REDRESS has been made aware of correspondences being circulated via e-mail, from Internet web sites, text messages and via regular mail or facsimile, falsely stating that they are issued by, or in association with REDRESS. These scams, which may seek to obtain money and/or in many cases personal details from… Read More
REDRESS and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) have issued the following briefing paper to coincide with the ongoing session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which is taking place from the 24th of April to the 14th of May in Egypt. The… Read More
REDRESS and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) have issued this briefing which identifies priority areas for reform on torture in Sudan following the recent removal of Omar al-Bashir as President. It focuses on reparations for victims of torture, ensuring individual accountability and preventing torture in the future. Read More
The ICC has found in an important decision in the Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi case that amnesties and pardons for serious acts constituting crimes against humanity are incompatible with international law, and that they deny the rights of victims. This decision was issued in the context… Read More
REDRESS and Fair Trials have filed a third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Oleg Sentsov v Russia. Sentsov alleged he was tortured and then convicted on the basis of evidence obtained from a witness who had also been ill-treated. Oleg Sentsov is a… Read More
Oleg Gennadyevich Sentsov is a Ukrainian filmmaker who is serving a twenty-year prison sentence in Russian correctional facilities. He alleges that his conviction was based on evidence obtained by torture. OLEG’S STORY Born in 1976, Ukrainian national Oleg Sentsov is a filmmaker and writer from Crimea. He actively opposed the… Read More
On the three-year anniversary of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s arrest in Iran, REDRESS calls once more on the Government of Iran to bring an end to her unlawful detention, before her health deteriorates further. Nazanin was returning from a holiday visiting her family in Iran with her then one-year-old daughter, Gabriella, on… Read More
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