Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
This stuff stings man; these are the last words spoken by Rodrigo Hernandez, executed by lethal injection in Texas last Thursday. This is the second execution to take place in the United States this year, amid continuing controversy over lethal injection protocols, drugs and administration.
BBC's Gordon Corera reports on the legal action pursued by Libyan rendition victims Abdelhakim Belhadj and Sami al-Saadi (pictured right) against former MI6 counter-terrorism chief Sir Mark Allen.
Іван Телегуз народився в 1978 році в маленькому містечку Кам'янка, яке на той час було розташоване на території Радянського Союзу, а зараз – на Західній Україні.
Beef and Liberty: Fundamental Rights and the Common Law
Reprieve's Executive Director Clare Algar speaks to 5 Live about the Gibson Inquiry and the recent Crown Prosecution decision to investigate UK complicity in the rendition to torture of Libyans Sami al-Saadi and Abdel Hakim Belhadj.
Reprieve's legal director Cori Crider speaks to Al Jazeera about whether the recently launched investigation into British complicity in rendition is a final push to hold the security services to account.
The BBC report on the case of Abdel Hakim Belhadj as an investigation into his rendition is announced.
Clive Stafford Smith speaks to BBC Radio Humberside about the announcement that there will be an investigation into UK complicity in two Libyan renditions.
Clive Stafford Smith speaks to World at One about the announcement of an investigation into Libyan renditions and the failings of the Gibson Inquiry.
Kier Simmons reports on how documents discovered in the fall of Gaddafi's regime are set to serve as evidence into the UK's complicity in torture and rendition.
Jon Snow reports on the announcement today that there will be an investigation into the cases of two Reprieve assisted clients, Sami al Saadi and Abdel Hakim Belhadj.
Polly Rossdale, Reprieve's Project Coordinator on the Life After Guantánamo project, speaks to Al Jazeera.
Mozzam Begg speak to Sky News about the closure of Guantánamo Bay and the last British resident held there, Shaker Aamer.
Reprieve Founder and Director Clive Stafford Smith speaks to BBC London about Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantanamo Bay.
Watch former Guantánamo Bay prisoners speak about their memories of those still imprisoned there.
Speaking to Yunus's cousin, Munir Ahmed, Jon Snow reports on the historic Court of Appeal judgement in the case of Bagram detainee Yunus Rahmatullah.
Sarah Belal from Justice Project Pakistan, talks to Capital Talk about the Pakistanis detained in Bagram
Sarah Belal on the Mubashar Lucman Show, discusses The Bagram Seven in the context of 600 fellow Bagram detainees.
Reprieve legal director Cori Crider speaks on Channel 4 News about a historic ruling in the Court of Appeal, ordering the UK Government to reprieve rendered prisoner Yunus Rahmatullah.
Founder of Reprieve partner Justice Project Pakistan, Sarah Belal, speaks at TEDx FC College about how to find your dream job.
Reprieve's Legal Director, Cori Crider, speaks to the BBC on 16/11/11 about the UK's complicity in Sami al-Saadi's rendition and the next steps.
Reprieve's Legal Director Cori Crider tells ITV that Sami al Saadi will be trusting the Metropolitan Police with his case, as William Hague announces that "The time has come for Britain to draw a line under past allegations that our spies colluded in torture."
BBC Radio 4, 14/11/11
The great, the good and the very, very glamorous all turned out last night for Reprieve’s House of Trivia quiz night.
by Orla Guerin, BBC Radio 4, 02/11/11
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.
June 23, 2011: Roy Willard Blankenship is put to sleep by sodium thiopental, but dies with his eyes wide open.
June 15 2011: Eddie Duval Powell is executed by lethal injection in Alabama.
January 27, 2011: Emanuel Hammond is executed. Hammond closes his eyes, and then re-opens them later.
October 26, 2010: It takes several minutes for Jeffrey Landrigan to die in Arizona. He is executed with sodium thiopental sold by fly-by-night British drug company Dream Pharma. It appeared the anaesthetic may not have worked. It took over 10 minutes for him to be pronounced dead.
September 27th, 2010: Brandon Rhode is executed in Georgia. His eyes remain wide open. Doubts are raised over the way sodium thiopental was administered.
Lethal injections are experimental and frequently botched - leading to an agonisingly painful death for prisoners. Reprieve is today calling on healthcare professionals to help us debunk the myth that this method is 'humane'.
131 Reprieve supporters needed to help Mohammed el
Cuban citizen Manuel Valle was executed today by the state of Florida, despite a dissenting opinion from Justice Bryer of the US Supreme Court.
Reverend Doctor Charles Fraser speaks to Radio 4 on 23/09/11 about the nature of justice and retribution.
Maya Foa on NYC's Five o'clock Shadow talks about the realities of the lethal injection process and practice.
Reprieve founder, Clive Stafford Smith talks at TEDx Marrakesh on 10/09/11 about how the US judicial process results in wrongful convictions.
On the night the Tunisian people successfully overthrew Ben Ali’s dictatorship and began a new democratic journey, five Tunisian men had just spent their ninth anniversary of imprisonment in the notorious US naval base at Guantánamo Bay. They have had neither charge nor trial.
Listen to Reprieve's Executive Director Clare Algar, on Radio 4's World Tonight programme, talk about why Reprieve will not take part in the Gibson inquiry, and the problems surrounding it.
Reprieve is looking for a Resource Development volunteer.
Adel El Gazzar is still inside prison, now in Egypt following his traumatic move from Guantanamo. Protestors peacefully call for his release.
Clare Algar and Malcolm Rifkind debate the need for transparency and its impact on national security.
Reprieve's Executive Director Clare Algar explains to BBC Radio 4's Evan Davis why human rights organisations, lawyers and victims are pulling out of the British Government's Detainee Inquiry.
The role of the Resource Development Officer is to support Reprieve’s efforts in building donor loyalty and maximising the life time value of our donors. The position focuses on the effective administration, maintenance and development of Reprieve’s major donor and institutional funder support systems. Reporting to the Head of Development, the post holder will also work with the Resource Development Officer – Supporter Care, Head of Communications, Operations Director, and volunteers. The full Job Description and Person Specification are attached below. Please apply by 6pm on 19th August by sending a letter and cv to emma.draper@reprieve.org.uk.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead reports from Texas on Rais Bhuiyan's attempts to save the life of the man who shot him.
Rhais Bhuiyan tells the BBC why he has forgiven Mark Stroman for attempting to kill him in the days following 9/11.
For someone to be held without trial once might be accidental; twice, misfortune; but the third time means he is the victim of persecution. Egypt must set Adel al-Gazzar free at once.
Nicole Baltus was a close penpal friend of Cary Kerr, in Texas. He got executed on May 3rd 2011, before he could prove his innocence. She attended his last moment as he was put to death using the drug manufactured by Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck. Today, she sends a personal request to Ulf Wiinberg, the CEO of Lundbeck.
Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner sends a personal message to Ulf Wiinberg, CEO of the Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck to ask him to end their involvement in the executions in the US.
Edward Earl Johnson was executed in a Mississippi gas chamber 24 years ago today, on 20 May 1987.
Reprieve's Director would like to be cast away with Abba, the Koran and his laptop.
Reprieve's Executive Director discusses the missed opportunity to put Bin Laden on trial.
Human rights lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar talks about the innocent victims of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan whom he represents.
BBC World Service's Newshour reports on the supply of lethal injection drugs to the US from Britain and Danish firm Lundbeck, Friday 6 May 2011.
This address on constitutional justice was delivered at Reprieve's second annual death penalty conference in Pakistan on 13th April 2011.
Claims that the torture of detainees was directly responsible for the intelligence that tracked down Osama bin Laden are fanciful at best and cynically manipulative at worst.
Darryl Li on Al Jazeera weighs in with a host of reasons to take the DOD's summary of a Gitmo prisoner--like those recently published by Wikileaks and other news outlets--with a large grain of salt.
Reprieve's Director talks to the BBC's 'Good Morning Scotland' programme about the treatment of Guantanamo prisoners.
Reprieve investigator Maya Foa talks to BBC Radio Scotland's Newsdrive programme about the export ban on lethal injection drugs.
This is a call for applicants to volunteer with Reprieve's Operations team as soon as possible.
Clarence Carter is due to be executed today in Ohio using a procedure that is clinically untested and does not comply with the strict regulations governing the euthanasia of pets.
I have recently joined Reprieve as its new Chair and I’m writing to thank you for supporting us over the years and helping us to shine the light of law into the darkest prisons.
Texas legislators have created very strict regulations about the euthanasia of lizards - but when it comes to executing human beings they are less conscientious.
***EXECUTION STAYED BY SUPREME COURT*** Cleve Foster is due to be executed at 6pm tonight using pentobarbital manufactured by Danish company Lundbeck - the first such execution to take place in Texas.
This is a call for applicants to volunteer with Reprieve's Secret Prisons team for academic year 2011/2012
This is a call for applicants for Reprieve's Summer Internship 2011 Programme.
The mother and brother of executed prisoner Brandon Rhode testify to MPs and journalists about the importance of stopping the export of lethal injection drugs from Britain.
This is a call for applications for a Public Education Volunteer to assist in preparing the Linda Carty campaign.
Today I have signed Senate Bill 3539, which abolishes the death penalty in Illinois.
Reprieve's Director discusses miscarriages of justice and reasonable doubt.
Eric and Liz Fitzsimons talk about their son Danny's life sentence for the murder of two colleagues in Baghdad's Green Zone in August 2009.
The latest ruling by the European Court of Justice requiring that Britain’s insurance industry phase out discrimination on the basis of gender has provoked the predictable “fog-in-the-channel-Continent-cut-off” calls for withdrawal from Europe.
Reprieve's Director discusses 'Fatherhood then and now...'
Reprieve is looking for an Investigator/Caseworker to join the Death Penalty team.
Reprieve's Chair writes about the export of lethal injection drugs from London.
The mother of Brandon Rhode, who was executed in Georgia using British drugs that may not have been properly effective, speaks to Radio 4.
Do your clients have ties to foreign countries? Could they have a claim to foreign nationality? If so, Reprieve can help…
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 that the Pakistani authorities will not be able to ignore. If you know someone who has been tortured or abused by the Pakistan police, please contact us.
Reprieve's Director explains why he represents people who admit they have committed a crime.
Reprieve's Director talks about revelations that Dream Pharma knew its drugs would be used to kill, and that prisoner Emanuel Hammond is due to die tomorrow with British drugs.
Think of the worst thing you have ever done. Now imagine that for the rest of your life you were judged on that moment. Clive Stafford Smith talks crime and punishment.
Please write a letter of support to a Guantánamo Bay prisoner.
Reprieve's Director talks to the Today programme about the fly-by-night British pharmaceutical company selling lethal injection drugs to the US.
Companies around the World, state their position on the use of their drugs in U.S. executions.
Reprieve's Director talks about the export of execution drugs from Britain to the US.
Speakers included Jon Snow, Lily Cole, Paul McGann and Bianca Jagger.
Linda Carty est une grand-mère britannique qui fait face à une exécution imminente au Texas. Elle a toujours maintenu son innocence. Très religieuse, Linda chante Amazing Grace dans le couloir de la mort, afin de mieux affronter la perspective de son exécution. Nous vous remercions de bien vouloir participer à notre campagne "Chanter Amazing Grace pour Linda Carty", afin de manifester votre soutien à Linda et demander à l’État du Texas de lui accorder la grâce.
Watch British grandmother Linda Carty, now facing imminent execution in Texas.
Right now, giving money to Reprieve will result in double the dosh!
In our second report from the front line, Cori and investigator Ghada Eldemellawy return to Sana'a, where they meet the family of Reprieve client Sharif Mobley.
Metal Magazine, November 2010
The Director of Reprieve's Death Penalty team explains why Reprieve is bringing a judicial review this week in the High Court. Brought by Leigh Day and Co. on behalf of death row prisoners, the review challenges the British government's decision not to prevent the export of execution drug sodium thiopental.
Reprieve has launched a new project aimed at bringing European influence and pressure to bear on the practice and implementation of the death penalty in the US. A cornerstone of the Project will be a comprehensive review of US death row in order to identify all foreign nationals.
Hosted by Alistair Barrie and Clive Stafford Smith at the Lyceum Theatre, London on 7th June.
Clive Stafford Smith was awarded the Judges' Special Beacon Prize for Outstanding Philanthropic Achievement. This video was shown at the event.
Date call released: 8 November 2010 Deadline for applications: 26 November 2010 Reprieve has launched a new project aimed at bringing European influence and pressure to bear on the practice and implementation of the death penalty in the US. A cornerstone of the Project will be a comprehensive review of US death row in order to identify all foreign nationals. This is a call for expressions of interest for the role of Research Fellow on this Project. We are currently seeking to recruit two or three Research Fellows. A full description and person specification for this role follows below. Expressions of interest should be comprised of: • A full CV/resume of no more than two pages; • A letter of interest of no more than three pages. Expressions of interest should be submitted electronically by the date above to May Carolan at may.carolan@reprieve.org.uk. Please ensure all attachments are in a format able to be read by Microsoft XP/ Office. We will be undertaking telephone and face to face interviews promptly after the closing date. For any questions about this role and the application process overall please email May at the address above. Please feel free to circulate this notice as widely as possible.
In the first of our series Reprieve in Action, lawyer Cori Crider and investigator Ghada Eldemellawy report from Sana'a, Yemen, where they are defending Sharif Mobley.
As the government launches its new strategy for the global abolition of the death penalty, British Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne answers questions from the public.
British solicitor Gareth Peirce explains how state secrecy kills justice.
Reprieve's Death Penalty Director joins Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne to talk about the pursuit of worldwide abolition against the death penalty.
by Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio, 04/10/2010
Find out about Reprieve supporters and watch Martha Lane Fox, founder of lastminute.com, explain why she became one of Reprieve patrons.
Reprieve staff are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Lord Bingham of Cornhill.
Reprieve's deputy Death Penalty Director talks about Linda Carty's life-size death row prison cell in Trafalgar Square, and about Reprieve's work.
Human rights advocate and fashion icon Bianca Jagger shows her support for Linda Carty.
A letter from Bianca Jagger to Prime Minister David Cameron about Linda Carty.
The myths and the facts on the death penalty: fairness.
The myths and facts of the death penalty: evil.
The myths and the facts of the death penalty: innocence.
The myths and facts of the death penalty: inequality
The myths and the facts of the death penalty: deterrence.
The myths and facts of the death penalty: cruelty.
The myths and the facts on the death penalty - victim's families.
The myths and facts on the death penalty: politics.
Includes footage of Anna Chancellor reading Linda's speech.
Myths and facts of the death penalty: cost.
Kindly made for us by a supporter, the video includes footage of Aruba Red's performance from the cell.
