Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Linda Carty is waiting to die on Texas's death row, her appeals for the most part exhausted. She may face execution in the death chamber at any time. While she dreams of breaking out of her cell, on Wednesday someone broke in to stay the night.
The human rights charity Reprieve has a replica of the cell where Linda has spent the last decade. It contains her entire world: a narrow metal bed, a blanket, a metal sink and a metal toilet. The folk at St Martin-in-the-Fields have been kind enough to let us put the cell there until ...
There are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers around the world. Yet the trial of Omar Khadr is the first instance in modern history of a government prosecuting a former child soldier for war crimes.
At the age of 15, Omar was captured in Afghanistan after a four-hour firefight, and accused of throwing a grenade that killed an American soldier. He is now 23 and has spent a quarter of his life imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, incarcerated with adults and subjected to a range of unlawful interrogation techniques, including stress positions, extreme sleep deprivation, repeated threats of rape and three ...
The AP reported yesterday that the CIA had produced new video-tapes showing the interrogations of Guantánamo Bay prisoner Ramzi bin al-Shibh, whilst he was being held at a secret CIA prison in Morocco in 2002.
The stash of tapes - found under a desk at the CIA's counter-terrorism office - reveal that there is more evidence of the CIA's torture programme than has previously been admitted, and hint at the central role played by Morocco in the secret prison system. This new information comes days after reports that other CIA prisoners, including Abu Zubaydah, were taken for CIA detention in ...
Rt. Hon David Cameron
Prime Minister
10 Downing St
London
SW1A 2AA
August 13, 2010
Dear Prime Minister:
Re: Ahmed Belbacha, British Resident in Guantánamo at risk of forced Refoulement to Algeria
I write today to propose another break from Labour’s unsound policies in the ‘war on terror’: its refusal to repatriate former Bournemouth resident Ahmed Belbacha from Guantánamo Bay.
Ahmed was cleared by the Guantánamo authorities in the Bush years, which says a great deal about who he is. Before his hellish ordeal in US custody, Ahmed was a well-liked member of the Bournemouth community ...
Iran's attempt to quell public outcry over stoning sentence falls spectacularly flat.
Last Wednesday evening a woman appeared on a state-run television channel in Iran, confessing to her involvement in the murder of her husband. Almost completely shrouded in a black chador, she read out a statement in which she described how a relative had come to her home with electrical devices, wire and gloves, and electrocuted her husband while she watched. Her words were dubbed into Farsi, obscuring the sound of her real voice.
Whether or not this woman was really Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, as was claimed, is ...
Kenya's practise of rendition dates from at least 1976, and accelerated in the years following 9/11, when Kenya became the leading regional ally of the ...
An inmate on death row in Alabama has failed to persuade the federal appeals court to allow another appeal to be filed on his behalf after a clerical error beyond his control meant that his papers sat unopened beyond the deadline.
The law firm in New York that was handling inmate Cory Maples’ case returned the copies of his court ruling, unopened. By the time the mistake was realised, his time to appeal had passed. In what can only be described as unbelievably poor case management, the firm explained that the reason the delivery went unnoticed for so long was ...
Death’s Waiting Room, our life size death row cell in St Martin-in-the-fields Church, Trafalgar Square, launches today at 1pm. Watch it live HERE.
We’re really pleased to be able to bring this unique event to all those not able to make it to Trafalgar Square today (as it’s our first time live streaming though, please bear with us through any inevitable technical hitches)! Tune in by following the link above at 1pm today to watch the launch, which will include:
Linda Carty’s Reprieve lawyer Sophie Walker speaking about Linda’s case
The actor Anna Chancellor and ...
We’re absolutely delighted that Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar, has been shortlisted as a ‘Voluntary Sector Achiever of the Year’ by Women in Public Life Awards.
The Awards aim to highlight and reward the achievements of outstanding women role models who pursue leadership roles, make a difference to lives in the work they do and inspire others to do the same.
Since leaving the corporate world and taking a massive 6 figure salary cut to join Reprieve in 2008, Clare’s extraordinary leadership and zeal has helped Reprieve achieve outstanding results and global recognition; Reprieve’s vast increase ...
‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows’, as the fool in The Tempest says. Few would deny that a man on death row and a death penalty supporter fall into the category of strange bedfellows.
But with Kevin Keith facing execution on 15 September, and with copious evidence suggesting his innocence, he is certainly in a miserable situation – and now even self-declared death penalty supporters have pulled together with public defenders to ask Ohio Governor Ted Strickland to spare Kevin’s life.
Kevin, 46, was convicted of murdering three people and wounding three more in February 1994. Prosecutors claim that ...
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