Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Marc Callcutt thanks members of the public for supporting Reprieve's campaign for Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman.
After nearly five years in prison without trial and having suffered brutal torture at the hands of the police, Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman are currently facing execution in Pakistan.
Marc Callcutt meets Vakaas Hussain, who thanks supporters for all that they have done to help his brother.
After nearly five years in prison without trial and having suffered brutal torture at the hands of the police, Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman are currently facing execution in Pakistan.
Marc Callcutt asks members of the public to show their support for Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman.
After nearly five years in prison without trial and having suffered brutal torture at the hands of the police, Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman are currently facing execution in Pakistan.
When Defence Secretary John Hutton admitted that, contrary to previous government assurances, two terror suspects captured by British troops in Iraq were handed over to the United States to be rendered to Afghanistan, no-one at Reprieve expressed surprise.
In the course of trying to reach prisoners held beyond the rule of law worldwide, our investigators have uncovered a multitude of uncomfortable facts about our own government's role in the War on Terror. The challenge for us has been trying to get the Department of Defence to 'fess up', and help us access the thousands of 'disappeared' prisoners who are ...
Marc Callcutt launches Reprieve's campaign for Naheem and Rehan Zaman with a press conference to reveal their plight.
After nearly five years in prison without trial and having suffered brutal torture at the hands of the police, Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman are currently facing execution in Pakistan.
Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve, the organisation which specialises in providing legal support for defending human rights, especially Death Row cases in the USA, shares his Private Passions with Michael Berkeley this afternoon.
Many of Clive's musical choices are influenced by his work, including a gospel choir singing Jesus Dropped The Charges, Peter Gabriel's Biko and Sunshine On Leith by The Proclaimers. He also loves Bach, Rossini and Thomas Tallis.
How Binyam is coping with his first few days of freedom.
“I still think I might wake up tomorrow morning and find myself back in Guantánamo Bay,” Binyam Mohamed told me, as we took a walk in the countryside after his release last week. “It would all be the same. I’d just find that I had just been allowed to spend a rather longer-than-normal visit with my attorney.”
Adjusting after seven years in prison is not easy; adjusting after the surreal nightmare of seven years of torture, much harder. Binyam and I talked as we climbed a hill in ...
Clare Algar questions the role of the British government in the detention of Binyam Mohamed.
British resident Binyam Mohamed, who has spent 7 years of his life in US custody, most recently in Guantanamo Bay, came home to the UK yesterday. All charges against him have been dropped. Reprieve lawyers have acted for Binyam during his time in Guantanamo Bay and we are delighted with this news. Binyam’s extraordinary ordeal of torture and unlawful imprisonment is now over, but there are still unanswered questions about the role the British government played in Binyam’s story.
Binyam was captured in ...
President Obama has decided to deny Bagram's prisoners their rights.
President Obama has, sadly, has stuck to his predecessor’s plan, arguing that prisoners held in the Bagram Air Force Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan, have no right to petition the courts for review of their detention.
Bagram is to remain another lawless enclave. Indeed, it’s the “Bagram Bait and Switch”. Instead of 242 prisoners in Guantánamo, there are to be 1,100 prisoners held beyond the rule of law in Bagram.
For a long time now, at Reprieve, we have emphasized that Guantánamo Bay was a diversionary tactic ...
How has a basically decent person such as David Miliband got himself into such a muddle over torture?
Binyam Mohamed was rendered by the CIA from Pakistan to Morocco to face 18 months of torture. As we have tried to reunite him with his legal rights, I and other lawyers at Reprieve have witnessed his declining mental and physical health. Since the New Year, he has been on a hungerstrike, force fed in the gratuitously unpleasant process employed in Guantánamo Bay. More than once he has collapsed from the pain.
As his suffering dragged on towards an eighth year ...
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