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Three elderly Kenyan victims of torture during the Mau Mau independence struggle in the 1950s today won a historic legal victory against the British Government, after the High Court rejected the Government’s argument that their claims are time barred under English law. The case will now proceed to a full… Read More
On 25 September, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the prohibition of the use of evidence allegedly obtained under torture in criminal proceedings in a case against Belgium. REDRESS and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), which have both intervened as amicus curiae, welcome the ruling… Read More
Dadimos Haile, a former Ethiopian High Court judge, has been appointed interim director of REDRESS, an organization which helps torture survivors seek justice. He will take up the role on 1 October 2012 on a 9-month secondment. Haile will be covering for Carla Ferstman, REDRESS’ permanent director, who has received… Read More
Today the International Criminal Court in The Hague begins hearing closing arguments in the case against Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, the first case to reach this stage at the ICC. Read More
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has again found the government of Nepal responsible for the disappearance and torture of one of its citizens, and called on it to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators. And, in a first for such a case, as part of the remedy awarded, Nepal’s government… Read More
leer en español Trial Chamber I established, for the first time in the ICC’s history, the principles that are to be applied to providing reparations for victims in the Lubanga case. [1] On 14 March 2012, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was found guilty of the war crimes… Read More
Today, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered a landmark decision on reparations. The decision outlines the principles to be applied in relation to reparation for victims in the case of Thomas Lubanga, who was found guilty in March of the war crimes of enlisting and using… Read More
REDRESS welcomes the recommendation in the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) report released today that the UK needs to place democratic values at the heart of its response to the Arab Spring. In its report British Foreign Policy and the ‘Arab Spring’, the FAC examined in particular the dramatic developments in… Read More