I write today to propose another break from Labour’s unsound policies in the ‘war on terror’: its refusal to repatriate former Bournemouth resident Ahmed Belbacha from Guantánamo Bay.
Death's Waiting Room launch - Live
by Mary Fitzgerald, The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 14, No. 3, May 2010
Shabbir Zaib and his Reprieve lawyer Marc discuss the terrible events that led to Shabbir's imprisonment and torture in Pakistan and how Reprieve managed to bring him home to Britain.
Clive Stafford Smith calls on Sir Peter Gibson to stand down as the lead judge on the UK torture inquiry, due to apparent bias.
This is the text of Reprieve's letter to Sir Peter Gibson, asking him to reconsider his position. The fully referenced letter is attached below.
Clive Stafford Smith talks about the Coalition Government's announcement of an inquiry into allegations of torture complicity.
Reports surfaced today that the government was planning an inquiry into allegations that British Security and Intelligence Services were complicit in torture.
L'oncle de Nabil Hadjarab, Ahmed Hadjarab, demande le rapatriement de son neveu, Nabil Hadjarab, en France. Il considère Nabil comme son propre enfant.
Jovelle Carty Joubert advocates for her mother during last week's trip to London.
Linda Carty's daughter talks about her mother's case and what it's been like growing up without her mum.
Truth and reconciliation, not criminal prosecution, are the best way of tackling the UK's woeful record on rendition and abuse.
In an article for New York Times, Adam Liptak looks at Jerry Guerinot's record in capital cases.
Jovelle Joubert talks about her mother's impending execution after the Supreme Court rejected her appeal.
The Foreign Office claims it opposes secret detention, but it has endlessly stonewalled the truth from my charity Reprieve
In March the British government asked two high court judges to allow them to cover up evidence of UK complicity in torture even more thoroughly than they did in the case of Binyam Mohamed. Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni was rendered through the UK territory of Diego Garcia and tortured
Reprieve works for those in need of legal representation around the world – prisoners who would otherwise be held with no chance of justice and a fair trial. This map shows some of our current cases.
The increasingly desperate case of Reprieve client Linda Carty is gaining more and more attention in the media and online.
Reprieve lawyer Marc Callcutt talks about his visit to Mirpur prison in Pakistan, where two of our clients are facing the death penalty.
BBC journalist Hilary Andersson and David Davis MP talk about Reprieve's legal action for Yunus Rahmatullah, rendered by the UK from Iraq to Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan.
British citizens send an urgent video message to the United States.
MI5 is at fault over torture, but its bosses refuse to be blamed for the decisions of politicians
The Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador and founder of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation has made an urgent appeal for Linda Carty.
Ten inspirational British women stand up for Linda Carty on International Women's Day.
Learning nothing from Binyam Mohamed's case, the government is again covering up complicity in rendition and torture
The Christmas execution of Akmal Shaikh in China prompted many to ask why more was not done earlier to prevent it. This week the British government is fighting to save the life of another British citizen: Linda Carty in Texas.
We shouldn't have to resort to the courts to find out if the UK has been complicit in torture of prisoners in the 'war on terror'
It is said that the very existence of the Security Services (SyS) involves violating, if not our own laws, the laws of other countries.
Governments around the world, including those of Arab and European states, have colluded in the secret detention of terrorism suspects, UN investigators have reported.
Watch Reprieve's London staff talk about their work.
Ahmed Belbacha is fully cleared for release, but remains in Guantánamo simply because he has nowhere safe to go.
Please help these men who remain illegally imprisoned.
There is little doubt that when history comes to consider the first decade of the 21st century, it will not be forgotten that some Western governments were complicit in the use of torture techniques more at home in the 17th.
The case made by China in the execution of Akmal Shaikh undermines its claim to have a rational drugs policy
An urgent appeal for people to get involved in the campaign to save Akmal's life.
Reprieve asks the world to listen to the plight of the prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay.
Another day, another crime. That’s how it seems to be going for the British government at the moment.
I am writing about a very troubling matter. It involves the honesty of your government. I do not like to accuse anyone of lying; it saddens me to have to say that Parliament has been misled in a number of ways, and recent events have only compounded the problem.
A US court restores the death penalty against a man in defiance of overwhelming, recently discovered evidence and for no apparent reason.
Watch this video to learn about Reprieve's achievements on death rows and secret detentions worldwide.
The shocking secret memos used to justify CIA torture tactics are revealed in an extraordinary new book.
On the night that Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, 21-year-old Mohammed el Gharani was sitting in a segregation cell in Guantanamo Bay's high security Echo Block.
Reprieve attorneys Cori Crider, Ahmed Ghappour and Clive Stafford Smith write to the Massachusetts town of Amherst, in support of their offer to defy Congress and welcome Ahmed Belbacha, a Guantanamo prisoner with no safe place to go.
Channel 4 screens a drama about the hanging of Paul Gadd tonight, but we learn more from trying to understand criminals than from killing them.
New moves to criminalise rendition are most welcome when such extrajucidial intervention can distort local prosecutions
China's plans to execute a mentally ill Briton raise stark questions about the Chinese justice system
by Andrew Wander, Al Jazeera English, 18/10/09
Akmal Shaikh is facing imminent execution in China for carrying drugs; Reprieve has serious concerns that Akmal is in this dire situation as a result of his mental health problems
In honor of World Day Against the Death Penalty Clive tells Al Jazerra why he believes capital punishment is a "horrific" act
Watch a video interview with Clive Stafford-Smith for the Council of Europe's Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2009, and read his Twitter Q&A.
This is an interview undertaken by Reprieve volunteer Emmanuel Purdon with a death row prisoner Anthony Mungin to mark the International Day Against the Death Penalty.
Twelve years after he was wrongly convicted for the rape and murder of two sisters, Paco Larranaga has finally been released from the notorious Bilibid prison in Manilla and is being transferred to Madrid today.
by Andrew Wander, Al Jazeera English, 30/08/09
by Andrew Wander, Al Jazeera English, 04/08/09
Please send a birthday to Linda Carty, the British grandmother on death row in Texas
British barrister Hugh Southey visits Linda on death row in Texas.
I’ve spent a really fascinating and inspiring week volunteering at Reprieve.
Time is running out for British grandmother Linda Carty who is on death row in Texas: we need extra funds to help us fight for her in these last crucial months.
Recorded this week in Mountain View Unit, the prison where Linda Carty is being held, this speech will be broadcast in Trafalgar Square at 10am this morning. Linda tells her story and pleads with the British people to help save her life.
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.
On August 12, 1949, in the aftermath of one of the most devastating conflicts the world had ever seen, something extraordinary happened.
Reprieve yesterday announced litigation against the British Government over the cover-up of the truth about the illegal rendition to Afghanistan of two prisoners captured by the British in Iraq in 2004.
The Human Face of Death Row, an exhibition exploring the human cost of the death penalty, is now open to the public following a successful launch night at the Oxo Gallery on London’s South Bank. Franck Martin reports.
Government officials should be the first group covered by freedom of information laws, not the last - especially when it comes to criminal acts.
Former Guantánamo guard Captain Kirk Black's suggestions on how to deal with the rest of the Bay's prisoners have fallen on deaf ears.
Franck Martin speaks to Clive Stafford Smith about Guantánamo Bay and the profound significance of the legal case of Binyam Mohamed.
How the European Union is getting in the way of Guantánamo's closure.
The Defence Secretary has told Parliament that British troops in Iraq handed over to the United States two terror suspects to be rendered to Afghanistan.
Clare Algar questions the role played by the British government in the detention of Binyam Mohamed.
Reprieve client Binyam Mohamed issues a statement through Clive Stafford Smith following his release from Guantanamo Bay.
How has a basically decent person such as David Miliband got himself into such a muddle over torture?
Only a few days ago, on January 20th, Americans said Happy New (Four) Year(s), with the inauguration of Barack Obama.
Barack Obama has done his bit for justice by suspending trials at Guantánamo, now Britain must give a home to some of its prisoners.
Obama has been left with a chalice overflowing with poison, and he will need help if he is to pour it away.
At Reprieve we are taking a moment to consider our achievements, and learn lessons where things did not turn out as we hoped, as we celebrate our 10th birthday this year.
This week, the Law Lords outlawed the use of torture evidence. That should be good news, I suppose, but I find it disquieting.
The Prime Minister should feel most welcome to nationalise Reprieve, and pour a few millions into our work.
The justifiable joy at Obama's pledge to close Guantánamo must be tempered with the knowledge that its detainees represent less than one percent of prisoners still held by the US beyond the rule of law.
When Guantánamo Bay closes, a swell of well-intentioned – and justified – goodwill towards the new president will release the pressure to resolve some darker legacies. As economic stimulus packages monopolize the front pages, let us hope these prisoners are not wholly forgotten.
Interview with Clive Stafford Smith on Obama and the closure of Guantánamo Bay
Many still think torture by music is merely a rather irritating encounter with someone else's iPod, but its effects can be far more insidious than physical pain.
Binyam Mohammad and the special relationship.
Guantánamo has been a decoy -- sometimes ironic, more often tragic -- drawing attention from a far more shady world of U.S.-sponsored interrogation chambers.
Of all the rights that we might expect our government to recognise, freedom from torture is top of the list.
The promotion of human rights by Lush is admirable, an example that should be followed by any ethical corporation. Enter “The Oracle” of Reading...
The problem with handing down sentences of death.
Torture, the incumbents and the 2008 presidential election.
Clive Stafford Smith has devoted decades to saving prisoners from the death penalty. But this week he was forced to take a life - that of his beloved dog. He describes the pain of their last hours together.
According to legend, Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, is the oldest inhabited city on earth, established by one of the sons of Noah. Arriving at the airport, the walk down the steps from a smart Emirates jumbo jet takes me fifty years into the past, to an airport from the film Casablanca...
The guards tried to celebrate in Guantánamo Bay, though it was not a happy place for them to spend Christmas, any more than the prisoners.
I was visiting the base recently and noticed a sign that pronounced the Task Force “value of the week”: it was Compassion. And then came the case of the contraband underpants...
The British government’s recent announcement that it will accept five U.K. residents back home, thereby moving Guantánamo closer to closure, was welcome news.
The rule of law - The first casualty in the war for democracy.
What advice could Britain's new Prime Minister offer his American counterpart?
Guantánamo Bay has always been a nightmare for its prisoners; it has now become one for the captors too, who finally begin to recognize what creating “the legal equivalent of outer space” has done for America’s international reputation.
The death penalty is a broken system that must be abolished.
Voting should be viewed as a human right. Indeed, it is arguably the most basic of rights.
The fight for the men in the orange jumpsuits.
For Amir Yagoub, extraordinary rendition has come full circle, from the British colonial powers’ treatment of his great-grandfather more than a century ago to his own predicament at the hands of the American authorities today.
Howard Neal is on death row in Mississippi. He has been there for more than a quarter of a century.
The plight of the family of Mohamed Amin, a Mauritanian imprisoned in Guantánamo.
The Foreign Affairs Select Committee relies on the dubious evidence of the U.S. military to falsely brand British Guantánamo detainees a threat to public safety.
Despite various bright moments in the past year, in 2006 the cause of human rights continued to be undercut by the very countries that should be leading the way. It is difficult for a human rights violator to be an effective advocate for human rights human decency.
Clive Stafford Smith on the lessons British politicians can learn from America.
The story of Willie Manning, who remains in the Mississippi death row cell where he has been for more than four thousand days.
A new U.S. Army Field Manual published last month banned water-boarding as ‘cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment’, but the Bush Administration continues to find 'torture by music' attractive.
All world leaders should take their cue from Pakistan’s self-appointed president, General Pervez Musharraf.
Sami al Hajj, the Al Jazeera journalist in Guantánamo Bay
The Bush administration is using cheap tricks to justify an outrageous assault on the US justice system.
The Guantánamo military commission: commission or con-mission? It was designed to con the world into thinking the military respected due process...
Pakistan is about to execute a Briton on flimsy charges. Its president is under pressure to confirm the sentence, purely for political reasons.
secret prisons map
A summary of the litigation Reprieve is conducting on behalf of Binyam Mohamed and others in the US against Jeppeson Dataplan.
The US military has kicked the journalists out of Guantánamo Bay to stop the world from finding out it is "cracking down" on its prisoners.
The US military stands accused of 'desecrating' the bodies of Guantánamo's suicide prisoners.
He is no terrorist. They did not ask him about the charges. They wanted only to turn him into an informer.
Few people are as powerless as Mohammed el Gharani – except, perhaps, the many kids in Guantánamo Bay who do not even have lawyers. The question, of course, is what you are going to do about it.
A US jury took the moral high road by refusing to impose the death penalty on Zacarias Moussaoui.
The consideration applied to euthanising animals is sadly lacking in the agonising process of lethal injection.
With over a quarter of Guantanámo's prisoners slated for release, where will they go?
Far from being a terrorist, Moazzam Begg's principles actually exemplify that for which we should all be fighting.
Clive Stafford Smith writes an article in the Socialist Lawyer, March 2006 calling for the release of the remaining eight Briton's still held in Guantánamo Bay.
Blair and the Guantanamo 8 - the struggle of Reprieve to free the British residents languishing outside the law.
The latest terrorism bill holds that you will be a criminal if you 'glorify' acts of terrorism -as one of the actors in Michael Winterbottom's award-winning film discovered at Luton Airport.
Michael Winterbottom's film may be the only inquiry that Guantánamo ever gets.
The child and the kangaroo court - the internment of Omar Khadr
The 'last hope' law office has been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Guantanamo and the H-Blocks - learning the wrong lessons from the history of the hunger strike.
Ticking bombs and lost morals. The real issue is not whether torture should be used, but why we are talking about it in the twenty-first century?
The story of how a mother reached out to her son's killer to save him from the death penalty.
In praise of Reprieve's often unpopular death row interns.
Much has been made – and rightly so – of the catastrophic consequences of President George W. Bush’s tactics in his War on Terror.
Its like the “Mafia Protocol”, the omertà or Code of Silence: if the Americans admit to torture, but object to anyone mentioning it, the British are apparently required to keep quiet...
Clive Stafford Smith tries to make sense of the rendition merry-go-round.
The myths and facts of the death penalty: religion.
Instead of threatening a new system of secret courts, the British government must respond to the unprecedented wrongdoing of the 'War on Terror' years by keeping the legal system open and transparent.
It’s ten years since the first detainees arrived at Guantánamo Bay. To give some sort of perspective, that’s almost as long as the ipod and the Euro have been around.
After finally being moved to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, following out-of-control riots in Kisangani, Joshua French and his friend, Tjostolv ‘Mike’ Moland, have written a report to share and highlight the horrors of their first weeks in the new location.
The Chinese government never wanted anyone to know about Akmal Shaikh. They wanted him to remain one of the nameless thousands executed each year for crimes ranging from corruption to destroying cultural artefacts.
