
20th October 2021
Authorities should also avoid separating families Rights & Security International (RSI) welcomes the news that the UK government repatriated three British children from detention camps in northeast Syria on Monday... Read more
Home Office refuses to disclose how many British women have been stripped of citizenship
29th March 2021
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
Home Office refuses to disclose how many British women have been stripped of citizenship
29th March 2021
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
Follow Belgium by repatriating children and women from squalid Syrian camps, RSI urges governments
5th March 2021
Belgian policy announced yesterday should prompt other returns and rights protections(London, 5 March 2021) - Belgiums decision to take back a significant number of Belgian children and women from squalid... Read more
UK SUPREME COURTS RULING IN SHAMIMA BEGUM CASE IS INCONSISTENT WITH HUMAN RIGHTS
26th February 2021
(London, 26 February 2021) - Today, the UK Supreme Court has disappointingly ruled that Shamima Begum, who travelled to Syria as a school child in the context of the Islamic... Read more
RSIs response to UN statement on repatriation from North East Syrian camps of women and children from 57 States
9th February 2021
(London, 8 February 2021) - The 57 countries that have citizens languishing in life-threatening and rights-violating conditions in camps in North East Syria, including the UK, Belgium, Germany, France and... Read more
Explain Prevent reviewer appointment process and plans for overcoming credibility gap with Muslim communities, RSI tells Home Office
27th January 2021
The UK Home Office should explain the non-transparent process it used to Read more
RSI Statement on weekend repatriations from Germany and Finland
22nd December 2020
(22.12.2020) – UK, other governments should follow Germany and Finland in bringing back women and children from Syrian camps The UK and other governments should follow Germany’s and Finland’s lead... Read more