Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
By David Morrissey
Two weeks ago I rushed to a recording studio for a last minute job: to voice the words of a young French man named Nabil Hadjarab.
Nabil was just 22 years old when he was sold for a bounty to US forces and taken to Guantanamo Bay. He has been held there ever since without charge or trial. The US has since admitted that he was mistakenly arrested.
In 2007 Nabil was cleared for release. Then, in 2009, Barack Obama became President and promised to close GuantanamoBay. Nabil - like all the detainees - thought that ...
The UK Government has announced that it is to resume the transfer of detainees to Afghan prisons - a practice they had previously been forced to stop due to clear evidence that the detainees were being tortured following their transfer. The Government attempted to lift this ban in 2012 but had to back down after a court battle. The MoD has now said that it is "satisfied it is safe" to resume transfers, but it is not clear on what grounds. Here's the reaction of Reprieve Legal Director, Kat Craig, to the news:
“The government may well assert that it ...
Nestle’s Boost Plus comes in three tempting flavours: “Rich Chocolate, Very Vanilla and Creamy Strawberry.” Unfortunately the mouth-watering delights of the high-calorie nutritional supplement are lost on the 39 hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay detainees who have it pumped directly into their stomach against their will via a tube in their nose.
Reprieve has identified a number of products that are being used by Guantanamo Bay medical staff to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners. Along with Nestlé’s Boost Plus supplement, another dietary supplement called Ensure and Morton’s Salt Substitute have been used in the brutal force-feeding of detainees ...
By Kat Craig
Last week a UN body effectively issued David Cameron his human rights MOT report card covered in red scribbles. The question is, will the government do the slightest thing about it?
The report into the UK was published by the Committee Against Torture (“CAT”). It assessed the UK’s failure to hold to account those responsible for human rights abuses in the so-called war on terror – and the outcome wasn’t pretty. Even the UN’s trademark civility couldn’t mask what was ultimately a scathing critique of both the previous and current government. In no less ...
On Friday night Channel 4 showed an excellent and very moving documentary about Yemeni teenagers on death row (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/episode-guide/series-2013/episode-7).
Reprieve works extensively in Yemen – primarily around the US’ covert drones programme, which has killed thousands of civilians and continues to do so as the CIA pummel the country with hellfire missiles as the next phase of the so-called ‘war on terror’. There is further information about our drones work in Yemen available on our website (http://www.reprieve.org.uk/investigations/drones/) where you can support the work we do there.
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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 ...
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