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Reprieve’s chair Ken Macdonald QC was on the front page of The Times(£) earlier this week challenging the UK government to come clean about their role in the US’ illegal and devastating drone strikes in Pakistan.
CIA drone strikes have killed over 3000 people in Pakistan alone, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, including hundreds of children.
Reprieve is on the ground in Pakistan investigating these drone attacks and their effects, and bringing legal action here in the UK on behalf of Noor Khan whose father was killed in 2011 by a drone strike. Reprieve is asking the ...
I am writing from America, where the latest figures are now in on student debt. Once again, we can see the future for the UK - indeed I have lived that future for many years - and it's a disaster.
The front page headline in the New York Times is grim: Debt Collectors Cashing in on Student Loan Roundup (NYT, A1, Sunday Sept. 9, 2012). Students were protesting, wearing T-shirts advertising their levels of debt: $20,000, $75,000 and $90,000. Debt collectors were gloating. “I couldn’t believe the accumulated wealth they represented – for our industry,” wrote one, in ...
Yesterday, the D.C. District Court issued a ruling that will prevent the U.S. government from further eroding the rights of Guantánamo detainees.
In a strongly worded judgment, Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth upbraided the Obama Administration for the “illegitimate exercise of Executive power” in its attack on the most basic of detainee rights: access to a lawyer.
Earlier this year the Obama Administration had attempted to argue that the court order protecting attorney-client relations in Guantánamo Bay expired after the completion of judicial proceedings (ie. after a detainee failed to make a successful habeas corpus claim ...
Apple has for the third time this month rejected an iPhone app which alerts the user to a drone attack and to the number of people killed. Drones+ enables those concerned about the CIA’s illegal, unregulated use of these remote-controlled weapons to track the strikes to their handset.
This is no doubt an uncomfortable prospect for the US authorities, whose use of drones extends to Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, where no war has been declared. Such drone strikes have killed more than 3,300 people in Pakistan alone since 2004, according to reports by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism ...
After 27 years without a single execution in The Gambia President Yahya Jammeh brought that time to an unhappy end with the execution of seven Gambian citizens and 2 Senegalese citizens in a firing range. The executions were carried out on Eid al-Fitr, a day of celebration, love and peace in the Muslim faith.
The death penalty was abolished in Gambia by the former President Dawda Jawara but was then reinstated by the current President, Yahya Jammeh. In a broadcast President Jammeh made on Sunday 26th August he said that he would execute the other 38 convicts waiting on ...
Justin Wolfe, having gone through an ordeal eerily similar to that of Ivan Teleguz, has finally had his conviction and death sentence overturned.
After spending years hiding evidence of Mr Wolfe’s innocence in order to kill him, and once ordered to produce it, the Commonwealth of Virginia wasted yet more time arguing that the defence still shouldn’t be allowed to use it to save his life. When challenged by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Commonwealth offered this bizarre explanation of why it had done so, as can be seen in the judgment (Wolfe v. Clarke ...
The case filed on behalf of "high value detainee" Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in the European Court of Human Rights this month is the first attempt by the rule of law to dispel the shadows surrounding Romania's secret CIA prison.
Over the last several years, evidence of Romania's role in the CIA's rendition and secret prison programme has been building inexorably. Investigations into "black sites" in Poland and Lithuania have shown how Romania was linked to these countries, as well as to Afghanistan and Morocco, by planes associated with the CIA programme. Faced with similar bodies of evidence ...
As the frenzy of Olympics 2012 begins to ebb, this year’s champions will, no doubt, be returning to rapturous receptions in their home countries the world over. There is perhaps one athlete in particular whose double victory will be well-received not only at home but some thousands of miles away as well in Guantánamo Bay.
A former lifeguard and avid swimmer, Tunisian detainee Hisham Sliti, would – were he to hear the news of Oussama Mellouli’s gold and bronze medal successes in the 10km open water marathon and indoor 1500m freestyle – most probably have a bittersweet appreciation of ...
Nabil Hadjarab has now been cleared for release for almost half of the ten years he has spent imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay. For most of us this is a difficult fact to grapple with. If the Bush hardliners thought that it was ok to let Nabil go way back in 2007, why is he still there?
The answer, as is usually the case when it comes to Guantánamo, has nothing to do with the law. There have never been any charges laid against Nabil. And he is not alone. More than half of the 168 men still detained ...
Are you a higher-rate tax payer considering making a donation to Reprieve? Now is the time to dig deep and avoid the reduced reclaim rate. Reprieve relies on you, our supporters, to aid our delivery of justice to prisoners across the globe.
Although the marginal income tax rate you have to pay may be dropping from 50% to 45% of your income in the next financial year, as a donor the tax amount you can reclaim on charitable giving will equally diminish by 6.25 percentage points. So whilst in the 2012-13 tax year, £37.50 will be rebated for ...
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