Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Sunday's International Day of the Disappeared reminded us that the United States have cheerfully utilized a terrorist practice in their 'War on Terror'.
The first action of the UN Human Rights Council when it was established in 2006 was to create an international convention to outlaw the practice of enforced disappearance. It has now been signed by 81 countries, but the signatures of two countries are still conspicuously absent: those of the United Kingdom and the United States.
From Stalin's damnatio memoriae method - in which political figures who had been 'purged' were also erased from photographs, books and ...
It appeared the US president had stopped the use of CIA prisons, but a closer look reveals the canker at his state's heart remains.
In the wake of newly released CIA memos providing further disturbing details on the CIA's overseas secret prisons programme for "terror suspects", the Obama administration is sneaking some far-reaching and dubious changes to US treatment of terror suspects through the back door.
A 2004 report by the CIA inspector-general, John Helgerson, reveals new details of torture of prisoners in CIA custody, where interrogators went far beyond rules of military engagement in their treatment of ...
This great piece on Bagram by Andew at Al Jazeera Doha describes the $50mn redevelopment of the prison.
The new 40-acre site will have space for 1100 inmates; there will be low and high-risk detainee units spread across multiple buildings, with recreation yards, guard towers and specialist medical facilities.Reprieve is now beginning the long fight for the right to represent the prisoners inside.
Two US Supreme Court Justices claim that there is no constitutional right for the innocent not to be executed.
On 17th August, two of the most senior judges in America expressed their view that it was not necessarily unconstitutional to execute a man who has been proved to be innocent. Justice Antonin Scalia, writing a dissenting opinion for himself and Justice Clarence Thomas, claimed there was “considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged “actual innocence” is constitutionally cognizable”.
Happily, however, despite the horrifying stance of Justices Scalia and Thomas, the Supreme Court has now ordered a federal judge in ...
Polly explains what we'll be doing with funding from the UN Fund for Victims of Torture.
I’m Polly Rossdale, and for the last three weeks I’ve been coordinating a new project at Reprieve with Chloe Davies. The aim of this project is to facilitate reintegration, rehabilitation and reparation for former prisoners of Guantánamo Bay in Europe. At the moment we’re just getting started, but once everything is up and running we hope to facilitate comprehensive support and assistance to those who have suffered years of illegal incarceration and abuse.
Reprieve has worked closely with these men ...
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 ...
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