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Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve and The Rendition Project have collaborated on an interactive map and database illustrating the extent of the US Government's global network of secret prisons and the private companies which supported it. Drawing on thousands of records from freedom of information requests, NGO reports, news accounts, first-person testimony and international investigations, the database provides the most authoritative picture to date of the logistics network which made the US secret detention programme possible.
The interactive map allows users to zoom in on individual countries and flight routes and cross-reference them with detailed analyses of dozens of known and possible prisoner ...
By Joel Sharples
BT’s slogan used to be “it’s good to talk”, but when it comes to contracts with the US military “it’s best to keep your mouth shut” might be more appropriate.
Earlier this year Reprieve obtained evidence that BT had been awarded a contract worth over $23 million by the US Defense Information Systems Agency to provide communications infrastructure connecting US-run RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire with the secretive Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti.
BT were unwilling to comment on the nature of the contract, no doubt due to the likelihood that the equipment and support they ...
Students from Old Field School in Bath respond to Death Penalty film
Kim Reed, an English teacher at the Old Field School in Bath, recently contacted Reprieve on behalf of her GCSE students after they had watched Paul Hamman’s Fourteen Days in May (1987). Hamman’s film is a hard-hitting documentary which recounts the final days of Edward Earl Johnson before he was executed in a Mississippi gas chamber on May 20 1987.
Johnson’s innocence has since been widely accepted – indeed, it was accepted by many prison officials at the time. The documentary argues against the death penalty ...
Op-ed: Yemen and the Peshawar High Court's condemnation of drones
Baraa Shiban
Reprieve's Yemen Project Coordinator
The US’ covert and illegal drone war in Pakistan suffered a heavy blow today when a Pakistani High Court called the strikes illegal and a violation of human rights. The Court also said the strikes breach Pakistan’s sovereignty and encouraged the Pakistani government and security forces to stop future strikes. The question all Yemenis should be asking is “why is this not the case in Yemen?”. Surely, the death of a Yemeni is no less tragic or illegal than that of ...
By Johnny Gallagher
U.S. Strikes "kerosene for insurgency": Reprieve fellow gives testimony to Congressional hearing on Drones
Reprieve fellow and Yemeni coordinator, Baraa Shiban, gave video testimony this week to a Congressional hearing on drone strikes on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.
Speaking from Yemen, where there has been a steep rise in the number of drone strikes over the last year, and where a recent strike has seen at least 12 further innocent civilians killed, Baraa was despairing of the impact on popular feeling of what no-one in Yemen or the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan ...
Two separate lightning quick reactions to President Obama's news conference on Tuesday characterized him as a "bystander" to his own presidency. Both criticized the President for talking about his stalled legislative agenda in passive terms, as if they were things that just "happened," rather than failures his own inaction had helped to bring about. To my mind, the indictment is particularly apt in Obama's odd characterization of the debacle that is Guantanamo Bay.
The President rightly noted that the prison camp is "expensive...inefficient...and hurts [the U.S.] in terms of our international standing." He stated categorically ...
By Joel Sharples
On 15 May Reprieve will be hosting a talk with Jeremy Scahill, American investigative journalist and author of the recently published Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.
The book, which has received praise from military insiders as well as the most trenchant critics of American foreign policy, is the culmination of Scahill’s tireless and uncompromising work documenting the ugly new mutations of the ‘War on Terror’.
Since coming to power Barack Obama has greatly expanded the operations of covert commando units such as the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and the CIA’s Special Activities ...
by Alexis Comninos
Nabil, à Guantanamo depuis 11 ans, sans charges ni procès demande à la France de l’accueillir. Alors qu’il a rejoint la grève de la faim et que son état de santé inquiète, ses avocats continuent de mener une bataille juridique pour rendre possible son retour en France. D’après les représentants légaux de détenus à Guantanamo, ils ne seraient plus que quelques uns à accepter de s’alimenter, la grande majorité ayant rejoint la grève de la faim. L’armée américaine elle avance des chiffres bien moindres mais reconnait ...
The Guantanamo Bay hunger strike is now well into its 10th week. Many had forgotten the plight, or even the existence, of those still held at the US detention centre. But the abuse of these men has continued even as the world’s attention has waned. Hunger striking is more than just a cry for help. First hand accounts of the extreme toll this strike has taken on the physical and mental well-being of the protesters highlights just how desperate the situation is. The decision to hunger strike is not one that is taken lightly.
Hunger strikes have been ...
No human rights convention in history has had as much support and as many ratifications as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This is because we have decided collectively and globally that children matter and deserve protection.
But the ugly question which arises from state practice is whether all children matter, whether some children might matter rather more than other children, and whether in fact some children may not matter at all.
The US, through its drone programme in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, seems to be affirming that it holds the latter view.
At least 204 child ...
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