Last month a Superior Court judge ruled California’s revised lethal injection protocol to be invalid on the grounds that the state failed to adequately consider switching to use of a single drug.
Over the past few days I have spent a lot of time waiting to go to hearings in district courts in Indonesia, where death sentences are still regularly handed out. Outside the cell where the prisoners were waiting for their hearings, tiny little children and their mothers wait patiently in the heat, eyeing the bars anxiously.
What is your most terrible nightmare? Is it worse than being trapped in a distant black hole, in an unknown country, unable to contact your family?
Almost eight years ago, the British detained two men in Iraq. They were Yunus Rahmatullah and Amanatullah Ali, although their names would remain secret for a long time.
Last Friday, lawyers representing the victims of CIA drone attacks wrote to the US Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, to inform him that we were going to bring him to justice for his complicity in the illegal killing of Pakistan citizens.
On Thursday, after countless official denials, thelocation of the CIA's secret prison in Romania was revealed.
As parliamentary elections begin in Egypt, Reprieve's Life After Guantanamo team is working against the clock for the luckless Egyptian ex-Guantanamo prisoner Adel al-Gazzar, now re-imprisoned in Cairo.
The Big Give 2011
I stepped inside the Royal Courts of Justice for the first time, about six months ago to hear the case of Yunus Rahmatullah.
This week I visited Shaker Aamer, the last remaining British resident being held in Guantánamo Bay.
Bread and butter. These are not the exciting items on my shopping list. They are definitely not as exciting as the All Saints jacket I really want or the red dress I was eyeing up for Reprieve's annual fundraiser on 10 November.
What we hoped would be an easy and enjoyable way to make new friends for Reprieve ended up in a labyrinthine and often fractious, journey around the malls and back streets of Hong Kong.
Last month I spent time with Khadidja al Saadi, a 19-year-old girl who MI6 and CIA rendered back to Gaddadfi's regime when she was 14. Khadidja's story, and the UK's shameful role in it, only emerged in the last few months, and only because Libyan rebels found the smoking gun in Moussa Koussa's office.
With Texas Governor Rick Perry, who holds the distinction of having presided over the highest number of executions of any governor of any state since 1976, making waves in the Republican Presidential race, it’s time to remind ourselves about the death penalty in Texas.
Back in May, when the US House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year of 2012, I wrote to my state Senator, Mike Johanns of Nebraska. Turns out he has the wrong end of the stick when it comes to the NDAA.
Police in Montgomery County, Texas, have deployed their first armed drones. The first thing I thought on reading this was, frankly, “Uh-oh.”
I am just back from Tripoli, where – amidst raucous celebrations about the end of war and dictatorship – I was part of a team investigating the cases of two families kidnapped by CIA and MI6 and sent to Gaddafi’s torture chambers.
For the past two days, I have been attending a conference in Hong Kong, from where I am writing. It feels like a break from work, to be honest, as normally when I am abroad the day is spent rushing from one meeting to the next, or desperately writing memos.
Last Friday, I took part in an unusual meeting in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.
It is generally considered a very bad career move to cry at work. Which is, I suppose, why I rarely do it. But when I learned that Sheraz Shah had died of heart failure in Pakistani custody, I did cry. In front of all my colleagues.
Five days after Manuel Valle’s execution, a letter addressed to Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski arrived at his office. Manuel had already been executed by lethal injection on 28 Sept 2011.
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.
On Monday night a team from Reprieve went to see Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London.
“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...
"What was a science-fiction scenario not much more than a decade ago has become today’s news.”
This year, both Ohio and California have issued two bills replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment without parole.
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.
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.
In 2005 Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were arrested in Bali, Indonesia and have since admitted that they attempted to traffic drugs to Australia.
Marge Meakins was one of the closest pen friends of Mark Ströman, who was executed on July 20th, 2011 in Texas for hate crimes committed in the wake of 9/11. Marge was 78 years old and couldn't cope with the shock: soon after the loss of her friend, she died of a massive heart attack.
So the State of Florida executed Manuel Valle. At Reprieve, for the past few weeks we have been trying to help his Florida lawyers, albeit from far away.
The three decades Manuel Valle has spent on death row in Florida are set to dwindle to their final minutes this afternoon.
On September 14 2011, Reprieve hosted a conference in Tunis bringing together interested groups from all the major political parties in Tunisia as well as a broad spectrum of civil society groups.
Ariane Adam writes about attending the London vigil on the night of Troy Davis' execution.
Amid all the condemnation of the appalling execution of Troy Davis last night, it is important to remember that Europe too has been complicit in US lethal injections, and will be again unless our representatives act. If you want to help, please write to your MEP to ask them to back action on EU-wide export controls on drugs which can be used in executions.
After almost one year, Kenyan human rights defender Al-Amin Kimathi has been released from prison in Kampala, and reunited with his family in Kenya. Al-Amin is a hero.
Reprieve is developing industry-specific corporate social responsibility principles regarding execution drug manufacture.
What if you had been present at a murder, and the guy you were with actually admitted to pulling the trigger? And the same guy, who pleaded guilty to personally shooting the two victims, was given a life sentence? Bizarrely, you can still be sentenced to death – as was the case with Steven Woods, whose execution last week marked the 235th authorized by Governor Perry.
Linda Carty is a British grandmother facing execution. She loves to read and was very pleased to receive books from Reprieve supporters when we posted a request on our website earlier this year. Here is her current 'wish list'.
On November 9th, unless a court intervenes, Hank Skinner will die in Texas, like hundreds before him, with toxic chemicals being pumped through his veins. The same Hank Skinner claims to be innocent of the murders for which he was convicted and condemned, and what’s more, he says that he can prove it: a number of items recovered from the crime scene have never been tested for DNA, and he says that testing will show that someone else was there.
The revelations from Libya show just how far we are from touching the bottom of British complicity in rendition and torture. For anyone who had hoped that, 10 years on from the catastrophic attacks on the United States which kicked off the "war on terror" we might be starting to come to terms with the abuses carried out in our name and put them behind us, the depressing news is that we seem to be further than ever from doing so.
Paper trail casts light not only on destinations and planes, but on the finance and logistics of the renditions programme
Today it was reported that prisoners at Guantanamo may be allowed visits from members of their families. Yet I am not sure how many our clients would want their family members to see them there. To see the pain from the physical and psychological abuse that they have endured. To see what the war on terror has done to them.
A bill that could have potentially saved hundreds of lives, as well as the American Government billions, was regrettably prevented from moving forwards due to a ‘lack of support’ in the Legislature on Thursday.
When I first went to see Ahmed, in early 2005, the soldiers at Guantánamo warned me that he was one of the very worst: a bitter terrorist; Osama bin Laden's general, his main man. I was intrigued.
A couple of months ago, on 18 June 2011, Ruyati binti Sapubi, an Indonesian migrant worker, was beheaded in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of murdering her Saudi employer. Riyadh carried out the execution by sword without notifying the Indonesian Embassy, denying it the chance to take action.
A new study gives us the truest picture yet – in contrast to the CIA's own account – of drones' grim toll of 'collateral damage'
Manuel Valle, a Reprieve assisted prisoner who has been waiting on death row for an incredible 33 years, may be executed on September 1st, when a stay expires. He would be Florida’s first execution with pentobarbital, a drug which has led to botched executions at least twice and whose manufacturer opposes its use in executions.
Tineke Harris reflects on the fate of Naheem and Rehan, two young British men who have been awaiting trial in a Pakistani prison for over seven years now after being tortured by police, and who are facing the death penalty.
Reprieve announced yesterday that we would not be taking part in the government's inquiry into collusion in torture and rendition by British security services.
A humbling story of one man's battle to survive in a Ugandan prison.
Chris Chang writes to the Mark Stroman team from an airport lounge in Texas.
What makes someone a hero? Judging by the heroes in our popular culture, such as Rambo, General Schwarzkopf or even Superman, the answer would seem to be that a hero is someone who is stronger than everyone else, who obliterates all of his enemies through violence, and who would never just take an insult, or injury to a loved one, without exacting revenge.
Until last night, when Mark Ströman was executed in Texas at around 3am UK time, I had managed to avoid ever having to deal with one of the prisoners we assist actually being executed.
The victim of a post-9/11 ‘hate crime’ will today ask a federal court to order the Governor of Texas to comply with the much-lauded Texas Victims’ Bill of Rights, hours before his attacker is due to die.
Last week saw one of those little-noticed coincidences in British politics: as one inquiry into a very public scandal came struggling into the world, the slow death of another began.
The top news in the last couple of weeks has been that Lundbeck, the manufacturer of Nembutal (the drug which many states in the US now use for executions), has introduced strict controls to prevent unauthorised sales of the drug for use in executions.
A man who survived being shot in the face in 2001 is to sue Texas Governor Rick Perry and other officials is today demanding respect for his rights as a victim of violent crime. Rais Bhuiyan is expected to file the suit at Travis County Courthouse, Austin, TX, at 10 a.m. local time.
The Guardian reports today on a Supreme Court judgement which has gone against MI5's attempts to cover up evidence that Guantánamo detainees had been tortured.
A recently published study on the cost of capital cases in California, conducted over three years by US 9th Circuit Judge Arthur L. Alarcon and Loyola Law School professor Paula M. Mitchell, reveals that taxpayers have spent roughly $4 billion to fund the death penalty since reinstating it in 1978.
US drones strikes have caused devastation to innumerable families in the tribal areas of Pakistan by targeting innocents and causing destruction.
The ECtHR has today decided that an ECHR jurisdictional link existed between the United Kingdom and individuals killed in the course of security operations carried out by British soldiers
Hot on the heels of news that the US is providing Uganda and Burundi with Raven surveillance drones to support their operations in Somalia, the Washington Post reported yesterday that the first drone strike in Somalia allegedly injured two al-Shabab militants last week. As so often with drone reporting, no names were furnished.
Lush staged their first ever Festival last week in Dorset, England, inviting their employees, Reprieve and other charities to promote key issues surrounding human rights and fair trials around the world. Reprieve took the opportunity to use the replica death row cell we once placed in the courtyard at St. Martin-in-the-Fields to highlight the case of British grandmother Linda Carty, currently facing execution in Texas.
A couple of weeks ago the German Vice Chancellor Philipp Rösler refused to supply lethal injection drugs when his US counterpart Gary Locke kindly asked him.
As of this month in India, it is a matter of judicial discretion as to whether a person facing a successive drug conviction will be put to death.
Recently Iran has elected to pick up the famously unwieldy sword of reciprocity and shield of adherence to mutually agreed international norms and called for the US to unconditionally release its national Shahrzad Mir-Gholikan, who was convicted in 2009 of attempting to export night-vision goggles to Iran.
Uganda’s anti-gay bill has been in the offing for some time but the Ugandan Parliament adjourned last month without passing it.
Updates from the case of Alan Shandrake in Singapore, Jared Lee Loughner in Arizona and some news that deserves much, much more attention that it's getting. Any topics you want to know more about? Facebook or tweet Reprieve and let us know...
Pharmaceutical company Lundbeck – best known these days for supplying drugs used in the execution of prisoners in the US - is apparently looking for a new public relations manager
Clive Stafford Smith is among those to have received correspondence from the non-existent Mrs E Adams of 10 Downing St - of Have I Got News For You and BBC News fame...
An Afghan detainee in Guantánamo Bay has died in what the US is calling an “apparent suicide”. He is the eighth person to die and one of the last to enter Guantanamo since its opening.
Cause for cheer in Connecticut but bad news from Bahrain in the latest installment of all the recent death penalty news from around the globe...
Early reports of President Obama’s shake-up of his defence and security team suggest it will be good news for the likes of Predator manufacturer General Atomics and bad news for anyone who’s not a fan of drone strikes.
Some legislators in North Carolina are trying to repeal the ground breaking Racial Justice Act. Act now to help prevent them from doing so...
A round-up of all the goings on in capital punishment across the globe.
US officials now admit that the CIA relies on proxy detention in lieu of the Bush-era secret prison regime. Congressmen are wringing their hands, but for the wrong reasons.
Famous for dismissing, out of hand, capital cases that demonstrate even the most blatant miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court of the United States has granted three stays of execution in the last few weeks. What is the message coming from on high?
AP recently reported on how people are still being held by the US military in secret prisons across Afghanistan.
“But, how do they justify that?” This was the question posed by a rather stricken law student after she had watched Love Lived on Death Row, about capital punishment in the USA.
Cleve Foster is set to die today in Texas with a drug manufactured by Danish company Lundbeck. Watch Maya Foa explain the vital decision Reprieve is imploring manufacturer Lundbeck to make.
Sometime in early 2002, the higher-ups at Guantánamo Bay decided to bring SERE instructors in to train interrogators stationed there. The aim was to teach them methods that could ‘break’ the detainees.
Despite the lead prosecutor on Daniel Cook’s case now saying that he would not have sought the death penalty had he known about the abuse and mental illness in his past, Daniel is scheduled to be killed on April 5th using experimental drugs.
Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman needed a really good lawyer. Prosecutors claimed to have a mountain of physical evidence and powerful eyewitness testimony against him in a murder case. And they were seeking the death penalty.
In North Carolina the state Supreme Court was recently asked to consider whether or not a judge was correct to order state officials to revamp the protocol for executions in that state.
Linda is a British grandmother facing execution in Texas. She loves to read and was very pleased to receive books from Reprieve supporters when we posted a 'wish list' on our website earlier this year.
With the uprising escalating, Reprieve client Sharif Mobley watched similar unrest unfold within Sana'a Central Prison.
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and the Ministry of National Defense (MND) have formally apologised to the family of former air force private Chiang Kuo-ching for their son's wrongful execution.
John B. Bellinger III has spoken out on the need for the US to comply with the International Court of Justice’s ruling on its obligations under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
A recent change in Chinese legislation has removed 13 nonviolent economic offences from the list of 68 crimes punishable by death, and banned capital punishment for offenders over 75.
Afshaan, Nawaz and Owen of the Pakistan Police Torture Project, as well as Khalia and Paul from Reprieve’s London office attended to receive their goodies for each winning individual grants for their work with Reprieve.
After the execution of dual Dutch-Iranian national Zahra Bahrami, the Dutch government is looking to international law for a remedy, and to prevent the same mistakes being made in the future.
Sudanese national Ibrahim al Qosi, often dubbed the ‘Al Qaeda cook', has now spent over nine years in detention at Guantánamo Bay after being captured near the Pakistan-Afghan border in December 2001.
It may be the most mean-spirited thing that David Cameron has yet said since he assumed the mantle of Prime Minister: “It makes me physically ill even to contemplate having to give the vote to anyone who is in prison.”
The US Department of Justice is currently reviewing a request from thirteen states looking for the government’s help in obtaining supplies of sodium thiopental.
