1. US government uses state secrecy to block lawsuit for CIA rendition and torture victims
  2. Listen to Tineke Harris talking about Death's Waiting Room
  3. Bianca Jagger in Death's Waiting Room
  4. The post-9/11 life of an American charged with murder
  5. Watch a short film of the launch of Death's Waiting Room
  6. Engaging Europe in the US death penalty fight: Can we help on your capital case?

US government uses state secrecy to block lawsuit for CIA rendition and torture victims

on Sept. 9, 2010

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled by a 6-5 majority that ex-prisoners cannot sue Jeppesen Dataplan, a Boeing subsidiary that arranged extraordinary rendition flights for the CIA, after the Obama administration invoked ‘state secrets’ privilege.

The narrow majority -- and the fact that the Court ordered the US government to pay the plaintiffs’ costs -- speaks volumes ...

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Listen to Tineke Harris talking about Death's Waiting Room

on Sept. 8, 2010

Tineke Harris by Emmanuelle Purdon

Reprieve's deputy death penalty Director Tineke Harris talks about Linda Carty's life-size death row prison cell in Trafalgar Square, and about Reprieve's work representing death row prisoners around the world.

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Bianca Jagger in Death's Waiting Room

on Sept. 7, 2010

Bianca Jagger in the cell

Bianca Jagger appeals to Prime Minister David Cameron to help prevent the execution of British grandmother Linda Carty.

Bianca Jagger, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, Founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, will appeal to Prime Minister David Cameron, urging him to intercede on behalf of British grandmother Linda Carty ...

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The post-9/11 life of an American charged with murder

on Sept. 5, 2010

2010_07_28 Sharif Mobley family pic from Nzinga

by Peter Finn, Washington Post, 2010/09/05

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Watch a short film of the launch of Death's Waiting Room

on Aug. 31, 2010

Includes footage of Anna Chancellor reading Linda's speech.

Includes footage of Anna Chancellor reading Linda's speech.

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Engaging Europe in the US death penalty fight: Can we help on your capital case?

on June 8, 2010

Death row - cell

Do your clients have ties to foreign countries? Could they have a claim to foreign nationality? If so, Reprieve can help…

In September 2009 Reprieve launched a three-year project funded by the European Commission – the EC Project. The Project works alongside capital defense lawyers to meet their obligations under the ABA Guidelines, to: ‘make appropriate efforts to determine whether any ...

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