Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Recorded this week in Mountain View Unit, the prison where Linda Carty is being held on death row, this speech will be broadcast on a loop in Trafalgar Square at 10am this morning. Linda tells her story and pleads with the British people to help save her life.
You can also listen to the speech and help us help Linda by contributing to our urgent appeal for Linda Carty.
Hello Trafalgar Square! My name is Linda Carty and I’m speaking to you from Death Row in Texas, in the United States.
It is everybody’s worst nightmare to be ...
Today Reprieve are asking everybody that visits this page to spare two minutes to sign this petition on the Downing Street website, asking that Gordon Brown personally intervene in the case of Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman.
Five years ago, Naheem and Rehan were accused of the murder of two of their family members as a result of a dispute about the family land. They were arrested and taken to Dadyal Police Station, where they were tortured for two weeks, at which point they felt they had no choice but to sign confessions.
The torture they were subjected to was ...
Last week, Cori blogged about our trip to Nairobi to meet President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. We were there to talk about our Guantánamo client Ismail Mahmoud Muhamed who is a close associate of the President, yet still languishing in Guantánamo Bay.
Our meeting went well, and we were pleased to see the following article appear in Africa Confidential, Volume 50 no 17:
Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) will ask the United States to release a Somali terrorist suspect from Guantánamo Bay. Ismail Mahmoud Mohamed was a friend of and former advisor to President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and they worked ...
On Wednesday July 22nd 2009 Shaker Aamer was supposed to see his lawyer. Instead, he was beaten by six soldiers clad in riot gear, stripped down with a pair of heavy duty shears, and left to wallow under a cold air conditioning vent.
Shaker's attorney, Brent Mickum, said that Shaker has been "undergoing regular torture from beatings to food and sleep deprivation since his arrival in Guantanamo.
Though at first glance, Shaker does not seem like an ideal candidate for systematic torture and abuse. A UK resident whose wife and four children are British nationals, he is educated, a ...
Today the Fifth Circuit heard a last-ditch appeal by Linda Carty, a British grandmother who is currently in on death row in Texas after being convicted of murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection on the basis of a catastrophically flawed trial.
Linda was represented pro bono by Michael Goldberg at Baker Botts and you can listen to the arguments from the hearing here.
The defence argued that Linda's trial lawyer, Jerry Guerinot, failed to provide her with effective assistance, denying her access to a fair trial at the guilt/innocence stage. This includes failing to interview witnesses ...
A new report by Physicians for Human Rights calls for health professionals involved in torture to face investigation for unprofessional and criminal conduct.
In the wake of the release of the CIA Inspector General's report, which revealed the intelligence service's use of 'enhanced interrogation' techniques including prolonged diapering, 'walling' (the detainee is placed in a neck collar which is then used to slam him against a wall) and confinement in a box, Physicians for Human Rights have published a report entitled 'Aiding Torture'.
It details the profound complicity of health professionals in the torture of terror suspects at ...
We feel like it's a great time to be part of the debate about whether Norway should offer a home to ex-prisoners like Sherif el Mashad, and our project is getting lots of attention in the Norwegian press (although sadly we can't understand it!)
See an example below, an article from the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.
Thailand’s double execution last week is a disheartening setback on the road to abolition.
Last Monday, the 24th August, Thailand executed two prisoners for drugs offences, after a six year de facto moratorium on the death penalty. (A de facto moratorium occurs when the death penalty has not been used in a country for such a period as to make it in practice abolished, even whilst it remains available in law).
Thailand had not previously carried out an execution since 2003; one of Reprieve's recent clients, Eric Kong, was sentenced to death in Thailand but granted clemency ...
Texas has held its first ever state-sanctioned review of an execution, and may be forced to declare it has executed an innocent man.
Last week, I wrote a blog discussing the recent dissenting opinion of US Supreme Court Justice Scalia, in which he advocates for a point at which a conviction is deemed final, and cannot be questioned, no matter what new evidence subsequently emerges. Many of those who oppose capital punishment do so on the grounds that this point should never exist: we can never be absolutely certain, and so a conviction should never be irreversible.
The danger of ...
The recent trial of Judge Sharon Keller in Texas has been a spark of hope in the dark world that is Texas’s Death Row.
Michael Wayne Richard, a death row inmate since 1987, was executed in November 2007 when Keller refused to keep the court open after 5pm to receive his appeal. The appeal hinged on a Supreme Court ruling earlier that same day about the constitutionality of current execution methods. His lawyers decided to file a last-minute appeal, which would almost certainly have delayed Mr Richards’s execution, at least for a short time. But they were told ...
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