Afshaan and Owen felt like minor celebrities on Tuesday of last week – a member of the Vodafone Media Team came to our office in the Jewellery Quarter with a camera over his shoulder and notepad in hand to take our details for the local press.
Yesterday, the United States Southern Command issued a press release stating briefly that Awal Gul had died in Guantánamo Bay - the seventh man to do so since the prison opened.
At the end of 2010, it was reported that Cuba’s Supreme Court had lifted the death sentence on the country's only remaining death row prisoner - the Cuban-American Humberto Eladio Real.
Former prosecutor Lieutenant Governor Sheila Simon has publicly written to Governor Quinn urging him to sign into law the bill for the abolition of the death penalty in Illinois that recently passed the General Assembly.
Zahra Bahrami was hanged in Iran early on Saturday morning, following her involvement in the Ashura protests against the outcome of the 2009 presidential election.
Last Thursday the Massachusetts Supreme Court made a unanimous decision in the case of Commonwealth v Amaury Gautreaux, which finally recognised the need for a remedy in cases where foreign nationals are convicted without having the opportunity to notify and access their Consulates.
While I cringe to point readers to a blog with such a howler for a title, there’s a colloquy going on at ‘Lawfare’ that is worth checking out.
With signs written in English, the prisoners held in Guantanamo’s Camp 6 have begun a peaceful protest against their indefinite detention.
In case you didn’t already know, Vivienne Westwood has designed a one of a kind necklace for Reprieve, being sold on her website.
Be part of a grassroots movement to abolish capital punishment in Illinois, today, by contacting Governor Quinn and urging him to sign the bill repealing that most inhumane and unjust of punishments, the death penalty.
While most of us are trying to forget the excesses of the 'War on Terror', it seems some people are keen to remember them.
Adel Hakeemy has been held in Guantánamo Bay since 2002 - a letter from the outside world would let him know that he has not been forgotten.
Saifullah Paracha is 63 years old and has been held in Guantánamo Bay since 2004. Since arriving in US custody, Saifullah’s health has been devastated.
The former Foreign Secretary's position on the use of torture has become much more straightforward since he left office.
Younous has spent almost nine years imprisoned in Guantánamo - a letter from the outside world would let him know that he has not been forgotten.
Today is the ninth anniversary of Guantánamo Bay, but although many prisoners have been cleared for release for years they are still denied freedom.
Jalal Talabani has said that he will “not sign any death sentence” because he is against the death penalty.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice have likened anti-death penalty campaigners to terrorists and hostage-takers in a bid to keep State supplies of lethal injection drug secret.
Stepping off the plane onto the tarmac, we're told to enter the gates, put our bags on the ground in front of us and stand with our backs against the wire-link fence. It's my first time at Guantánamo Bay.
Beaten, fined and sentenced to death, Asia Bibi is a 45 year-old Christian mother of five and the first woman to be charged with blasphemy in Pakistan.
In a hearing due to start today Judge Kevin Fine will be asked to rule on whether the risk of executing an innocent person makes the death penalty in Texas unconstitutional.
This week’s disclosures by Wikileaks have been seen as an extended exercise in embarrassment. Yet some of the leaked cables bear positive news -- that should be shouted from the hilltops.
A summer of particularly violent unrest sparked renewed debates about capital punishment in Guatemala earlier this year. Right-wing political parties like the Libertad Democrática Renovada and Partido Patriota argued that reinstating the death penalty would act as deterrent to crime and help restore order in the troubled central American Republic.
On 16 November 2010, the International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) issued one of their very first collective statements, opposing the possible executions of three alleged child offenders, who were sentenced to death in Darfur on 21 October.
A respected British journalist has been sentenced to six weeks in prison and fined S$20,000 (£9,622) for publishing a book questioning the independence of Singapore's judiciary.
November 11th is Veterans Day and we are proud to announce that an honorable US World War II veteran just joined our campaign to help save Linda Carty's life.
Republican Party members are apparently reviewing transfers from Guantánamo to Europe, potentially blocking the Obama administration from closing the detention centre.
The US Department of Defense must learn that treating Yemen like the Wild West just ain’t gonna work.
About halfway through the Angola Prison Rodeo last Sunday, a man drove into the arena and out of his star spangled banner-emblazoned truck jumped three dogs…with live monkeys tied to their backs.
On World Day against the Death Penalty, Linda Carty talks from death row to Prospect Magazine about her faith.
MEPs from across Europe came together this week and voted overwhelmingly for an "unconditional worldwide moratorium on executions" making it clear where Europe stands as the World Day Against the Death Penalty approaches…..
As ‘World Day Against the Death Penalty’ approaches, The Gambia in Western Africa has introduced the death penalty for drug possession.
Justice John Paul Stevens says he regrets one vote during his time at the Supreme Court – his decision to uphold the death penalty in 1976.
Coffee and croissants, torture and terror. Not my usual choice of breakfast, but certainly a meal to remember…
Today is British grandmother Linda Carty's 52nd birthday. Please sing or recite Amazing Grace to help us save her life.
Executions have been halted in several US states this week, not because clemency has been secured, or a moratorium has been called. No, executions are halted because the drug used in the first stage of death by lethal injection has almost run out.
Lawyers representing Guantánamo Bay prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri have filed a petition against the Polish government, demanding an investigation into CIA torture on Polish soil.
Teresa Lewis, whom friends describe as ‘childlike’ and ‘barely capable of buying food at the shop’, has been accused of masterminding a murder plot.
Two prominent human rights workers, one of them a lawyer, were arrested this week in Uganda as part of a US-sponsored local 'security response' to bombings in Kampala over the summer.
Today William Hague pledged new commitment to human rights in British foreign policy, but will it help Reprieve clients in Pakistan?
Driving through the luscious plantations on the way up the driveway of the Louisiana State Penitentiary almost feels like entering a nice hotel complex – that is, if you can ignore the depressing concrete buildings lined with thick layers of barbed wire and the inmates working in the fields.
Over 600 clemency letters signed, over 4,000 names added to the petition, 50 personal letters written to Linda and dozens of cupcakes baked by dedicated supporters and consumed by hungry volunteers...
France has shown great humanity towards Sakineh Ashtiani in taking a stand against her execution. Will that same humanity be shown to stranded Guantanamo prisoner Nabil Hadjarab?
We were deeply saddened to learn that at 6:21pm last night, 50 year-old Holly Wood, a man with an IQ of less than 70 was executed in Alabama. He was the fourth person to die by lethal injection in that state, this year alone.
On Wednesday, a US federal appeals court ruled that victims of torture could not sue over their mistreatment while in CIA custody. While unsurprising, this finding is highly disappointing and a blow to human rights.
For the first time since the end of World War II, Japan has allowed the public to see inside Japan’s chamber of death.
Following the success of our work at Edgbaston, the Birmingham PPTP team once again stepped up to the crease at The Oval, London.
While Linda Carty dreams of breaking out of her cell, on Wednesday someone broke in to stay the night.
There are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers around the world. Yet the trial of Omar Khadr is the first instance in modern history of a government prosecuting a former child soldier for war crimes.
The AP reported yesterday that the CIA had produced new video-tapes showing the interrogations of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ramzi bin al-Shibh, whilst he was being held at a secret CIA prison in Morocco in 2002.
Iran's attempt to quell public outcry over stoning sentence falls spectacularly flat.
The extra-judicial transfer of two Kenyan nationals from Nairobi to Kampala last week shows that rendition is here to stay for East Africans.
An inmate on death row in Alabama has failed to persuade the federal appeals court to allow another appeal to be filed on his behalf after a clerical error beyond his control meant that his papers sat unopened beyond the deadline.
We’re absolutely delighted that Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar, has been shortlisted as a ‘Voluntary Sector Achiever of the Year’ by Women in Public Life Awards.
Self-declared death penalty supporters join public defenders to ask Ohio Governor Ted Strickland to spare Kevin’s life.
This week brought news of yet another Bush Administration ploy to avoid giving terror suspects a fair trial – hide them from the courts.
Proposed legislation strikes at one of the central principles of any fair judicial system.
Former North Korean Cabinet official Kwon Ho Ung, who was once chief delegate for ministerial talks with South Korea, has been executed.
Automatic imposition of the death penalty held to violate the right to life and amount to inhuman punishment.
Teenagers tend to be pigeon-holed in one of three ways: hood-wearing hooligans, self-indulgent depressives or iPhone-obsessed brats; so where do girls like Azar Bagheri fit in?
Today Japan hanged two people, in its first executions since the Democratic Party of Japan took power last September.
China may reduce the number of crimes attracting the death penalty, but will revised legislation make a significant difference to sky-high execution rates?
Yesterday a letter was sent to Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, expressing the signatories’ concern and dismay at the new government’s recent announcement that it will imminently resume execution of its death row prisoners.
Last week, the Pakistan Police Torture Team officially moved in to our new Birmingham offices, set in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter (which certainly lives up to its name) in the city centre.
Reprieve has challenged the appointment of Sir Peter Gibson as the Chair of the forthcoming inquiry into complicity in torture on the part of the intelligence services. I want to make the reasons for this very clear.
I hope media and courtroom flurries this week have reminded readers of a man the US government would rather they forget: my Guantanamo client and Algerian refugee Ahmed Belbacha.
Reprieve's client Shabbir Zaib was acquitted in February after 17 months in a Pakistani prison. In this interview with Scotland's Daily Record, he talks about how he came to be imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, and how it feels to be back home in Glasgow.
Clive will be online tomorrow afternoon to respond to your questions and comments and talk about Linda Carty.
On Thursday 8th July, Lord Faulkner asked the government in the House of Lords what representations had been made to US authorities about reprieving Linda Carty.
Last week the Alabama Supreme Court set an execution date for Holly Wood, a man who was convicted of killing his former girlfriend Ruby Lois Gosha in 1993 and sentenced to death, despite the fact that he has an approximate IQ of 59 – the score for a person of normal intelligence is around 100.
Linda Carty is an avid reader and has sent as a list of books she would like to read, so we've published the list below in case any of our supporters would like to send her one.
Two of Reprieve’s anti-torture projects have turned a corner this week.
Lush have given Reprieve a fantastic opportunity to be part of the Glastonbury festival, which starts today.
Reprieve is gathering evidence of police torture in Pakistan; read a disturbing example below.
In a small, chic art gallery in the French Quarter of New Orleans, three men stood on Saturday evening in front of a well-dressed, well-heeled crowd and told their stories.
Three minutes past midnight on June 18, Ronnie Lee Gardner was declared dead by a doctor. He was executed by a firing squad for a crime committed 25 years ago. His execution was ‘tweeted’ by the Utah Attorney General who gave the final go ahead.
Peter Cantu was sentenced to death in 1994, along with four alleged companions. When Peter was sentenced to death row, he was just 18 years old.
To commemorate the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner, the Utah Correctional Department created special coins.
An anonymous gunman appears to relish the prospect of shooting Ronnie Lee Gardner this Friday.
The prison at Guantanamo Bay is still open and a US Task Force report has now provided some public figures on the number and status of prisoners there.
A Washington, DC federal district court judge has refused to accept the U.S. government’s blanket assertion that Guantánamo prisoner Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed will not be tortured or persecuted if sent to Algeria.
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul E. Pfeifer has recently been calling for the creation of a commission to review the cases of 160 death row inmates. The question it would need to ask is simply: does this person need to be on death row?
It has emerged that Libya has executed eighteen people at the beginning of the month for “premeditated murder”.
Read the reviews of Reprieve's comedy night Laughter/Pain.
Last night ten top comedians came together to ‘stand up’ for Reprieve at London’s Lyceum Theatre strutting their stuff in front of over 1,300 supporters.
In a surprise manoeuvre, China has released specific rules as to what measures of interrogation will be permitted in order to secure admissible evidence.
Chief Medical Examiner, Paul Shrode, has been dismissed from his position within El Paso County, Texas after it was discovered that evidence he had previously provided during a death penalty trial in Ohio was found to be false and without scientific merit.
In 2009, Ghana was one of 58 states which retained the right to execute its citizens. The country has had a de facto moratorium on the death penalty since 1993, but still retains the punishment for armed robbery, treason and first degree murder.
The legal system in the US is not only racist in selecting those to put to death, but also in the recruitment of jurors for cases where death is on the table.
Win two tickets to Reprieve's comedy night by answering the following Tim Minchin trivia
Iran has been strongly urged to reconsider the death sentences passed against two people charged with being “enemies of God”. The call came from European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton who underlined that the EU is “profoundly concerned by the repeated sentencing to death in Iran of people belonging to minorities, as well as of those who were involved in the post-election protests."
Thanks to Robin for this BBC Radio 7 plug for Reprieve's Comedy Night 2010.
New allegations of abuse at a secret US-run legal black hole in Afghanistan.
Mark Arnold was due to be told his fate last week but judgment has been postponed.
When it comes to British complicity in torture and rendition, for some years the Labour Government has put up stolid, rearguard action against the truth. Those who thought of Labour as the party of human rights will, perhaps, be sad that it has taken a coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to announce an inquiry.
When is a detainee not a detainee?
American-born Anwar al-Awlaki is now on the C.I.A.’s “targeted killing” list that the C.I.A. maintains as part of their secretive drone missile strikes program.
Death row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner, who recently caused controversy over his decision to be executed by firing squad, has received support from an unlikely ally.
The California Democratic Party has decided that there are better ways to spend tax-payers money than maintaining the country’s largest death row, where a staggering 700 people currently languish.
A CIA renditions crew make an ill-fated visit to two luxury hotels in Palma de Mallorca.
The US Supreme Court is asked to decide Georgia death-penalty appeal.
Just a few of the names of those who have lived on death row in the United States...
Probably the most terrifying exercise of state power over its citizens is when an individual is executed for a crime they did not commit.
The US constitution, written in the 18th century and one of the most celebrated constitutions in the world, has been dealt a blow by the Obama Administration recently. Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that some constitutional rights should be limited -- even for American citizens.
In a surprise manoeuvre that will send shockwaves throughout the United States and specifically the medical profession, the American Board of Anaesthesiologists has finally mirrored the view of the American Medical Association by revoking the certification of members if they participate in the execution of prisoners by lethal injection.
Reprieve is giving away two tickets to our fantastic comedy night on 7th June featuring Tim Minchin, Stewart Lee and a host of other great comedy acts.
We’re absolutely delighted that Reprieve’s ‘Life after Guantanamo’ [LAG] team has been shortlisted for a 2010 Charity Award. The prestigious Charity Awards recognise and celebrate excellence in leadership and management of charities.
If I recall correctly there was speculative talk for a brief while of “prison ships” to cope with prison overcrowding in the UK. I am sure the radical proposal was only ever the result of a brainstorming session- and we all know what results they produce (remember the recent FCO memo regarding Pope Benedict’s pending visit?).
