Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Years ago, two men named William Jent and Earnest Miller were sentenced to death in Florida, only to be granted a new trial when evidence emerged, previously suppressed by the prosecution, pointing to their innocence. However, unwilling to admit his mistake, the District Attorney demanded that both should plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of 'time served', and their liberty. As they left the courthouse, one remarked on the irony: "When I said truthfully that I was innocent, they sentenced me to death; today, when I said I committed the crime, they set me free."
Once I thought that ...
The Government’s claim that “nothing currently heard in open court could be heard in secret” under the Justice and Security Bill can only mean one of two things: either those responsible for the Bill are seeking to mislead the public, or they have failed to understand the full implications of the legislation.
The Bill would give ministers the power to push civil cases into secret proceedings simply by claiming ‘national security.’ Judges would be stripped of their current powers to weigh competing concerns of the need for justice and the need for security when deciding what should be secret ...
In Pakistan there are 800,000 people playing Russian Roulette. They do it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's not a voluntary game. Someone else holding the gun, refusing to tell how many projectiles there are in the chamber, or even who the weapon is currently aimed at.
According to a report published today by Stanford University and New York University, CIA drones are inflicting this terror on the communities of Waziristan, in North-West Pakistan. The report, originally commissioned by Reprieve, warns that the United States' drone campaign is terrorizing the men, women and children who ...
Reprieve’s chair Ken Macdonald QC was on the front page of The Times(£) earlier this week challenging the UK government to come clean about their role in the US’ illegal and devastating drone strikes in Pakistan.
CIA drone strikes have killed over 3000 people in Pakistan alone, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, including hundreds of children.
Reprieve is on the ground in Pakistan investigating these drone attacks and their effects, and bringing legal action here in the UK on behalf of Noor Khan whose father was killed in 2011 by a drone strike. Reprieve is asking the ...
I am writing from America, where the latest figures are now in on student debt. Once again, we can see the future for the UK - indeed I have lived that future for many years - and it's a disaster.
The front page headline in the New York Times is grim: Debt Collectors Cashing in on Student Loan Roundup (NYT, A1, Sunday Sept. 9, 2012). Students were protesting, wearing T-shirts advertising their levels of debt: $20,000, $75,000 and $90,000. Debt collectors were gloating. “I couldn’t believe the accumulated wealth they represented – for our industry,” wrote one, in ...
Yesterday, the D.C. District Court issued a ruling that will prevent the U.S. government from further eroding the rights of Guantánamo detainees.
In a strongly worded judgment, Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth upbraided the Obama Administration for the “illegitimate exercise of Executive power” in its attack on the most basic of detainee rights: access to a lawyer.
Earlier this year the Obama Administration had attempted to argue that the court order protecting attorney-client relations in Guantánamo Bay expired after the completion of judicial proceedings (ie. after a detainee failed to make a successful habeas corpus claim ...
Apple has for the third time this month rejected an iPhone app which alerts the user to a drone attack and to the number of people killed. Drones+ enables those concerned about the CIA’s illegal, unregulated use of these remote-controlled weapons to track the strikes to their handset.
This is no doubt an uncomfortable prospect for the US authorities, whose use of drones extends to Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, where no war has been declared. Such drone strikes have killed more than 3,300 people in Pakistan alone since 2004, according to reports by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism ...
After 27 years without a single execution in The Gambia President Yahya Jammeh brought that time to an unhappy end with the execution of seven Gambian citizens and 2 Senegalese citizens in a firing range. The executions were carried out on Eid al-Fitr, a day of celebration, love and peace in the Muslim faith.
The death penalty was abolished in Gambia by the former President Dawda Jawara but was then reinstated by the current President, Yahya Jammeh. In a broadcast President Jammeh made on Sunday 26th August he said that he would execute the other 38 convicts waiting on ...
Justin Wolfe, having gone through an ordeal eerily similar to that of Ivan Teleguz, has finally had his conviction and death sentence overturned.
After spending years hiding evidence of Mr Wolfe’s innocence in order to kill him, and once ordered to produce it, the Commonwealth of Virginia wasted yet more time arguing that the defence still shouldn’t be allowed to use it to save his life. When challenged by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Commonwealth offered this bizarre explanation of why it had done so, as can be seen in the judgment (Wolfe v. Clarke ...
The case filed on behalf of "high value detainee" Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in the European Court of Human Rights this month is the first attempt by the rule of law to dispel the shadows surrounding Romania's secret CIA prison.
Over the last several years, evidence of Romania's role in the CIA's rendition and secret prison programme has been building inexorably. Investigations into "black sites" in Poland and Lithuania have shown how Romania was linked to these countries, as well as to Afghanistan and Morocco, by planes associated with the CIA programme. Faced with similar bodies of evidence ...
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