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Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
In future murder trials in North Carolina, judges will be able to prevent prosecutors from pursuing the death penalty if they find a historical precedent of racial bias in the use of the death penalty.
Race – both that of the defendant and the victim – continues to be one of the most significant factors in determining who lives and who dies under the United States criminal justice system. Over half of America’s death row inmates are black or Hispanic. A 2007 study of death sentences in Connecticut conducted by Yale University School of Law found that African-American defendants receive the ...
Marc Callcutt visits two new Reprieve clients in the United Arab Emirates.
Dubai and Sharjah are two emirates that have become one city. In a taxi the only way you can tell you have crossed from one to the other is the 20 dirham charge that is added to your fare. However, in terms of attitude to criminal justice, they appear to be worlds apart. There are, of course, some similarities. On my recent visit to the two Emirates I was attempting to visit two clients – one in Dubai Central Jail and one in Sharjah Central Jail, and despite both ...
On August 12, 1949, in the aftermath of one of the most devastating conflicts the world had ever seen, something extraordinary happened.
Representatives of 64 countries, some of which had been at war with each other just four years earlier, came together in Geneva and signed an international agreement to protect those caught in conflict.
The four Geneva Conventions have become the foundation of today's laws of war, providing protection for wounded members of armed forces in the field and at sea, prisoners of war and civilians.
More countries have signed up to the Conventions than there are member ...
Reprieve yesterday announced litigation against the British Government over the cover-up of the truth about the illegal rendition to Afghanistan of two prisoners captured by the British in Iraq in 2004.
In early 2004, the British arrested two men in Iraq. The British handed them over to the Americans, and were told that they would be rendered to Bagram. This illegal rendition happened, without UK protest, around June 2004.
Since that time, the two men have been held beyond the rule of law and miles from their families in Bagram Air Force Base. They have never been charged with an ...
Many of you may have heard of the case of Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman at some point. These are two British lads who have been in prison in Pakistan for over five years, despite not having been convicted of any crime.
One of the most significant pieces of ‘evidence’ in the case against these guys has been their confessions. Both young men apparently committed cold-blooded murder, but then felt so bad about it that they decided to confess everything to the police, without a lawyer being present, even though murder is a capital offence in Pakistan.
What seems to ...
When Barack Obama was announced as President of the United States in November last year, I must admit, one of my initial thoughts was – ‘Oh well, I guess that means our play is out of business!’
The name of the play is Rendition Monologues and our company, iceandfire theatre, developed and launched it with Reprieve last year. It weaves together four very moving and shocking first-hand accounts of men who have been victims of extraordinary rendition: Binyam Mohamed, Khaled El-Masri, Abdullah Almalki and Marwan Jabour. It is disseminated via our 400-strong network of professional actors, who volunteer their time and ...
The FAC's report calls for historical guidance for intelligence officers to be released into the public domain as soon as possible...
To date, the British government still refuses to publish either the original or the apparently forthcoming revised guidelines for interrogation of prisoners given to British intelligence officers. Their rather tenuous reasoning is that to release such information into the public domain could compromise ongoing criminal proceedings (although, as David Miliband was embarassingly forced to admit earlier this year, he has no intention of releasing the original guidelines even after these proceedings have come to an end).
We're ...
Indignant government rhetoric on torture rings hollow. The evidence tells a very different story.
It was grandstand stuff. "This is not just about legal obligations," wrote David Miliband and Alan Johnson in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday, trumpeting Britain's unceasing efforts to expose and eliminate torture. "It is about our values as a nation, and about what we do, not just what we say." It was also, sad to say, all talk and no trousers.
The foreign and home secretaries indignantly denied that "alleged wrongdoing is covered up". As with the whole article, this is just so much ipse dixit ...
We are all hugely relieved that Samantha Orobator is now back in the UK and I hope that she will be released as soon as possible.
The ordeal that she has been through is truly shocking; her legal rights were violated on every level – from her right to a fair and proper investigation, to withholding her right to confidential access to an independent lawyer, to the trial that was nothing more than a show trial.
Statements made today by the British government that the Lao sentence would be upheld are disturbing. That the British would rubberstamp their approval on the ...
We're here in Nairobi on the eve of the OGOA summit, when the Secretary of State, HiIllary Clinton, is slated to meet various African heads of state. Some of those leaders still have nationals in Guantánamo, including President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the leader of the government of Somalia.
One Reprieve client, Ismail Mohamoud Mohamed, knew Sheikh Sharif very well. Ismail was one of the founding fathers of the 'Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia', the coalition party that won the elections and propelled Sheikhf Sharif Ahmed to the Presidency at the start of this year. With new leaders in ...
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