Reprieve attorney Tara Murray will tonight answer questions about her work representing Guantánamo Bay prisoners following a screening of Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo at London's Free Word Centre.
Allowing a prisoner to 'choose' the method of his own execution is a rather twisted application of human rights.
In a country where a senior cleric can boldly assert that women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes, it is saddening but not surprising, that state executions in Iran are rife.
On 23 April 2010, William Berkley was executed in the nation's busiest death penalty state, making him the sixth death by Texas this year.
The town of Leverett, Massachusetts will soon vote on a resolution which, if passed, will offer Ahmed Belbacha a second home in the US.
72% of Guantánamo prisoners whose cases have been reviewed by US courts were found to have been illegally held by the Americans.
On the 30th April, the organisation Voices for Death Row Inmates has organized a peaceful protest to show the US authorities here in the UK that people who know and understand the practical use of capital punishment do not agree with it.
Being a professional executioner is hardly a job that anybody aspires from a young age or which has a stall at undergraduate careers fairs. So, just how do you advertise the position of executioner?
The EC project 'Engaging Europe in the fight for US abolition' at Reprieve is accepting applications for an investigator.
In a bizarre turn of events Ronnie Lee Gardner may be the first death row inmate to be executed by firing squad in Utah since 1996 – if he so decides.
Accept a job at Reprieve, and you can never guess quite what each week has in store. Last week was no different.
Less than a month after the dramatic resignation of former Justice Minister Wang Ching-feng over her public refusal to sign executive orders to execute death-row prisoners, the new minister Tseng Yung-fu has reassured the international community by insisting that it is the aim of the Taiwanese government to gradually abolish the death penalty.
'An unusual choice of destination' was the verdict of the saleswoman in Waterstones where I bought my Albania travel guide last week.
China has executed one Japanese national this week and plans to execute three more.
G4S, you’re one of the world’s largest private security firms, and not long ago one of your companies hired a man with serious mental health problems, packed him off to Iraq, and gave him a rifle.
On the eve of President Obama’s self-imposed deadline for closing the military prison, only 47% of US citizens supported keeping it open. Yet just two months after the missed deadline, the number has skyrocketed to 60%.
Last Friday was a spectacular night of music at the Electric Palace in Bridport, bringing The Proclaimers, Billy Bragg, and a crowd of 400 fans together to show support for Reprieve.
Last summer I was privileged to be asked by photographer Nadia Bettaga to be photographed as part of Changing the Face of Human Rights Project. Nadia Bettega’s exhibition explores what human rights mean to the lives and stories of 60 people living in Britain today.
Amnesty International today published their annual Death Penalty Report, calling for China to end the secrecy surrounding sentencing and executions.
Japan executed 15 people in 2008 - the highest number since 1975 - and last month's government opinion poll suggests increased support for the death penalty. Does this mean the pro-death penalty camp is gaining momentum in Japan?
Imagine just for a minute that the only world you inhabit for three decades is a cell maybe five steps long and three steps wide. Days turn into weeks, weeks to months and months to years. The possibility of losing your mind and fading into oblivion is very real.
On the same day that Taiwan’s Justice Minister Wang Ching-feng boldly denounced the death penalty, the Presidential Office released a statement assuring the public that Wang must abide by the law regardless of her views.
Having been volunteering at Reprieve for two months, I hit London Fashion Week with something to talk about other than what I thought of the various creations wafting up and down the catwalks.
A Texas judge in a county that sends more inmates to death row than any other in the nation has done the unspeakable.
The European Court’s judgment of 2 March 2010, the first dealing exclusively with the death penalty and non-refoulement, severely condemned the UK for handing over two Iraqi nationals held by the British military to Iraqi authorities.
If you missed our press conference for Danny Fitzsimons on Friday you can watch it here and read about the case below.
In a radio interview, South Korean House Speaker Kim Hyung-o called upon his government to officially end the death penalty, saying "a human life is a dignified given value and right, and even the power of the state should not be able to take it away".
Reprieve’s zero dB campaign was highlighted again this week following the release of Massive Attack’s latest music promo which contains interviews with victim of music torture, Ruhal Ahmed.
John Yoo's e-mails detailing the rationale behind the "torture memos" have mysteriously disappeared from the Department of Justice's records.
The French government kindly agreed to welcome Lakhdar Boumediene to France; Lakhdar talks about his new life in this video by Amnesty International.
Clive Stafford Smith on why we should spare a thought for Linda Carty this Mother's Day.
It has been over eight years since Linda Carty has embraced her Mother or Daughter.
In a bold statement Justice Minister Wang Ching-feng said she’d rather take the place of a death row prisoner than sign one execution during her term as minister.
Three days. Only three days to film nine inspirational women in Great Britain who have accepted to support the fight we have started to save Linda Carty's life on Texas Death Row.
On 20-21st February Reprieve hosted the first Annual Death Penalty Defence Conference in Pakistan
A man has been executed in North Korea after it was discovered by security officials in late January that he had illegal possession of a mobile phone and had called a defector in South Korea to report rice prices.
Yesterday a video came to light showing Pakistani police officers torturing suspects. Our client Naheem Hussain, who has been in prison for over five years without being convicted, faced similar treatment at Dadyal police station.
A wrongly convicted man, who died while on death row in Texas in 1999, was given a posthumous pardon on Tuesday.
Charles Dean Hood, sentenced to death by a Judge who was having an affair with the prosecuting attorney, has been granted a new trial by the US Supreme Court.
European countries stepped up pressure for a global halt to the death penalty, in the context of the 4th World congress Against the Death Penalty held on February 24th-26th 2010, in Geneva.
Linda Carty, a 51 year old British national will be executed by the state of Texas within the next few months unless her appeal to the Supreme Court for a retrial is successful.
Time Magazine gave long-time death penalty attorney David Dow a platform to air his views on the capital punishment system this week.
Linda is sitting behind a glass screen on Death Row in Gatesville, Texas waiting to meet me. For a woman who has spent eight years in a condemned cell waiting to die she seems remarkably cheerful.
Linda Carty has been described as the unluckiest woman on death row. Why? Because of her state-appointed attorney Jerry Guerinot.
Reprieve/Amicus US Death Penalty Training Spring 2010
Freddie Peacock of Rochester, N.Y., was convicted of rape in 1976. Last week he became the 250th person to be exonerated by DNA testing since 1989. According to a new Innocence Project report, those 250 prisoners served 3,160 years between them, with 17 on death row.
The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections decided on Feb 12th, 2010, to sue every inmate on death row, in an effort to block any one of them from challenging the state's lethal injection procedures.
The final destination for the ‘Obama needs EU’ tour is Germany. .
Reprieve is delighted to announce a spectacular night of music magic, as two iconic British acts appear in Dorset for one night only on Friday 26th March.
Former death row inmate Juan Roberto Melendez-Coln has lived the American nightmare: He was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Florida. He gives today his testimony to the Death Penalty Study Commission in New Hampshire.
In a letter to The Journey of Hope organization, Gabriel Gonzales writes about his ill-fated life before being sent to Death Row in Texas, and describes how forgiving his own abuser has changed him.
Two countries down on our Obama needs EU! tour. We had a great welcome in Luxembourg where Moazzam’s presence appeared to calm even the more sceptical elements of the press.
According to a recently published UN report, British security and intelligence officers were often present when British citizens suspected of terrorism were interrogated by foreign powers.
North Korea executes three escapees as they attempt to flee to South Korea
Despite a dressing-down from the Obama Administration's Justice Department, Keith Olbermann pursues allegations about possible homicides at Guantánamo Bay in this clip from US television channel MSNBC.
A UN report released yesterday on the global practice of secret rendition and torture has reaffirmed that the US are not solely responsible for the mistreatment of prisoners in the so-called ‘war on terror’. Secret detention facilities have been discovered in Romania, Poland and Lithuania.
Younous Chekkouri is a Moroccan national who has spent eight agonizing years in Guantánamo Bay. He is in urgent need of assistance. Fearing torture and persecution if returned to Morocco, he desperately needs a new home, which is why Reprieve is calling on European governments to offer him protection.
I will never forget the day I watched Ismail hug his brother in Somaliland after two and a half years in Guantánamo.
In a majority vote of 7-2 the US Supreme Court sitting in Washington last week upheld the death sentence handed down against Holly Wood - a man with the IQ of a seven-year-old child.
On the 14th of January the President of Mongolia, Tsakhia Elbegdorj, commuted all death sentences to 30 year prison terms. He has also called for a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to it eventually being abolished as a form of punishment. This is a welcome development on a continent where unfortunately capital punishment remains all too prevalent.
Anna Perera’s novel Guantánamo Boy vividly depicts the horrors behind the bars of the detention facilities in Cuba – horrors that should by now be consigned to history. Sadly, they are as real as ever.
California state officials have proposed new lethal injection procedures, which if adopted, could bring to an end the four-year moratorium and result in executions being resumed by the end of the year.
"To all freedom-loving people wherever they may live." A poignant plea from the mother of Farzad Kamangar, a Kurdish Activist on Death Row. in Iran.
The execution of fifty three year old Akmal Shaikh has touched the lives of many in the United Kingdom
On January 19th 2010 the Kansas legislature will hold four days of hearings to establish whether or not to repeal the death penalty. Should this bill pass Kansas will become the third state in as many years to abolish capital punishment and the sixteenth US state to do so.
A video message from Mohammed thanking Reprieve supporters
We’ve all heard tales of celebrities and their diva-ish behaviour, and so a news story about a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother who claimed this morning that he’d been “tortured” is likely to be greeted with scepticism. When it becomes clear that this torture amounted to listening to some music, albeit for quite a long time, that scepticism would reach dizzying heights.
Yet more evidence that the maintenance of capital punishment is an untenable position has emerged via the New York Times.
Today at Guantánamo I met Samir Mukbel, one of Reprieve's Yemeni clients. I'm not allowed to say what he said at this meeting, but I can certainly tell you he bears no resemblance to the Yemeni bogeyman of recent cable news fame
According to a report by the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), 2009 had the lowest number of death sentences handed down since the death penalty was brought back in 1976. This means judges and jury members gave the death penalty to less convicted criminals in the past year, while prosecutors gave out less death sentences.
Although Iran is signatory to the UN convention on the Rights of the Child stating that capital punishment should not be imposed on persons below eighteen years of age, several young offenders in Iran are hanged each year. Benyamin Rasouli is one of the youth released after the family of the victim forgave him. He tells in an interview his story.
Over the past several days, most of Britain has been feet-up-before-the-fire, enjoying the Christmas holiday. Not so the family of Akmal Shaikh, the British prisoner who is set to die in China at 2.30am GMT on Tuesday.
Good news. Since the option of Life Without the Option of Parole has been put into place in Texas in 2005, the number of death sentences has decreased by 40 per cent. Prosecutors have been pushing for fewer death sentences and juries have become less willing to give them.
Prosecutors are too often blocking access to DNA tests that could exonerate the innocent, even in states where legislatures have specifically passed laws allowing access to testing. A reason for death row inmates to sue prosecutors.
Under a newly proposed bill - which lawmakers have indicated that they would pass before year's end- criminal penalties on homosexual acts in the East African nation will include the death penalty.
Barring a last-minute appeal, Kenneth Biros will be subjected to an inhumane experiment later today; he’ll be the first person in the US executed using a new method of lethal injection traditionally used to put down pets.
53-year-old Cecil Johnson was executed yesterday after 29 years on Tennessee’s death row. He was 24 years old when he was given a death sentence for three counts of first degree murder at a convenience store.
The BBC tackles the 40th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in the wake of The Execution of Gary Glitter.
We have already unearthed 48 prisoners on death row in the US that may potentially have European nationality claims. And this is only the beginning…
Were the two men executed in China earlier this week for their role in the milk scandal the real masterminds, or merely unfortunate scapegoats lacking the money or influence to save themselves?
Disappointed, but not surprised, was my first response to hearing President Barack Obama’s announcement on Wednesday that he would not make the January 22 deadline for closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay.
In the government's desperate commitment to cover up British complicity in torture, the drip-drip-drip of evidence seeping out continues.
After the failed attempt to execute Romell Broom last September using a 3-drug cocktail, Ohio's Department of Correction has just announced a historic decision to execute inmates with a Single Drug Lethal Injection process, which has never been used on humans before.
On 14 November over 100 people gathered at a public hearing in support of Danny Fitzsimons, the British soldier suffering from PTSD that is facing execution in Iraq.
The Brian Dugan case in the US is probably one of the best examples of the absurdity of the death penalty.
Russia has changed a great deal over the last two decades. One of the welcome changes was the introduction in 1996 of a moratorium on the death penalty.
The Italian court this week (4 November) convicted 21 CIA operatives and a US air force officer in the first successful European prosecution relating to the practice of “extraordinary rendition” or in plain English, kidnap.
Channel 4's latest faux documentary intends to shock. And it succeeds, despite a weak script and lack of any meaningful insight into failures of every legal system that executes its criminals.
When Khristian Oliver stood trial for murder in Texas 10 years ago, several jurors consulted the Bible extensively during their deliberations. Despite the court of appeals ruling that an 'important line' had been 'crossed', Oliver's appeal was dismissed and he was finally executed last week.
It would be inaccurate to characterise Democratic politicians in the US as anti-Death penalty and pro human rights: Bill Clinton interrupted his 1992 Presidential campaign to sign the death warrant of lobotomised Ricky Ray Rector when he was still Governor of Arkansas and President Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo Bay has yet to be fulfilled
Amongst all the fallout from President Obama’s Nobel Prize win, my favourite is the recent suggestion by a Chadian Minister that the Norwegians made a mistake. This seems like the kind of topsy turvy thinking from the Chadian authorities with which our client Mohammed El Gharani has become all too familiar.
Death Penalty volunteer Laura Vignoles watches the All Parliamentary Group Debate on the abolition of the death penalty.
Singer David Knoplfer and former member of the band Dire Straits has been so moved by the case of Akmal Shaikh that he is dedicating the Rabbit Song every night on his forth-coming tour to the mentally ill Briton facing execution in China.
£40,000 per juvenile on death row in Iran: cheap at twice the price?
On October 8, seven Sahrawi human rights defenders were arrested by Moroccan police at the Mohamed V Airport in Casablanca, Morocco and remain in an undisclosed location The human rights defenders were returning from a trip to Algeria where they visited Sahrawi refugee camps in the southwest of the country. The group was arrested immediately after their plane landed at the airport in Casablanca.
A new report issued by the Death Penalty Information center estimates that at least $2 billion has been spent nationwide since 1976, on costs that wouldn't have been incurred if the severest penalty were life in prison.
John Thompson spent 18 years in a Louisiana prison – including 14 on death row – for a murder he didn’t commit. Here, John shares his experiences and his views about the death penalty with Reprieve.
At long last, two High Court judges have told the Government what any sane person already knew.
