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Join REDRESS and Good Law Project at 6pm on Wednesday 9 March for an online discussion on the current fragile state of UK citizenship.

Human rights groups welcomed the arrest by British police of a Sri Lankan suspect in the murder of BBC journalist Nimalarajan Mylvaganam in Jaffna. The Metropolitan Police War Crimes team announced [1] the arrest of a 48-year old man, whom they didn’t name, after conducting what they called… Read More

In this bulletin, we feature some positive updates on our areas of work. This includes our initiatives in our Reparation programme, such as Magnitsky Sanctions project, through which we seek to impose a financial cost on the perpetrators of torture with travel bans and… Read More

In this submission, REDRESS and eight other civil society organisations request States to include provisions on asset recovery in a new multilateral treaty that is being drafted. Read More

Read the NGO submission An NGO coalition has called on States to include provisions on asset recovery in a new multilateral treaty that is being drafted and which seeks to improve international cooperation in the domestic prosecution of serious international crimes. Doing so would enhance opportunities… Read More

We supported the process to update the UN guidance on the investigation of torture, a key element of reparation. The updated version of the Istanbul Protocol was published on 29 June 2022. The Istanbul Protocol, originally produced in 1999, is a series of… Read More

Mustafa Avcioglu 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.  … Read More

A coalition of 10 Ugandan and international organisations, has requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) to put Ugandan victims at the centre of the ongoing reparations proceedings in the case of Dominic Ongwen by way of a third-party intervention (also called “amicus”). Last year, the ICC found Dominic… Read More