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.
Two survivors of torture, whose identities are withheld for their protection, filed a complaint against Italy to the European Court of Human Rights for its failure to execute an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for one of their torturers, Osama Elmasry Njeem (Mr.
Ukrainian national Igor Sirenko (Mr Sirenko) was assaulted by police during a violent dispersal of peaceful protesters and unlawfully detained following demonstrations in Kyiv in November 2013. CASE BACKGROUND On 30 November 2013, Mr Sirenko was attending a peaceful, round-the-clock vigil in Kyiv. At approximately 4 a.m., officers surrounded and assaulted the protestors, including Mr Sirenko.
Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (Ali Kushayb), a leader of the former Janjaweed militia, was convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes carried out in Darfur, Sudan, committed between August 2003 and April 2004. Following his conviction, the ICC is expected…
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. …