David Miliband insists--again--that lofty principles require keeping just seven paragraphs on the abuse of Binyam Mohamed out of the public domain. We should rejoice that the British justices knew better.
Will Lithuania answer Obama's call and help close Guantanamo Bay?
Torturing people doesn't keep us safe. MI5 should stop making policy by anecdote and condemn those who abuse prisoners
Someone diagnosed with bipolar disorder may swing from moods of deep depression to periods of overactive, excited behaviour known as mania. Between these severe highs and lows can be stable times.
Today leaves just 100 days in Pres. Obama's deadline to close Guantánamo. Precious few prisoners have been freed, and officials murmur that they are likely to miss the deadline. What's going wrong?
Cathy Harrington's worst nightmare happened 5 years ago, when she received a call informing her that her daughter had been brutally murdered.
October 10th was the world day against the death penalty. The focus this year was on abolishing the death penalty for juveniles (aged 14 to 18). The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty was also celebrating the 20th birthday of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Four new Texas arson cases are now under scrutiny, in addition to the highly controversial Willingham case where 'debunked science' was used as evidence. Could professionals in the justice system be suffering from "tunnel vision" syndrome"?
Professor Abdul-mouti Bayoumi, a leading Muslim scholar in Egypt has called for the death penalty for those caught smuggling into the country a device allowing women to fake their virginity.
Twelve years after he was wrongly convicted for the rape and murder of two sisters, Paco Larranaga has finally been released from the notorious Bilibid prison in Manilla and is being transferred to Madrid today.
As yet, President Obama has not outlawed the use of music as a form of torture against prisoners.
In a 2-1 ruling a 6th circuit court of appeals panel said that upcoming Reynolds' execution should not proceed before a federal court considers the issues raised by the botched execution of Romell Broom. As a result Gov. Ted Strickland placed a hold on executions of 2 death row inmates.
Texas Governor Rick Perry suddenly decided to fire three board members of the state agency, whose investigation into the controversial 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham may rule that Rick Perry is the first Governor in the US to have signed the death warrant of an innocent man.
Reprieve's new database records extraordinary renditions and secret prisons worldwide.
States in the US waste millions of dollars on trials and lengthy appeals in death penalty cases. Less talked about is the additional expense of compensating people who have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, when they are finally exonerated.
A conference was held in Kigali last week to discuss the use of the death penalty in Africa, resulting in a resolution to support its abolition.
Over the years, Texas medical examiners have wrongly identified bodies, botched examinations and been forced to reconsider cases of individuals later exonerated by law enforcement. A new report warns: "These shortcomings pose a threat to the quality and credibility of forensic science practice and its service to the justice system".
Looking at history, botched executions by lethal injection are numerous. As doctors are not allowed to assist the execution team, they are also inevitable.
In India, Judges have first hand knowledge of the agony and horror that a condemned prisoner is subjected to every day. They believe that prisoners having to wait for too long should be able to seek commutation of their death penalties into life terms.
Certainly more than one, judging only by the number of concurrent testimonies from independent sources.
In a country desperately in need of organ transplants, 65% of organ donors come from death row. Could the booming transplants industry be a covert reason to justify the death penalty?
Luzira Prison is stuck with 17 juveniles sentenced to death who cannot be hanged because of their young age at the time of their offence. Some of them, now adults, have spent the last 12 years on Death Row.
Prisoners like Rommell Broom are executed with a cocktail of drugs that many vets deem inappropriate for animal euthanasia.
The Associated Press reports that an Ohio execution team failed to put condemned prisoner Romell Broom to death, after a two hour struggle to find suitable veins.
In a brilliant article, David Mc Neill reports on an innocent survivor of the Japanese death row system. Anyone who has the slightest doubt as to whether the death penalty is an unusual punishment should read it.
Harsh new laws in the semi-autonomous Aceh province include the death penalty for adultery.
Medical complicity in abusive practices is one of the most disturbing revelations from the CIA 'torture memos'.
Ministers, not low-ranking MI6 officers, should be in the dock over Britain's complicity in torture.
The Obama Administration is to impose a military review process at Bagram, but prisoners are still denied lawyers and the prison is growing.
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.
Ismail Mahmoud Mohamed is a friend and ally of the Somali President and a high-level political mover and shaker; so why is he still in Guantánamo Bay?
On Wednesday July 22nd 2009 Shaker Aamer was supposed to see his lawyer. Instead, that day Mr. Aamer 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.
Reprieve volunteer Lizzie O'Shea attends a hearing on Linda Carty's 'last chance' appeal in the New Orleans Fifth Circuit court.
A new report by Physicians for Human Rights calls for health professionals involved in torture to face investigation for unprofessional and criminal conduct.
I'm in Norway at the moment with Polly, campaigning for asylum for ex-Guantánamo prisoners.
Thailand's double execution last week is a disheartening setback on the road to abolition.
Texas has held its first ever state-sanctioned review of an execution - that of Cameron Willingham in 2004 - and may be forced to declare it has executed an innocent man.
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.
Sunday's International Day of the Disappeared reminded us that the United States have cheerfully utilized a terrorist practice in their 'War on Terror'.
It appeared the US president had stopped the use of CIA prisons, but a closer look reveals the canker at his state's heart remains.
This great piece on Bagram by Andew at Al Jazeera Doha describes the $50mn redevelopment of the prison.
Two US Supreme Court Justices claim that there is no constitutional right for the innocent not to be executed.
Polly explains what we'll be doing with funding from the UN Fund for Victims of Torture.
In future murder trials in North Carolina, judges will be able to prevent prosecutors from pursuing the death penalty if they find a historical precedent of racial bias in the use of the death penalty.
Marc Callcutt visits two new Reprieve clients in the United Arab Emirates.
We have created a petition for people to sign to ensure that evidence obtained by torture is excluded from the trial of Naheem and Rehan.
Why this play is still as important and relevant as it was during the dark days of the Bush administration.
The FAC's report calls for historical guidance for intelligence officers to be released into the public domain as soon as possible...
Indignant government rhetoric on torture rings hollow. The evidence tells a very different story.
We are all hugely relieved that Samantha Orobator is now back in the UK and I hope that she will be released as soon as possible.
We're here in Nairobi on the eve of the OGOA summit, when the Secretary of State, HiIllary Clinton, is slated to meet various African heads of state. Some of those leaders still have nationals in Guantanamo, including President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the leader of the government of Somalia.
Alex Harpe on the 1000th execution by lethal injection in the United States.
The mysterious case of Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni.
Reprieve's Fellow in Pakistan Sultana Noon reports on her last attempt to attend a hearing for Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman, who have been in prison for 5 years without trial.
We are very excited – according to the Times List, our Chair Lord Bingham and our Director Clive Stafford Smith are numbers 4 and 6 respectively on the list of the top 100 most powerful and influential lawyers practising in Britain today.
Clive discusses the implications of the British justice system's new regime of secrecy on the Guardian's 'Comment is free' podcast.
As a Reprieve Fellow in Texas, I work with prisoners who - like Willie Earl Pondexter, Jr. - are sentenced to death on the sole basis of 'future-dangerousness'.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services held a hearing on 07 July 2009 to determine the legal difficulties with continuing the military commissions held at Guantánamo Bay. I've listed some of the most alarming aspects here.
Are President Obama's Military Commissions, due to start this week, really any different from those designed by the Bush Administration?
I've spent the week in Lisbon, discussing how Portugal might offer more ex-Guantánamo prisoners a home.
I don't much care if British officials are prosecuted for torture, I just want politicians to do all they can to stop it happening again.
Mohammed el Gharani says thank you to the staff at Reprieve and all the people that have supported him during his time imprisoned in Guantanamo. Mohammed is finally free and with his family in Chad.
Listen to Libby Purves interview Claire Phillips about her exhibition, The Human Face of the Death Penalty, on BBC Radio 4's Midweek.
Interviewing Mohammed el Gharani in Chad threw up some logistical challenges for Al Jazeera's film crew.
Safe in Chad after his ordeal at Guantánamo, Mohammed el Gharani is finally free to enjoy some of the simple adolescent pleasures of which he was robbed.
For Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman, the torment of being held for years without trial on Pakistan's death row has caused more damage than any beating.
We are thrilled to announce that zero dB will be officially launched tomorrow on MySpace.
President Obama told us that US prisoner abuse has stopped. Well, it hasn’t.
The United States needs to understand how yet another unsatisfactorily explained death in its most infamous prison is going to be interpreted in the Muslim world.
The revelations in the Guardian concerning the Government’s post-9/11 torture policy are shocking. A full investigation must be carried out.
Mohammed el Gharani waits in a Chad police station to be reunited with his family.
David Miliband has again stonewalled allegations that Britain was complicit in Binyam Mohamed's torture. What is he hiding?
For you, the phrase "head-banging music" might evoke hazy student nights in the college bar. For Binyam Mohamed, the British resident recently returned from Guantánamo to the U.K., it brings back darker memories.
In June 2009, Ahmed Ghailani became the first Guantánamo prisoner to be tried in a federal court.
Reprieve and iceandfire present a viral video promoting our documentary play Rendition Monologues.
Celebrations of a new civil liberties hero were sadly premature. Four months on, dozens of innocents are still in prison.
Remembering the life of the heroic founder of Jurors for Justice.
The release of "top secret" torture memos by the US is welcome. But they raise far more questions than they answer and the picture remains incomplete.
Sultana Noon meets the grandmother of Rehan Zaman, who speaks about Naheem and Rehan's imprisonment.
Sultana Noon meets the nephew of Rehan Zaman, who speaks about his uncle's imprisonment.
Sultana Noon, Reprieve's Fellow in Pakistan, reports from Mirpur Prison, where she is visiting Naheem Hussein and Rehan Zaman.
Marc Callcutt thanks members of the public for supporting Reprieve's campaign for Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman.
Marc Callcutt meets Vakaas Hussain, who thanks supporters for all that they have done to help his brother.
Marc Callcutt asks members of the public to show their support for Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman.
Marc Callcutt launches Reprieve's campaign for Naheem and Rehan Zaman with a press conference to reveal their plight.
Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve, the organisation which specialises in providing legal support for defending human rights, especially Death Row cases in the USA, shares his Private Passions with Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3.
How Binyam is coping with his first few days of freedom.
President Obama has decided to deny Bagram's prisoners their rights.
The British and America governments are under pressure over the alleged torture of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident of Guantánamo Bay. His lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, says although evidence of torture remains secret, the judges posed some awkward questions.
Sultana Noon meets a new client in Pakistan
Reprieve volunteer James Cross visits the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary
Reprieve Fellow Frances Bourliot on how easily an incorrect identification can cause a wrongful conviction.
Sanity prevails in the Hamdan v Rumsfeld Supreme Court ruling.
Clive Stafford Smith helps launch a new documentary about Sami al Hajj, an al-Jazeera cameraman imprisoned in Guantánamo.
Clive Stafford Smith's ninth visit to Guantánamo Bay.
Binyam Mohamed addresses ten questions to Senator John McCain about the realities of enforcing the McCain Amendment.
An Islamabad-based human rights charity has today called on Pakistan’s Government to demand the adoption of a UN resolution requiring that the USA stops carrying out drone strikes in its country.
Two Libyans who were rendered by Britain into the hands of the Gaddafi regime in 2004 are to sue Sir Mark Allen, the former MI6 director who apparently played a central role in organising the operation.
An Algerian citizen who was detained for eight years in Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial has been imprisoned again, after the US authorities returned him to Algeria despite his pleas that he would face arbitrary detention there.
Reprieve today welcomes the Government's announcement that it will not go ahead with the flawed Gibson Inquiry, and will set up a new inquiry once police investigations into UK collusion in Libya renditions have concluded.
Today, British Police announced that they intend to investigate UK complicity in the rendition of Gaddafi's opponents back to pre-revolutionary Libya. A few hours ago, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, a Gaddafi opponent who was rendered back to Libya in 2004 - along with his pregnant wife - by British agents and the CIA, provided the following response...
Response to today's joint statement by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Metropolitan Police on investigations into UK complicity in the torture of detainees.
11 January 2012 will mark the 10-year anniversary of the opening of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Human rights groups, including Reprieve, have today criticised the Government's Detainee Inquiry as 'deficient' and lacking in the necessary powers to get to the truth about Britain's involvement in torture and rendition.
A coalition of medical professionals from around the world has today called on pharmaceuticals company Hospira to prevent their products from being used in US executions.
The British Government has demanded the return of a prisoner originally detained by UK forces from the US-run Bagram prison in Afghanistan, where he has been held without charge or trial for nearly eight years.
The European Commission today announced that it is blocking the export of certain key lethal injection drugs which are widely used in US executions.
Just days after new details emerged of a secret CIA prison in Romania used to torture terrorism suspects, a report by two international human rights organisations shows that European countries are continuing to suppress evidence of their role in the USA’s notorious rendition programme.
Head of the Tripoli Military Council and the former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group Abdel Hakim Belhadj is taking legal action against The UK Government and its security forces for what he claims is their part in the illegal rendition and barbaric treatment of both himself and his pregnant wife in March 2004.
Lawyers for the son of a victim of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan have written to the British Foreign Secretary, asking him to clarify what the UK’s policy is on providing intelligence used by the US in its ‘targeted killing’ campaign.
Maya Foa, representing the UK legal NGO Reprieve, has come to India urgently to warn pharmaceutical companies of deceptive practices being used to implicate them in lethal injections in America.
The British government was today ordered by the Court of Appeal to release a prisoner held without charge or trial since 2004 in the notorious US military prison at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan.
Maya Foa, representing the UK legal charity Reprieve, has come to India urgently to warn pharmaceutical companies of deceptive practices being used to implicate them in lethal injections in America.
An Islamabad human rights lawyer has written to the US Ambassador to Pakistan, asking him to either explain his role in a CIA drone strike which killed two children or face legal action over his part in the murder.
International aviation organisation Eurocontrol is refusing to release crucial evidence relating to the CIA’s illegal renditions programme, despite requests to do so by legal action charity Reprieve and their partners Access Info Europe.
A British national who has been held since 2009 in a prison in Democratic Republic of Congo is facing new threats to his life following a prisoners’ rebellion which has led to a stand-off with DRC military forces.
A Swiss-Indian pharmaceutical company is demanding that the US state of Nebraska returns drugs which it says were ‘wrongfully diverted’ there to be used in lethal injections.
Egypt’s military authorities yesterday unexpectedly fast-tracked court proceedings for an ex-Guantánamo detainee who was imprisoned on his return home to Egypt in June.
Ten years ago today Shaker Aamer was detained in Afghanistan. He was subsequently sold for a bounty to US forces, tortured in Bagram Air Force Base and Kandahar (with British agents as witnesses), before being transferred to Guantánamo Bay for additional abuse.
