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.  

A.B. v Turkey

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)

A.B. is a Turkish-British national who was arrested, detained and tortured in Turkey in 2003, over allegations he was assisting the PKK. He fled the country later that year and sought asylum in the UK.   A.B.’S STORY  A.B. is a dual Turkish-British national of Kurdish…

A v Azerbaijan & 24 other applications

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)

REDRESS, along with two other organisations, has participated in the submission of a third-party intervention in a case of alleged unlawful and arbitrary arrest and detention of a number of members of the Azerbaijani LGBTI community and their subsequent ill-treatment and forced medical examination. BACKGROUND In mid-September 2017, the Azerbaijani…