The film – available in English and Kinyarwanda – includes exclusive images inside the court. REDRESS’ work to promote justice and the legal rights of victims of torture is highlighted in the new documentary film of award-winning producer and journalist Fiona Lloyd-Davies. The Appeal of Joseph M focuses on the Rwandan… Read More
Today the public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, a Basra hotel worker who died of injuries he sustained in British custody in Iraq in 2003, issued its concluding report. The report confirms that British soldiers inflicted “violent and cowardly” assaults on Iraqi civilians, and that Mousa died after suffering “gratuitous violence”. Read More
Report A draconian legislation like the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 and the concept of democracy do not go together. While democracy nurtures values of justice, equality and fraternity, laws like the AFSPA are synonymous with injustice, discrimination and hatred. A report that analyses the legislation’s complete… Read More
Ten human rights organisations, along with former detainees and others who say they were tortured, withdrew today from the British Government’s Detainee Inquiry because it lacks “the credibility or transparency” to fully investigate allegations of torture. In a joint letter to the solicitor for the Inquiry, the groups – including REDRESS,… Read More
Any investigation into the 128 cases of alleged abuse of civilians by British soldiers in Iraq must not only be independent but must be seen to be independent, as any perceived lack of independence is likely to undermine the work and conclusions of the investigating body. REDRESS has intervened in… Read More
Registry officials at the ICC have warned judges that they can’t process the paperwork to enable victims to take part in crucial Court hearings, because they simply have too few staff. Earlier this month (4th July), Trial Chamber I ruled that hundreds of pending applications from victims wanting to participate in the… Read More
قراءة باللغة العربية The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights should call on Sudan to cease human rights abuses in Southern Kordofan, Human Rights Watch, Interights, REDRESS, and the Sudan Democracy First Group said today. On July 2, 2011, the four human rights organizations petitioned the… Read More
A Dutch appeals court today sentenced Joseph Mpambara to life imprisonment on war crimes charges committed during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutu were killed. The Court of Appeals found that Mpambara led a large-scale attack on an Adventist compound in which great numbers of Tutsi civilians, among… Read More