Lawyers representing a prisoner held illegally at the US military prison at Bagram Airbase will today seek to force the British Government to secure his release.
The catastrophic case of Linda Carty, a British grandmother now facing imminent execution in Texas, is to be featured in a new television documentary film at 8pm on Monday 28th November on the UK's Channel 4.
The Pakistani Government is tomorrow (22 November) expected to report back to a court on the illegal detention of seven of its nationals at a US prison in Afghanistan.
A family of six which was rendered back to Gaddafi’s Libya by UK and US intelligence services has filed a criminal complaint with the Metropolitan Police over their ordeal.
Foreign Secretary William Hague is today expected to defend proposals by the UK Government, set out in the Justice and Security Green Paper, which would increase the use of secret proceedings in British courts, and close off the legal route by which evidence of British complicity in torture first came to light.
Legal action charity Reprieve will tonight (Thursday) host London's star-studded House of Trivia in support of our vital work on death rows and in Guantánamo Bay.
A 16-year-old was last week killed along with his 12-year-old cousin by a CIA drone strike, just days after visiting Islamabad with his father for dialogue concerning the agency’s unmanned attack aircraft in the Pakistan border region.
Global pharmaceutical firm, Hospira, is now the only company supplying US execution chambers with the paralysis drug used in lethal injections. Pancuronium bromide is the second drug in the lethal injection ‘cocktail’ and serves to paralyse the prisoner before the lethal dose of potassium chloride is administered.
A Guantánamo detainee is today filing a complaint against Lithuania in the European Court of Human Rights, over its role in facilitating his extraordinary rendition and hosting the CIA ‘black site’ in which he was held.
Legal action charity Reprieve and Pakistan’s Foundation for Fundamental Rights will tomorrow (Friday) host the Waziristan Grand Jirga (council) in Islamabad, in order to open an international dialogue on the CIA’s use of drones in Pakistan.
A Pakistani judge has ordered the country’s Government to visit a US prison in Afghanistan in order to interview the seven Pakistani nationals illegally detained there – including one prisoner originally captured by UK forces in 2004.
History repeated itself today, as the Lithuanian prosecutor chose, late on a Friday afternoon, to announce that he would not be reopening his curtailed investigation into the presence of CIA prison sites on Lithuanian territory.
Today the Coalition Government published a Justice and Security Green Paper proposing major reforms to how government and intelligence agents supply evidence to British courts. The proposals are highly dangerous in terms of how they affect the British legal system and the position of victims of torture and abuse.
An Israeli pharmaceutical company has become the latest firm to halt the manufacture of drugs used in executions in the USA.
A Florida State Representative is calling for the introduction of death by firing squad to avoid legal challenges to the use of lethal injection in executions.
New documents exposing well-disguised CIA flights through Europe demonstrate the need for more robust inquiries into EU states’ complicity in the CIA’s secret prisons programme.
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An opponent of Colonel Gaddafi’s regime who was ‘rendered’ along with his wife and four young children to Libya by British security services in 2004 has begun legal action against the UK Government over its role in his ordeal.
One year after the filing of an urgent petition on behalf of seven Pakistani citizens illegally imprisoned by the US military, Pakistan's judiciary has been accused of deliberately dragging its feet in order to avoid dealing with the case.
Legal action charity Reprieve is demanding that Lithuanian authorities revive their failed inquiry into CIA ‘black sites’ after a Freedom of Information request – made in conjunction with Access Info Europe – uncovered a mysterious flight into the country’s capital during the relevant period.
A US Supreme Court justice has described the justifications for last night's execution of Cuban national Manuel Valle in Florida as 'close to non-existent', noting the 'cruelty' inherent in the prisoner's three-decade ordeal.
Manuel Valle faces execution this afternoon (4pm EST), despite serious concerns raised by his lawyers over the ‘arbitrary’ signing of his death warrant by Governor Rick Scott.
Legal action charity Reprieve today highlights five key reasons that the execution of Manuel Valle – scheduled to take place tomorrow (September 28th) – should not go ahead.
A leading neurologist who uses drugs produced by pharmaceutical firm Lundbeck in his work has taken legal action to prevent their use in lethal injections – notably in the execution of a Cuban prisoner who is set to die in Florida on Wednesday.
The International Commission against the Death Penalty has called on the state of Florida to stop the execution of Manuel Valle and grant him a transparent and meaningful clemency procedure.
A 61-year-old Cuban national with close ties to Spain is set to die at 4pm on September 28 after the state of Florida rescheduled his execution despite emerging national and international concerns about the case.
Legal action charity Reprieve is today bringing together key policymakers and members of civil society to discuss Tunisia’s role in bringing about the release of its citizens from Guantánamo Bay.
The Ugandan government should disclose any evidence it claims to have against the detained Kenyan human rights defender Al-Amin Kimathi or release him, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Reprieve and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project said today.
The treatment of a man who has been held for over three decades on death row in the US and is now facing execution in a matter of days would be considered ‘inhuman’, ‘degrading’ or even ‘torture’ in a swathe of other jurisdictions around the world, legal action charity Reprieve can reveal.
Cuban national Manuel Valle, who is currently facing execution in Florida, has been granted a further two day stay to allow consideration of the issue of clemency, following a last minute appeal by his lawyers. However, concerns have been raised that any hearing he does receive may have already been hopelessly prejudiced in the light of comments from the Florida Attorney General’s office.
Reprieve calls on medical professionals to help debunk the myth of 'humane' executions by lethal injection
A trove of new information about the international renditions business has today been unveiled by legal action charity Reprieve.
British Members of Parliament have today joined the European Union and Catholic bishops in calls to stop the execution of Cuban national Manuel Valle from going ahead in Florida on September 6.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has urged the US to prevent the impending execution of Manuel Valle in Florida from going ahead.
Today Virginia is set to execute for the first time using an untested new lethal injection drug, in a move which could soon be followed by Florida unless the state’s Supreme Court overturns the ruling of a lower court.
Florida’s plan to carry out an ‘experimental’ execution using discredited new drugs is set to be challenged in the state Supreme Court.
The Government of Serbia has this week appealed to a US court to spare the life of one of its citizens, Avram Nika, currently facing execution in Nevada.
Se ha solicitado la intervención urgente de España en el caso de un ciudadano de posible nacionalidad española quien tendrá que enfrentarse en menos de un mes a la pena de muerte en Florida, ya que se le ha sido negada por proceso.
Spain is being urged to intervene in the case of a possible Spanish national who is facing the death penalty in Florida in less than a month, having been denied due process.
The rejection by a Florida judge of an appeal against the use of a new and untested execution drug could see a return to botched executions in the state, according to evidence from experts in the US.
Ten leading human rights organisations, along with victims of torture and their lawyers, have today withdrawn from the British Government's Detainee Inquiry on the grounds that it cannot get to the truth about torture.
The US Supreme Court has refused a request by the state of Florida to lift a stay of execution for Manuel Valle, a Cuban citizen with close ties to Spain, ahead of this week's ruling on the controversial new execution drug with which the state plans to kill him.
Reprieve is calling on Egypt’s Military Prosecutor to grant an immediate amnesty to Adel Al-Gazzar, a former Red Crescent volunteer erroneously held in Guantánamo for eight years and subsequently arrested on returning home to Egypt in June.
Experimental execution drug set to be used for first time in three US states
Florida has stayed the execution of Manuel Valle to allow a hearing on whether the use of a new execution drug will cause him unnecessary pain, in violation of the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Ex-Guantánamo prisoner arrested in Egypt over unlawful Mubarak-era 'conviction' faces further abuses
Mark Stroman was executed last night in Huntsville, Texas, after the state refused to allow his surviving victim to see him in order to forgive him in person.
US prison to videotape ‘experimental’ execution
Texas Governor Rick Perry faces calls to intervene to sort out the legal chaos surrounding today's scheduled execution of Mark Stroman in Huntsville, Texas.
One of twelve jurors who served in the trial of Mark Stroman in 2002 has made a last-minute appeal to the Governor of Texas to spare his life.
Legal action charity Reprieve and Islamabad human rights lawyer Shahzad Akbar today announce the publication of the first large array of photographs depicting the devastating impact of US unmanned aircraft ('drone') attacks on innocent civilians in Pakistan.
On Thursday 21 July, legal action charity Reprieve will be discussing their drones project alongside a new exhibition of photos and videos showing the devastation unleashed in Pakistan by the CIA’s robot attack aircraft.
The (Gibson) Detainee Inquiry published its terms of reference and protocol today. These fail notably to provide for a full and open evaluation of the way in which Britain was complicit in torture and rendition.
The victim of Mark Ströman, a prisoner with close ties to Germany who is due to be executed this month in Texas, will speak about why he is trying to save his attacker’s life – and how the German government can help.
Tomorrow (Tuesday 5 July), shooting victim Rais Bhuiyan will speak at a press conference at the European Parliament on his campaign to save the life of the man who shot him and now faces execution in the US, using drugs produced by a European company. Rais was shot by Mark Ströman along with two other men he believed to be of Middle Eastern descent in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
The producer of a key anaesthetic used in the lethal injection process has announced that it is putting in place robust and unprecedented measures to block its use in executions.
A leading US anaesthesiologist has testified that a prisoner recently executed in Georgia, USA using a new lethal injection drug ‘suffered greatly’ during the process.
An untested lethal injection drug may be causing unnecessary pain and suffering to prisoners, according to new evidence from medical experts and eyewitnesses in the USA.
Reports suggest that the first execution carried out in Georgia using pentobarbital may have been botched, with the prisoner experiencing severe pain as a result of a failure to properly anaesthetise him.
Legal action charity Reprieve is today [1030 Thursday 23 June] taking British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Defence Secretary Liam Fox to court over their role in the unlawful detention of a man rendered to an Afghan prison and held without charge for seven years.
Texas is set to execute a man who has been assessed as ‘intellectually disabled’ today [21 June], in defiance of a US Supreme Court ruling that such practices are unconstitutional.
Four days after arriving home to Egypt, former Guantanamo prisoner Adel Al-Gazzar remains detained at Tora prison
The District Court in Denpassar, Indonesia, has today sentenced 40-year-old British national Khuram Garcia to 20 years in prison for carrying drugs into Bali.
UPDATE: John Balentine's execution has been stayed; Lee Taylor and Eddie Powell's executions both went ahead. Three more men are scheduled to die with Lundeck pentobarbital in the next 48 hours, as Texas prepares to kill John Balentine today (Wednesday) and Lee Taylor tomorrow, while Eddie Powell is due for execution tomorrow in Alabama.
Reprieve is calling on the British government to make urgent representations to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to stop the illegal raids of the prison in which Briton Joshua French and his co-defendant Tjostolv Moland are held.
Ex-Guantánamo prisoner Adel al Gazzar’s hopes of returning to a ‘free’ Egypt were dashed today as he was arrested upon arrival on trumped-up charges.
In an interview with Archbishop Rowan Williams published today, William Hague agreed that extraordinary rendition is ‘absolutely’ a ‘line in the sand’ in terms of an ethical foreign policy. However, the Foreign Secretary’s own department is currently fighting in the courts against providing basic legal rights to Yunus Rahmatullah, who was captured by the UK in Iraq and rendered to Afghanistan, where he has been held without charge in Bagram prison for seven years.
Reports that the Obama administration is pressing Germany to allow exports of execution drugs to the US have highlighted the urgency of achieving an EU-wide ban on such sales, according to legal action charity Reprieve.
Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) appeared for the eighth time before the Lahore High Court today to challenge the Pakistani government’s role in the rendition of seven Pakistani citizens kidnapped and held without charge in Bagram, Afghanistan.
On Thursday 9th June, leading neurologist Dr David Nicholl will present Lundbeck Inc with a petition signed by over 90 doctors calling on the major pharmaceuticals firm to stop supplying drugs used in executions to US prisons.
Maya Foa, of the Legal action charity Reprieve, today met with the Chief Executive of Lundbeck, the pharmaceutical company which has been supplying lethal injection drugs to US death rows.
Texas is today (1 June) set to execute its second prisoner using drugs produced by Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck.
A coalition of legal and human rights organisations is today calling on Prime Minister Donald Tusk to raise the issue of the CIA's secret prison in Poland with President Obama.
Twelve people have now been killed using drugs produced by a Danish company in the US, following yesterday’s execution in Arizona of Donald Beaty.
In response to reports that the Danish Government has banned Marmite, legal action charity Reprieve is calling for them to take real action against a Danish pharmaceutical company which is providing lethal injection drugs to the US.
Reprieve and the Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) appeared today in the Lahore High Court for the seventh hearing of the ‘Bagram Petition’. The court directed the Government to present evidence of their efforts in securing the release of the seven Pakistanis at Bagram.
Clive Stafford Smith, Director of legal action charity Reprieve, is today writing to the Government to ask them to drop their legal opposition to providing basic rights to a man captured by UK forces and held without trial for seven years.
Alabama is today set to execute its first prisoner using drugs produced by Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck.
Lawyers for a US death row prisoner have called for his execution not to go ahead due to serious questions over how the drugs set to be used were imported, and the competence and credibility of their supplier.
The British government’s Ministry of Defence will be forced to appear in court today to justify the ongoing detention without trial of Yunus Rahmatullah in Bagram Internment Facility, Afghanistan.
A man with grave neurological disorders is scheduled to be executed tomorrow [Tuesday] with drugs that should be used to treat him.
A pension fund has sold millions of Euros’ worth of shares in pharmaceutical company Lundbeck as a result of concerns about the use of their drugs in US executions.
Pharmaceutical company Lundbeck has refused to submit testimony to a US court opposing the use of its drugs in executions.
Drugs supplied by pharmaceutical company Lundbeck will today [Friday] allow the first execution in South Carolina in two years to go ahead.
Pakistani human rights lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar presents evidence from his pioneering lawsuit for victims of US drone attacks in Waziristan, Pakistan
Cary Kerr is due to be executed in Texas in less than 48 hours using a drug manufactured by Danish pharmaceutical company, Lundbeck.
Drugs supplied by European pharmaceutical companies are set to be used to execute two US prisoners on the 3rd and 6th of May.
Today's revelations from Wikileaks and elsewhere offer a small insight into the absurdities of the US military 'justice' system.
Reprieve investigators are in Pakistan this week, where it has emerged that up to 2,283 people have been killed by US unmanned aircraft, or ‘drones’, since 2004, with the numbers rapidly escalating in the past two years. As many as 730 have been wholly innocent, according to one official source.
Reprieve is delighted to announce that world-renowned fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has agreed to become our Patron
Reprieve welcomes the announcement by the Department for Business that it is introducing controls on the export to the US of drugs used in lethal injections.
Lawyers for death row prisoner Carey Dean Moore have asked the US Justice Department to seize the lethal injection drug recently bought by Nebraska from Indian wholesaler Kayem, and to investigate the legality of the purchase.
