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Students from Old Field School in Bath respond to Death Penalty film
Kim Reed, an English teacher at the Old Field School in Bath, recently contacted Reprieve on behalf of her GCSE students after they had watched Paul Hamman’s Fourteen Days in May (1987). Hamman’s film is a hard-hitting documentary which recounts the final days of Edward Earl Johnson before he was executed in a Mississippi gas chamber on May 20 1987.
Johnson’s innocence has since been widely accepted – indeed, it was accepted by many prison officials at the time. The documentary argues against the death penalty ...
Op-ed: Yemen and the Peshawar High Court's condemnation of drones
Baraa Shiban
Reprieve's Yemen Project Coordinator
The US’ covert and illegal drone war in Pakistan suffered a heavy blow today when a Pakistani High Court called the strikes illegal and a violation of human rights. The Court also said the strikes breach Pakistan’s sovereignty and encouraged the Pakistani government and security forces to stop future strikes. The question all Yemenis should be asking is “why is this not the case in Yemen?”. Surely, the death of a Yemeni is no less tragic or illegal than that of ...
By Johnny Gallagher
U.S. Strikes "kerosene for insurgency": Reprieve fellow gives testimony to Congressional hearing on Drones
Reprieve fellow and Yemeni coordinator, Baraa Shiban, gave video testimony this week to a Congressional hearing on drone strikes on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.
Speaking from Yemen, where there has been a steep rise in the number of drone strikes over the last year, and where a recent strike has seen at least 12 further innocent civilians killed, Baraa was despairing of the impact on popular feeling of what no-one in Yemen or the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan ...
Two separate lightning quick reactions to President Obama's news conference on Tuesday characterized him as a "bystander" to his own presidency. Both criticized the President for talking about his stalled legislative agenda in passive terms, as if they were things that just "happened," rather than failures his own inaction had helped to bring about. To my mind, the indictment is particularly apt in Obama's odd characterization of the debacle that is Guantanamo Bay.
The President rightly noted that the prison camp is "expensive...inefficient...and hurts [the U.S.] in terms of our international standing." He stated categorically ...
By Joel Sharples
On 15 May Reprieve will be hosting a talk with Jeremy Scahill, American investigative journalist and author of the recently published Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.
The book, which has received praise from military insiders as well as the most trenchant critics of American foreign policy, is the culmination of Scahill’s tireless and uncompromising work documenting the ugly new mutations of the ‘War on Terror’.
Since coming to power Barack Obama has greatly expanded the operations of covert commando units such as the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and the CIA’s Special Activities ...
by Alexis Comninos
Nabil, à Guantanamo depuis 11 ans, sans charges ni procès demande à la France de l’accueillir. Alors qu’il a rejoint la grève de la faim et que son état de santé inquiète, ses avocats continuent de mener une bataille juridique pour rendre possible son retour en France. D’après les représentants légaux de détenus à Guantanamo, ils ne seraient plus que quelques uns à accepter de s’alimenter, la grande majorité ayant rejoint la grève de la faim. L’armée américaine elle avance des chiffres bien moindres mais reconnait ...
The Guantanamo Bay hunger strike is now well into its 10th week. Many had forgotten the plight, or even the existence, of those still held at the US detention centre. But the abuse of these men has continued even as the world’s attention has waned. Hunger striking is more than just a cry for help. First hand accounts of the extreme toll this strike has taken on the physical and mental well-being of the protesters highlights just how desperate the situation is. The decision to hunger strike is not one that is taken lightly.
Hunger strikes have been ...
No human rights convention in history has had as much support and as many ratifications as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This is because we have decided collectively and globally that children matter and deserve protection.
But the ugly question which arises from state practice is whether all children matter, whether some children might matter rather more than other children, and whether in fact some children may not matter at all.
The US, through its drone programme in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, seems to be affirming that it holds the latter view.
At least 204 child ...
By Richard Tomsett, Reprieve volunteer
The US government has continued its penchant for rebranding the facts at Guantanamo Bay.
This latest example of rose-tinted fact distortion follows a long list of euphemistic spin on the abuses of human rights at Guantanamo Bay by the US government. Top of any list of such doublespeak would of course have to be the terrifyingly transparent rebranding of ‘torture’ as ‘enhanced interrogation’. And a few weeks ago, the prison authorities said there was no hunger strike, despite evidence presented by lawyers that almost all of the men in Camp 6 are on hunger strike ...
Last week, Reprieve received a despairing letter from Ahmed Belbacha, one of our clients in Guantanamo Bay. Cleared for release since 2007, Ahmed fears being forcibly repatriated to his native Algeria, where he was convicted in absentia during a sham trial, and where he would almost certainly be tortured or thrown in prison upon his return. Yet like other detainees, he is prohibited from being re-settled in a third country due to the Kafka-esque provisions of the NDAA 2013 (and its predecessors of the last three years). Thus, as Ahmed’s lawyers, we have unfortunately become accustomed to receiving despondent ...
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