Casework database
REDRESS currently has over one hundred active cases in more than 40 countries encompassing all regions of the world. Given the sensitivity of the information, we are only able to highlight information which is in the public domain.
CASE BACKGROUND The armed conflict between the Communist Party (so called Maoist groups) and the government in Nepal took place between 1996 and 2006. During the conflict, human rights violations against the civilian population were commonplace, including torture, deprivation of life, enforced disappearance, arbitrary arrest, massacres, and sexual violence. The conflict resulted in the deaths of 17,000 people and the internal displacement of…
CASE BACKGROUND In October 2011, Mr X (name given to him to protect his identify), a member of the Tawergha community, was arbitrarily arrested…
Aleksey Mikheyev, a Russian traffic police officer, was detained and tortured by police in September 1998 during a murder inquiry. CASE BACKGROUND In September 1998, traffic-police officer Aleksey Mikheyev was detained in Nizhniy Novgorod during a…
Six nationals of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ms Munira Mujkanović, Ms Asima Memić, Mr Vehidin Elezović, Mr Muharem Elezović, Ms Naila Bajrić and Ms…
Dominic Ongwen, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), was convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of 61 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes carried out in northern Uganda between 1 July 2002 and 31 December 2005. Following his conviction, the largest Reparations Order was issued by the ICC,…
This case concerns the arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment of Magdy El-Baghdady by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS, now the General Intelligence Service) in 2011. In 2024, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found Sudan responsible for serious human rights violations and ordered reparation measures, including…
