Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve is giving away two tickets to our fantastic comedy night on 7th June featuring Tim Minchin, Stewart Lee and a host of other great comedy acts. All you have to do is e-mail us your funniest quip.
For more information on Laughter/Pain, visit http://www.reprieve.org.uk/laughterpain.
To enter the competition please tell us your funniest joke by sending it to cortney.busch@reprieve.org.uk. The joke which makes the Reprieve office laugh the hardest wins - and might just get read out by Clive Stafford Smith on the night.
All entries must be received by ...
We’re absolutely delighted that Reprieve’s ‘Life after Guantanamo’ [LAG] team has been shortlisted for a 2010 Charity Award. The prestigious Charity Awards recognise and celebrate excellence in leadership and management of charities.
The small LAG team (just Polly Rossdale and Chloe Davies) has had a significant impact on the lives of those released from Guantánamo Bay, as well as the push to get cleared prisoners released to Europe. To date, 44 men have been referred to the LAG team; 27 of them have been released from Guantánamo, and the LAG team has been directly involved in facilitating a ...
If I recall correctly there was speculative talk for a brief while of 'prison ships' to cope with prison overcrowding in the UK. I am sure the radical proposal was only ever the result of a brainstorming session- and we all know what results they produce (see the recent FCO memo regarding Pope Benedict’s pending visit?).
However only last week did Nigeria’s state governors, in the spirit of astonishing off-the-wall suggestions that make prison-ships sound like cruises to rival the Queen Mary; did they offer their support for the execution of over 300 prisoners on death row to ...
Six years ago the British took two men into custody in Iraq. Working with the Americans, the UK then rendered the men to Afghanistan where they have been held ever since in secret detention, beyond the protection of law.
The charity for which I work, Reprieve, has been trying to reunite them with their legal rights. We do not insist that they are innocent – although the evidence suggests that they are. We do insist that they should be allowed a fair trial.
The government has a policy for this kind of thing of course. Let us identify the policy, and ...
Reprieve attorney Tara Murray will answer questions after this evening's 8pm screening of Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo at the Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1.
Tara represents prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, and will appear alongside former prisoners Moazzam Begg and Omar Deghayes and the film's creators Andy Worthington and Polly Nash.
Time Out has described Outside the Law as "a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-American conspiracy".
Visit the film's website or book tickets here.
Allowing a prisoner to 'choose' the method of his own execution is a rather twisted application of human rights.
Yet that’s the choice Ronnie Lee Gardner has recently grappled with. On Friday, having initially opted for lethal injection, Ronnie sent a simple request to the judge in Salt Lake City: "I would like the firing squad, please."
Since the US Supreme Court temporarily suspended capital punishment in the 1970s, the only other execution by firing squad was that of John Taylor in 1996 – also in Utah. According to the New York Times, Taylor chose this method of execution ‘to ...
In a country where a senior cleric can boldly assert that women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes, it is saddening, but not surprising, that state executions in Iran are rife.
However over the last few months Iran has become a hotbed of activity. Since mid- February there have been at least nine hangings as well as floggings, and limb amputations for those accused of crimes ranging from robbery to rape.
In 2009 Iran carried out a reported 402 executions. Among those executed was a 26 year-old student named Kouhyar who was enrolled at ...
At exactly 5.18pm yesterday, William Berkley became the sixth Texas inmate to die by lethal injection in 2010, after being condemned to death for the slaying of 18 year old Sophia Martinez in March 2000.
Berkley was convicted of fatally shooting the El Paso high school senior after robbing and sexually assaulting her. In his brief statement before execution, William thanked his girlfriend, a friend and his spiritual adviser, who were at the execution, for their love and support. He has always vehemently denied killing Martinez and states he was not given a fair trial.
Gary James Johnson, Kenneth ...
The town of Leverett, Massachusetts will soon vote on a resolution which, if passed, will offer Ahmed Belbacha a second home in the US.
No More Guantánamos issued a press release today reminding the US public that the five remaining Uighurs in the Cuban detention centre are not the only individuals unable to return home safely.
The release also states that the town of Leverett, Massachusetts may mirror previous attempts made by Amherst, Massachusetts in offering Guantánamo Bay detainee, Ahmed Belbacha, a home in the States.
In November 2009, Amherst passed an unusual resolution affirming they would accept Ahmed as ...
72% of Guantánamo prisoners whose cases have been reviewed by US courts were found to have been illegally held by the Americans.
Since June 2008, when the landmark US Supreme Court decision Boumediene finally gave Guantánamo prisoners the right to challenge their detentions in US courts, nearly 3/4ths of the prisoners whose habeas cases have advanced have been successful.
This week, Andy Worthington will be hosting “Guantanamo Habeas Week” on his site, where he’ll be examining the 47 cases that have been decided thus far.
The rulings reviewed shed light on the utter lack of evidence available to ...
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