Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
As a front-page article in Finland’s leading daily Helsingin Sanomat today explains, the Finnish government have reluctantly been compelled, in response to requests by Amnesty International, to release some data about suspicious planes passing through Finnish territory between 2001 and 2006. But does the government have the will to investigate the loose ends which this data has brought to light?
The mysterious flight of N733MA in March 2006 is a case in point. According to the data released by the Finnish foreign ministry, this plane flew from Porto in Portugal to Finland, arriving in Helsinki at 20:37 on ...
January 11, 2012 will mark the 10th anniversary of Guantánamo Bay Naval Base opening its doors as a detention centre. In those ten years, 779 men have been detained (and mistreated) in this island prison. As of today, 171 men remain and Guantánamo isn't showing signs of closing any time soon; in fact, there is construction all over the base.
It's true the conditions have improved vastly since the days of living in outside cages and the use of torture techniques designed to break US soldiers being held by Communist dictatorships has ended. However, a new ...
On Monday night a team from Reprieve went to see Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London.
In the play, Paulina Salas – played by the impossibly beautiful Thandie Newton – was brutally raped by a doctor who played Schubert’s string quartet Death and the Maiden while he tortured her. We watch events unfold in Salas’ home between Paulina, her human rights lawyer husband and a mysterious doctor who she believes is her tormentor.
Set in post-Pinochet Chile, Dorfman uses the play to expose the use of torture as a tool for…what, exactly ...
“The principle idea of Active Resistance is that you get out of life what you put in and that real experience of the world involves thinking. It is not enough to follow world politics, see films and read the prize-winning best sellers. This is superficial, you need to go deep in order to understand who you are, what the world is and how things could be better.” Vivienne Westwood
In November, a new book is being published to catalogue the 100 images collected as a result of this campaign. Starting on the 8th of September 2010, people were asked ...
"What was a science-fiction scenario not much more than a decade ago has become today’s news.”
This quote from Scott Shane’s thoughtful article on China’s recent unveiling of 25 new models of drone sums up the way modern warfare is about to change. That change is coming rapidly - so rapidly that discussions of the legal, moral and political implications surrounding these “robot wars” are going to have to run to catch up.
If China becomes the world’s fourth nation to use drone strikes against suspected enemies, we may have a new international norm on our hands ...
This year, both Ohio and California have issued two bills replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment without parole.
In 2010, with eight executions, Ohio placed itself on the second rank of the ignominious podium of US retentionist states, preceded only by Texas. In March 2011, the General Assembly of the State of Ohio approved House Bill (HB) n.160, envisaging the abolishment of the death penalty and its replacement with life imprisonment with possibility of parole after serving 20 or 30 years of imprisonment or without possibility of parole, depending on the case. Although still waiting to go through ...
On Friday we made an urgent appeal for £655 to cover emergency medical costs for former Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed el Gharani, and thanks to an overwhelming response from Reprieve supporters we have raised £1,706: over twice the amount needed! Thank you so much to everyone who made a donation.
We relayed the good news to Mohammed via Reprieve staff who are currently visiting him and he was absolutely thrilled to learn of the number of supporters who came forward to help him. Beyond the fact that he now has access to the medical care that he so badly ...
Reprieve is making an urgent appeal for £655 to support a critical medical intervention for Mohammed el Gharani—the youngest prisoner ever held in Guantánamo.
Some of you may remember Mohammed from when we appealed for books for him in Guantánamo, a little over two years ago. He had missed out on most of his education, and was desperate to catch up.
Background:
Mohammed was born in Saudi Arabia to Chadian parents. He was seized from a mosque in Pakistan when he was only 14 and traded to the CIA in return for a considerable bounty. He was ...
Ahmed Errachidi, a former Guantanamo prisoner, has had an extract from his book, A Handful of Walnuts, published in Granta magazine’s latest issue, “Ten Years Later,” dedicated to the consequences of September 11th 2001.
I was first privileged enough to read Ahmed’s manuscript when it was emailed to me by a colleague in September 2010 while I was doing research as a volunteer at Reprieve. I printed it out and took it home, and read it in a few days. I couldn’t believe how good it was. I was gripped, couldn’t put it down, and ...
In 2005 Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were arrested in Bali, Indonesia and have since admitted that they attempted to traffic drugs to Australia.
Both young men from Sydney have exhausted all their legal appeals. The only avenue that can save them from the firing squad is a successful clemency appeal to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Harnessing the power of social media, a Melbourne based group - The Mercy Campaign - is collecting signatures for a petition to deliver to the Indonesian president, respectfully asking that the lives of the two men be spared.
The campaign is not asking that ...
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