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.
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…
Thai human rights lawyer and pro-democracy activist Arnon Nampa (Mr Nampa) challenged the routine use of physical restraints in Thai court proceedings after he was compelled to appear in leg shackles during his sentencing hearing. The case raises concerns about cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to a fair trial…
Turkish human rights defender Osman Kavala alleges before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that his continued detention – in defiance of two ECtHR judgments finding his detention to be arbitrary and politically motivated and ordering his immediate release – violated his rights under the European Convention on…
Laurent Theron claimed before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that the use of…
Lahoucine El Haski claimed before the European Court of Human Rights…
While travelling as a migrant from Ethiopia to Europe, M.T. (a pseudonym given to him to protect his identity) was trafficked, forcibly disappeared, tortured, held in…
