Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
It may be the most mean-spirited thing that David Cameron has yet said since he assumed the mantle of Prime Minister: “It makes me physically ill even to contemplate having to give the vote to anyone who is in prison.” It makes me physically ill to hear an elected official say such a thing.
On which tablet that Moses carried down from Mount Sinai does it say that prisoners should lose the right to vote? The European Court ruling condemning our practice does not pull its conclusion out of thin air: countries across Europe and around the world allow prisoners ...
The US Department of Justice is currently reviewing a request from thirteen states looking for the government’s help in obtaining supplies of sodium thiopental.
The only US manufacturer, Hospira, has now ceased all production of the drug, and its export from Britain for execution purposes has been banned since last November. Executing states are therefore increasingly desperate to get their hands on enough sodium thiopental to carry out the executions they have planned over the next few months.
Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and Wyoming have all put their names to a ...
Afshaan and Owen felt like minor celebrities on Tuesday of last week –
a member of the Vodafone Media Team came to our office in the Jewellery
Quarter with a camera over his shoulder and notepad in hand to take our
details for the local press.
Both ourselves and Nawaz recently learnt that our individual grant applications to Vodafone’s World of Difference programme were successful and we are all chuffed to bits that we are amongst the 500 lucky people - of 22,000 applicants - to receive grants to work for Reprieve full time during March and April. Not only will ...
Reprieve needs your help to show just how widespread police torture is in Pakistan. We are now gathering personal accounts to create a body of evidence that the Pakistani authorities will not be able to ignore. If you know someone who has been tortured or abused by the Pakistan police, please contact us.
Reprieve’s Pakistani Police Torture Project has support from numerous community leaders, religious leaders and public figures, notably Moazzam Begg, the Association of British Muslims and The British Pakistani Christian Association. The PPTP would like to thank these individuals and organisations for their continued support.
“After having ...
Yesterday, the United States Southern Command issued a press release stating briefly that Awal Gul had died in Guantánamo Bay - the seventh man to do so since the prison opened.
Gul was a 48-year-old Afghani who had arrived at Guantánamo in October 2002. At the time of his death, he had been in American custody for over nine years without trial. The release states that Gul had been exercising on an elliptical machine [a cross-trainer] and subsequently collapsed in the shower.
The Southern Command’s public affairs office is clearly keen to emphasize the great lengths to which Gul’s ...
At the end of 2010, it was reported that Cuba’s Supreme Court had lifted the death sentence on the country's only remaining death row prisoner - the Cuban-American Humberto Eladio Real.
This decision came hot on the heels of two other rulings, in which the Supreme Court commuted the death sentences of Ernesto Cruz Leon and Otto Rodriguez to imprisonment. Individually these are small victories, but might they herald a greater one?
Elizardo Sanchez (head of the independent Havana-based Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation) reminds us that despite the recent rulings, capital punishment has not been ...
Former prosecutor Lieutenant Governor Sheila Simon has publicly written to Governor Quinn urging him to sign into law the bill for the abolition of the death penalty in Illinois that recently passed the General Assembly.
After receiving the approval of first the state House, and then the state Senate on 11th January, the death penalty abolition bill has now been sent to Governor Pat Quinn for his signature. However, he has 60 days in which to decide whether or not to sign it into law, and thus far has been sitting on the fence. Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon wrote to ...
Zahra Bahrami was hanged in Iran early on Saturday morning, following her involvement in the Ashura protests against the outcome of the 2009 presidential election.
Ms Bahrani, an Iranian-born Dutch citizen who was 46 at the time of her execution, had joined a protest against the government while visiting relatives in the Islamic republic. She was initially charged by the Prosecutor’s Office for Moharebeh (‘war against God’) and ‘security crimes’, including belonging to a monarchist group, establishing an anti-government organisation and spreading anti-Iranian propaganda.
A subsequent charge of cocaine and opium-smuggling sealed her fate, and earlier this month a ...
Last Thursday the Massachusetts Supreme Court made a unanimous decision in the case of Commonwealth v Amaury Gautreaux, which finally recognised the need for a remedy in cases where foreign nationals are convicted without having the opportunity to notify and access their Consulates.
Simply put, foreign nationals convicted of a crime without being able to notify or have access to their Consulate may use that as a basis to challenge the soundness of their conviction, if there’s a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice because of that breach.
The United States ratified the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations ...
While I cringe to point readers to a blog with such a howler for a title, there’s a colloquy going on at the Lawfare blog that is worth checking out.
Ben Wittes is a Brookings fellow who positions himself as a centrist. A year on from the deadline to close Guantánamo, Mr Wittes issued a provocative thesis: Obama should give up and just embrace the prison.
Instead of fecklessly continuing to argue for the closure of Guantanamo, Obama should announce—maybe in his State of the Union address—that since Congress has made closure impossible, he is committing himself ...
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