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REDRESS has urged Greece to bring its definition of torture into conformity with international law, at the UN Committee Against Torture’s review of Greece’s seventh periodic report on 24 and 25 July 2019. Ahead of the session REDRESS participated in a briefing with other NGOs and the members of the… Read More

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… Read More

Dr. Medani and Mr. Eissa were human rights defenders in Sudan who were arrested in December 2014. They were arbitrarily detained for over four months, ill-treated, charged with unsubstantiated offences that carried a punishment of the death penalty and subject to an unfair trial. They were released after charges were… Read More

REDRESS welcomes today’s decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber on reparations to victims of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Lubanga), settling the question of Lubanga’s liability for US$10 million for reparations for victims in the case. Lubanga, former leader of the Union des PatriotesCongolais/Forces Patriotiques pour la Libération du… Read More

Eight UN human rights experts have expressed their serious concern about Iran’s denial of much needed medical treatments to detainees, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. They say it appears to be a “consistent pattern”, referencing the cases of Arash Sadeghi, Ahmadreza Djalali, Kamran Ghaderi, Narges Mohammadi and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, some of whom… Read More

For more than three years Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been arbitrarily detained in Iran, separated from her now five-year-old daughter Gabriella and her husband Richard, who lives in London. Nazanin and Richard recently underwent a two-week hunger strike to call once again for her release. More needs to be done to… Read More

REDRESS is an international human rights organisation based in London and The Hague that represents victims of torture to obtain justice and reparation. We bring legal cases on behalf of individual victims of torture, and advocate for better laws to provide effective reparations. Our cases respond to torture as an… Read More

Purna Maya (name changed to protect her privacy) is a Nepalese woman who was raped by four soldiers in 2004 during Nepal’s internal armed conflict. She suffered grave physical injuries as well as severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. PURNA MAYA’S STORY Purna Maya ran a tea shop.  Over a… Read More