Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
In this film, Reprieve's Stop the Lethal Injection Project (SLIP) urges pharmaceutical companies to sign the Pharmaceutical Hippocratic Oath to prevent the use of their products in US executions.
Presented by Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador Bianca Jagger, this video shows how important consular assistance is for foreign nationals facing the death penalty in the US.
This report, including a comment by Reprieve's Legal Director Cori Crider, looks at the circumstances around the rendition of Abdel Hakim Belhadj and Sami al Saadi to Libya in 2004, and how Jack Straw might be complicit in their ordeal.
Reprieve's Legal Director Cori Crider talks about the lawsuit made against former foreign secretary Jack Straw by Abdel Hakim Belhadj and Sami al Saadi, and why politicians should be held accountable for their role in rendition.
Reprieve's Legal Director Cori Crider and former Minister of State at the Home Office Hazel Blears discuss the lawsuit brought by Libyan rendition victims against Jack Straw.
Recent investigations by Reprieve show that Norway's Government Pension fund has invested in IT and security giant Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) - a company now accused of organising rendition flights for the CIA in the US "War on Terror".
This morning we came to the Islamabad District Court. It is here that the most serious cases in the land may be decided – often, a death penalty case; today (for us) the question of whether various CIA operatives should be arrested for committing murder-by-drone.
Consular assistance plays a vital role safeguarding the rights of foreign nationals facing the death penalty. This short, ten-minute, film, provides guidance to consular officials about how to respond effectively when one of their nationals is arrested in the USA.
A new study suggests that the federal courts are no longer going to grant habeas corpus petitions from Guantanamo detainees—even those who were cleared by the military long ago.
For the past several days I have been staying at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, as close to Waziristan as I can reasonably go. I have been meeting with various victims of the drone attacks.
A new project which brings together all the available data on hundreds of victims of rendition, torture and secret detention launches online today.
Responding to Justice Secretary Ken Clarke’s defence yesterday of the Government’s proposals for secret courts, in which he stated that “We’ll make it the judge that makes the decision,” and claimed, “When I announced what I was proposing last October there was no fuss, everybody agreed,” Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar said:
A judge in the final appeal hearing of Ivan Teleguz, who is facing the death penalty in Virginia despite key witnesses having renounced their testimony against him, has said it would be “more humane” to allow him to present evidence of his innocence.
Reprieve has today released a new video aimed at helping pharmaceutical companies unwillingly caught up in the US death penalty system.
A Ukrainian prisoner will make a last-ditch attempt to convince a US court of his innocence today, after the prosecution's key witnesses admitted to lying in his original trial.
By Ed Silverman, Pharmalot, 22/05/2012
By Clive Stafford Smith, Newsweek Pakistan, 22/05/2012
By Chizom Ekeh, The Morning Star, 20/05/2012
By Clive Stafford Smith, The Express Tribune, 16/05/2012
By Morten Larsen, Arbejderen, 16/05/2012
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