Chris Esdaile

Chris Esdaile is a senior legal adviser at Redress, an NGO that advocates for torture victims. He is representing Mustafa al-Hawsawi in a landmark case that challenges the UK government’s longstanding secrecy regarding its intelligence agencies' involvement in the CIA’s torture program after 9/11. Esdaile has emphasized the unprecedented nature of the judicial scrutiny being applied to the UK’s complicity in torture.