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Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
The victim of a post-9/11 ‘hate crime’ will today ask a federal court to order the Governor of Texas to comply with the much-lauded Texas Victims’ Bill of Rights, hours before his attacker is due to die.
Shooting survivor Rais Bhuiyan is today suing Governor Rick Perry for multiple violations of his rights during the 2002 trial of his attacker Mark Stroman. The ground-breaking lawsuit will be heard by a federal court in Austin at 10am local time, with Stroman's execution scheduled to take place across the state in Huntsville later this evening.
Among other claims, Mr. Bhuiyan ...
Last week saw one of those little-noticed coincidences in British politics: as one inquiry into a very public scandal came struggling into the world, the slow death of another began.
The chances are you'll have heard about David Cameron's announcement of an inquiry into phone hacking at the News of the World. But amid the fury around the paper's unbelievable callousness, the first stages in the quiet burial of the Gibson Inquiry - concerned with the role of our country's security services in the torture, rendition and illegal imprisonment of those swept up by the 'War on ...
The top news in the last couple of weeks has been that Lundbeck, the manufacturer of Nembutal (the drug which many states in the US now use for executions), has introduced strict controls to prevent unauthorised sales of the drug for use in executions. Reprieve had been pressuring the company to make such a move, which sends a message that European companies will not tolerate use of their products to kill prisoners.
Texas once again showed its disregard for the US’s international obligations by executing Humberto Leal, over the protests of the Obama administration and international community. Leal had ...
A man who survived being shot in the face in 2001 is to sue Texas Governor Rick Perry and other officials is today demanding respect for his rights as a victim of violent crime. Rais Bhuiyan is expected to file the suit at Travis County Courthouse, Austin, TX, at 10 a.m. local time.
Mr Bhuiyan was shot by Mark Stroman in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Fuelled by his addiction to methamphetamine, which he used to medicate his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Mr Stroman was close to the edge when he caught his girlfriend having an affair. Then ...
The Guardian reports today on a Supreme Court judgement which has gone against MI5's attempts to cover up evidence that Guantánamo detainees had been tortured.
MI5's lawyers had been attempting to overturn an earlier ruling, which had prevented them from suppressing claims of abuse at Guantánamo and other overseas prisons used in the 'War on Terror'.
Reprieve's Director, Clive Stafford Smith described this legal fight-back as 'wonderful', and expressed hope that the UK's governing parties stick to the principles which they voiced in opposition:
“The first casualty in the 'War on Terror' certainly was ...
A recently published study on the cost of capital cases in California, conducted over three years by US 9th Circuit Judge Arthur L. Alarcon and Loyola Law School professor Paula M. Mitchell, reveals that taxpayers have spent roughly $4 billion to fund the death penalty since reinstating it in 1978.
The 714 prisoners currently on death row cost the taxpayer $184 million more per year than those sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A death penalty prosecution costs up to 20 times as much as a life-without-parole case.
The least expensive death penalty trial costs ...
US drones strikes have caused devastation to innumerable families in the tribal areas of Pakistan by targeting innocents and causing destruction.
Now it seems drones are harming even more individuals than those directly involved in drone strikes. The chemicals used to fire off the drones have led to high numbers in cases of skin diseases, blood cancer and thalassaemia (a group of genetic blood disorders) among the local population.
Dr Anwar Bhittani has noted children exhibiting mental problems because of thaleassaemia and a growing number of people experiencing depression. He warns that health problems and “genetic defects” could become epidemic ...
The ECtHR has today decided that an ECHR jurisdictional link existed between the United Kingdom and individuals killed in the course of security operations carried out by British soldiers during the period May 2003 to June 2004.
This means the European Convention on Human Rights can, in the right circumstances, be extended to whole classes of individuals caught up by a European country exercising public powers’ on the territory of another State.
The law on this has existed for a while, but this judgment confirms that the Court is prepared to actually apply it in circumstances like this; it is ...
Hot on the heels of news that the US is providing Uganda and Burundi with Raven surveillance drones to support their operations in Somalia, the Washington Post reported yesterday that the first drone strike in Somalia allegedly injured two al-Shabab militants last week. As so often with drone reporting, no names were furnished.
Somalia is not the only place where the US appears to be expanding the drone wars. Since targeting Anwar al-Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen last month, the US has reportedly carried out a further thirteen drone strikes just as reports are emerging that a new ...
Reprieve's campaign to raise support for British grandmother Linda Carty continued last week when we were invited to Lush's first festival in the beautiful surroundings of Holton Lee, Dorset.
Lush has long been an ardent campaigner for justice throughout the world, and has previously called for the rule of law for those suffering in Guantanamo Bay by helping us promote the Fair Trial My Arse campaign throughout their shops in the UK.
Yesterday was all about informing the public on the plight of Linda Carty by using the famous 'mock cell' -- a replica of a typical cell on ...
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