Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
The CIA drones programme is both the next phase in the so-called ‘War on Terror’ and the death penalty without trial. Reprieve is therefore working to expose and challenge the programme, along with Islamabad lawyer Shahzad Akbar and various international and Pakistani artists and activists.
Reprieve is actively investigating the role of European states, including Romania, Poland and Lithuania, in the illegal incarceration and torture of prisoners in the "War on Terror".
Over the years of the War on Terror, the shape of secret prisons has changed. The days have mostly passed when hundreds of men were scooped up from the four corners of the globe, shuttled to black sites in Europe or Afghanistan and, finally, warehoused in Guantánamo.
The Hippocratic Oath is the bedrock of Western medicine. Its fundamental tenets – to work for the health and benefit of the sick and protect them from harm and injustice – are at the heart of the physician’s code of conduct. But medical ethics don’t just concern physicians; all branches of the medical community are committed to providing services which improve the health and lives of mankind – and none would wish their services to be used for ill.
Do your clients have ties to foreign countries? Could they have a claim to foreign nationality? If so, Reprieve can help…
The Government has set out proposals which would mean that in future, UK complicity in torture and rendition will be covered up, rather than brought to light. Reprieve is working to oppose these plans and ensure they do not become law.
Reprieve needs your help to show just how widespread police torture is in Pakistan. We are now gathering personal accounts to create a body of evidence which the Pakistani authorities can no longer ignore. If you know someone who has been tortured or abused by the Pakistan police, please contact us.
Since 2002, despite repeated assertions from the British government about its opposition to such abuse, Reprieve has encountered and uncovered evidence of UK involvement in activities amounting to complicity in torture.
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