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.
On 10 July 2024, the Economic Community of West African States Court of Justice (ECOWAS Court) delivered a landmark judgment finding Nigeria responsible for serious human rights violations arising from the October 2020 Lekki Toll Gate massacre. While the decision marked an important step towards justice, the implementation of reparations and accountability has been slow and…
أيوب الغن هو ناشط من الصحراء الغربية، تعرّض للدهس من قبل الشرطة خلال مظاهرة سلمية في مدينة العيون عام 2018. …
اقرأ باللغة العربية Ayoub El-Ghan is an activist from Western Sahara, who was run over by the police in a peaceful protest in Laayoune city in 2018. …
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…
