Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Of all the rights that we might expect our government to recognise, freedom from torture is top of the list.
The promotion of human rights by Lush is admirable, an example that should be followed by any ethical corporation. Enter “The Oracle” of Reading...
The problem with handing down sentences of death.
Torture, the incumbents and the 2008 presidential election.
Clive Stafford Smith has devoted decades to saving prisoners from the death penalty. But this week he was forced to take a life - that of his beloved dog. He describes the pain of their last hours together.
According to legend, Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, is the oldest inhabited city on earth, established by one of the sons of Noah. Arriving at the airport, the walk down the steps from a smart Emirates jumbo jet takes me fifty years into the past, to an airport from the film Casablanca...
The guards tried to celebrate in Guantánamo Bay, though it was not a happy place for them to spend Christmas, any more than the prisoners.
I was visiting the base recently and noticed a sign that pronounced the Task Force “value of the week”: it was Compassion. And then came the case of the contraband underpants...
The British government’s recent announcement that it will accept five U.K. residents back home, thereby moving Guantánamo closer to closure, was welcome news.
The rule of law - The first casualty in the war for democracy.
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