How can Prisoners Abroad help when someone raises a potential human rights abuse with us?

Prisoners Abroad works to protect the health, wellbeing and basic human rights of British citizens detained abroad. The worldwide protection of human rights is very complex; our range of factsheets aims to provide more background information on issues such as torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and how to make complaints to a human rights body. In many cases, human rights complaints are best dealt with through the legal system in the country where someone is detained, and therefore seeking legal advice from a lawyer will be the best solution.  

Prisoners Abroad employs Human Rights Advisers – seconded to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) – who can give general advice and training to both organisations about what constitutes a human rights abuse and what can be done about it. The Human Rights Advisers cannot give advice to individuals, nor can they provide legal advice. If a person whom we are supporting alleges a breach of their human rights, or if we have concerns, we will raise it and ask for advice.