Georgia is set to become the sixth US state to proceed with experimental executions thanks to Danish corporation Lundbeck.
Drugs manufactured by Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck will be used to kill a fifth US prisoner today, as Clarence Carter is executed in Ohio.
Lawyer Sophie Walker discusses the export of Indian manufactured drugs to the US for use in executions by the Mumbai pharmaceutical wholesaler Kayem Pharma, and other Indian companies
***UPDATE: EXECUTION STAYED BY SUPREME COURT*** Disturbing new information has emerged about the new lethal injection protocol in Texas, due to be tested at 6pm today on Cleve Foster.
A House of Commons committee has today criticised extraordinary failures by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills that allowed the export of enough lethal injection drugs from London to kill 80 prisoners in the USA.
***UPDATE: EXECUTION STAYED BY SUPREME COURT***As Texas kills its first prisoner with Danish drugs on Tuesday, Danish ICJ Board member Sune Skadegaard Thorsen, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador Bianca Jagger, Cultural Critic Klavs Birkholm and Reprieve Investigator Maya Foa will discuss corporate complicity in capital punishment and Reprieve will present an urgent message from US death row lawyers to Lundbeck corporation and to the Danish government
Danish pharmaceutical manufacturer Lundbeck has today refused to assist the defence team of Cleve Foster, who is due to die on Tuesday with Lundbeck drugs, by providing a basic scientific report.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has today been reported to the US Attorney General Eric Holder for illegally purchasing and dispensing lethal injection drugs under the name of a hospital that closed in 1983.
The managers of Danish pharmaceutical manufacturer Lundbeck must today face shareholders at their Annual General Meeting in Copenhagen as Texas, home to the USA’s busiest death chamber, prepares to kill its first prisoner with Lundbeck-produced pentobarbital.
Cary Kerr is due to be executed in Texas in less than 48 hours using a drug manufactured by Danish pharmaceutical company, Lundbeck.
Danish manufacturer Lundbeck is one step closer to becoming the dominant supplier of execution drugs in the USA, after a fifth state, Arizona, announced it was switching to pentobarbital for future executions.
Danish manufacturer Lundbeck has today missed a major and historic opportunity to change the face of the U.S. capital punishment system. By choosing not to put measures in place to prevent its drugs being used to kill people, the company has opened its doors to executioners all over the country.
Danish manufacturer Lundbeck is under increased pressure today following Mississippi State Attorney General Jim Hood’s announcement that his Department of Corrections would “most likely” be using pentobarbital in upcoming executions.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has today published new guidance on reporting the torture of detainees abroad. Reprieve is concerned that urgent action is also a priority for the FCO.
Danish pharmaceutical manufacturer Lundbeck is set to become the primary source of lethal injection drugs for Texas, the busiest executing state in the US, after the state changed its lethal injection procedure in response to a nationwide shortage of the anaesthetic sodium thiopental.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration has seized the state of Georgia's supply of lethal injection drug sodium thiopental amid increasing fears that the British drug has caused excruciating pain to prisoners.
Democratic Governor Pat Quinn has today signed into law a bill abolishing the death penalty in Illinois. The bill will take effect on July 1, making Illinois the 16th state of the USA to reject capital punishment.
In a major setback for the legal and moral standing of the USA, President Obama has lifted the suspension of Bush-era military trials for prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay.
The Karkh Criminal Court of Iraq this morning sentenced 31-year-old ex-soldier Danny Fitzsimons to life in prison for the murder of fellow security contractors Paul McGuigan and Darren Hoare in Baghdad’s Green Zone in August 2009.
Reprieve is alarmed that the panel setting up the UK inquiry into torture complicity has refused to abide by international and domestic legal standards, claiming that it is bound only by what Prime Minister David Cameron has told it to do.
A third American prisoner has suffered an excruciating death after an anaesthetic supplied by British drug company Dream Pharma apparently failed during the lethal injection procedure in Arizona.
The Supreme Court of Iraq this morning adjourned the case of Danny Fitzsimons until 28th February in order to re-assess evidence of the British ex-soldier’s Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Hamidullah is a young Pakistani boy – only 14 years old at the time of his seizure – who was sent by his father from their home in Karachi to the ancestral family village in Waziristan in July 2008 to bring home some family belongings.
Lord Ken Macdonald will chair an evidence hearing with the family of Brandon Rhode, who was executed with apparently faulty British drugs, and Dr Mark Heath, the leading US expert on lethal injections, at 10am this Tuesday; press conference will follow
In one of the first open-court hearings on the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme, Reprieve investigator Clara Gutteridge will present evidence in a lawsuit brought against the Macedonian government by German rendition victim Khaled El-Masri at 9.30am this Friday 4th February in Skopje, Macedonia.
Last night, at 11.39 EST (6.39am GMT today), Emanuel Hammond was executed in Georgia using drugs sold by the Acton-based pharmaceutical company Dream Pharma.
Reprieve today reveals that British businessman Matt Alavi of Dream Pharma knew his drugs would be used to kill and expedited prison orders for that reason.
The sole US manufacturer of lethal injection drug sodium thiopental has announced that it is permanently halting production of the drug, potentially delaying executions across the USA.
Guantánamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah has been granted all-important ‘victim’ status in the pending criminal investigation into a CIA black site in Poland, following a complaint brought by Polish lawyer Bartlomiej Jankowski working with INTERIGHTS, Reprieve and Joe Margulies.
Reprieve challenges bizarre excuses for refusal to investigate horse-riding school believed to have imprisoned ‘high-value detainee’ Abu Zubaydah.
Reprieve is delighted to announce that Ken Macdonald QC, co-founder of Matrix Chambers and former Director of Public Prosecutions, is to be our new Chair, in succession to Lord Bingham of Cornhill.
As Guantánamo Bay prison turns nine years old, President Obama has signed a disastrous bill blocking its closure and condemning its prisoners to indefinite detention without trial; Reprieve today asks supporters to write to prisoners who are fast losing hope.
One man is already dead, and many more will follow, as a result of pharmaceutical company Dream Pharma’s pursuit of profit; Reprieve proposes a ‘Hippocratic Oath’ for ethical pharmacies.
It has been 12 days since Reprieve gave Vince Cable urgent notice that the UK is exporting two additional execution drugs to the US and the Business Secretary has failed to take action; Reprieve now gives him an additional 72 hours to apply an export ban on the drugs or face legal action, and gives the European Commission the 60 day notice required before bringing suit in the European Court of Human Rights to ban export of these execution drugs from anywhere in Europe.
Human rights defender Al-Amin Kimathi was today denied bail in Uganda on spurious grounds; Reprieve remains extremely concerned for his safety and wellbeing.
International lawyers will today launch legal action in Poland on behalf of Abu Zubaydah, the first victim of the CIA’s experimental torture programme, regarding crimes committed in the CIA’s ‘most important’ secret prison in Stare Kiejkuty, Poland.
Reprieve and Leigh Day & Co sue British government on the instructions of Guantánamo prisoner and former British resident Ahmed Belbacha; lawsuit challenges UK refusal to reveal crucial and potentially life-saving information about his abuse.
A necklace designed by Vivienne Westwood specially for Reprieve is now on sale, just in time for Christmas, with all proceeds going to our vital work for prisoners on death rows and in Guantánamo Bay.
A senior investigator with Reprieve was detained last night on arrival at Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where she had gone to attend the bail hearing for Amin Kimathi, a Kenyan human rights worker who has assisted Reprieve on a number of cases in the region.
Business Secretary Vince Cable now has a matter of hours to prevent British-sourced lethal injection drug sodium thiopental from reaching US executioners, after it emerged that California has already paid for a shipment from the UK.
Reprieve will today join an alliance of international lawyers in calling for a ban on the production of execution drug sodium thiopental by the Italian factory of international drug company Hospira.
After resisting Reprieve’s efforts to secure a ban on the export of Sodium Thiopental to the US for execution purposes for a month, today Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, agreed to impose such an order.
Reprieve and UK lawyers Leigh Day & Co are today in the High Court seeking to prevent further exports to the United States of sodium thiopental, a drug used in lethal injections.
Reprieve and British lawyers Leigh Day & Co are in the High Court today seeking to prevent further exports to the United States of sodium thiopental, a drug used in lethal injections.
Reprieve’s Director Clive Stafford Smith responds to former President George Bush’s claim that water-boarding prisoners helped prevent terror attacks in the UK.
High Court agrees to hear Reprieve’s judicial review of British government’s failure to halt export of execution drug from Britain; current time frame will not prevent next shipment and Reprieve is now seeking a temporary export ban until the matter can be heard.
Leigh Day & Co. and Reprieve will today launch legal action against the British government on behalf of Edmund Zagorski, a US prisoner facing imminent execution with drugs imported from Britain.
Read a transcript of today's speech by Reprieve's Death Penalty Director Tineke Harris at the launch of the British government's policy on the death penalty.
Reprieve is marking World Day Against the Death Penalty this Sunday 10th October by posting a list of ten popular myths about the death penalty on our website.
Reprieve and local partners have this week launched legal action in the Lahore High Court on behalf of seven ‘disappeared’ Pakistani citizens currently detained in the notorious US prison in Bagram, Afghanistan.
In a letter to Sir Peter Gibson, members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Renditions have strongly recommended the torture inquiry look into the actions of ministers and civil servants, as well as those of intelligence officers and members of the armed forces.
Reprieve fully supports the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s warning to the British government about the legality of its guidance for intelligence agents.
Reprieve's Executive Director Clare Algar last night won Voluntary Sector Achiever of the Year in this year's Women in Public Life Awards.
Vivienne Westwood has designed a special ‘Reprieve’ necklace, showcased at her London Fashion Week show on Sunday, with all proceeds going to our vital work for prisoners on death rows and in Guantánamo Bay.
In a letter to the President and Prosecutor General of Lithuania, Reprieve has requested a full and thorough investigation into allegations that Lithuanian officials were complicit in the secret detention of ‘high value detainee’ Abu Zubaydah between 2004 and 2006.
As Foreign Secretary William Hague pledges to re-establish a central role for human rights in British foreign policy, the Coalition has adopted Labour policy on Guantánamo Bay by refusing to help former UK resident Ahmed Belbacha
Reprieve is delighted to report that Ayman al Shurafa has safely arrived in Hamburg, his new home, thanks to the humanity and generosity of the German government and people.
Suite au refus de l'Etat Français d'accueillir en France le détenu de Guantánamo Nabil Hadjarab, son oncle et citoyen français, Ahmed Hadjarab, demande aujourd'hui à connaître les raisons de ce refus. Il transmet également son souhait au chef de l'Etat de prendre une décision définitive tenant compte de tous les aspects du dossier.
An alliance of human rights NGOs has today written to the Chair of the inquiry into British government complicity in torture.
Nabil Hadjarab, un ancien résident français actuellement incarcéré à Guantánamo s’adresse au Président Nicolas Sarkozy: “S'il vous plait; Monsieur le Président, aidez-moi à retrouver ma dignité: Accueillez-moi en France”. Dans une lettre personnelle adressée directement au Président de la République, Nabil Hadjarab, incarcéré à Guantanamo depuis 8 ans, s’inquiète du rapatriement forcé qui l’attend en Algérie et supplie le Président de la République de bien vouloir l’accueillir en France.
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled by a 6-5 majority that ex-prisoners cannot sue Jeppesen Dataplan, a Boeing subsidiary that arranged extraordinary rendition flights for the CIA, after the Obama administration invoked ‘state secrets’ privilege.
Bianca Jagger appeals to Prime Minister David Cameron to help prevent the execution of British grandmother Linda Carty.
Reprieve is attending today’s third test match at The Brit Oval Cricket Ground, seeking witnesses in the British-Pakistani community for the innovative Pakistan Police Torture Project.
A life-size death row cell replicating the real cell of British grandmother Linda Carty, now facing imminent execution in Texas, opens today in London.
Reprieve announces the launch of Death’s Waiting Room, a life-size death row cell outside St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, at 1pm Thursday 12th August.
Ex-Guantánamo prisoner Abdul Aziz Naji indicted on mysterious charges in Algeria following forced repatriation by Obama Administration; grave fears for the safety of British resident Ahmed Belbacha.
Take action for Ahmed Belbacha, before it's too late.
In a letter copied to the Prime Minister, Reprieve has requested that Sir Peter Gibson step aside as the judge leading the Torture Inquiry, as his impartiality is fatally compromised.
Documents released last night in the Binyam Mohamed civil court case reveal that then-Prime Minister Tony Blair personally overruled the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's demand for consular access to British 'ghost' prisoners.
Reprieve is delighted by the announcement of an inquiry on torture allegations, but insists 1) it cannot restore the reputation of the British security services unless its findings are made public and 2) the inquiry must address the official policy under which the intelligence agents were working at the time.
Reprieve has today launched a new investigative project tackling the culture of torture and impunity in police stations across Pakistan.
Reprieve has today written to the Coalition Government, proposing a structure for a full independent inquiry into allegations of complicity in torture by the British Intelligence and Security Services.
The High Court today confirmed that Reprieve had good reason to seek judicial review of the Government’s ‘torture policy’ – guidance given to intelligence field agents on responding to evidence of torture -- but refused to proceed with the claim on the basis of a new Government promise made to the court.
Briton Joshua French sentenced to death by Democratic Republic of the Congo after second military show trial.
A Dubai court today sentenced British citizen Mark Arnold to 15 years in prison for his alleged part in the death of South African Kerry Winter.
A stellar line-up of comedians stand up for human rights.
Jovelle is in London for an emergency meeting with the British government following the US Supreme Court’s recent refusal to re-open her mother’s case.
Villagers in Horham, Suffolk have recorded an unusual video request to Texas Governor Rick Perry, seeking clemency for British grandmother Linda Carty.
L'oncle de Nabil Hadjarab, Ahmed Hadjarab, demande au President Sarkozy le rapatriement de son neveu en France. Cela fait plus de huit ans que Nabil est detenu illégalement à Guantánamo.
L'oncle de Nabil Hadjarab, Ahmed Hadjarab, demande au Président Nicolas Sarkozy le rapatriement de son neveu en France. Cela fait plus de huit ans que Nabil est detenu illégalement à Guantánamo.
Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith OBE will speak at the Old School, Horham in Suffolk at 2pm on Friday 28th May, about his work on death row and Guantanamo Bay.
William Hague has announced that an inquiry should be held into the allegations of British complicity in rendition and torture. This is timely and welcome, reflecting what should be a high priority for the coalition government.
The Court of Appeal has today “firmly and unambiguously” rejected the government’s argument that it is open to a Court, in the absence of statutory power, to order a “closed material procedure” in relation to the trial of an ordinary civil claim, such as the claims of former Guantanamo detainees brought against the British Security Services and various government departments for alleged complicity in their torture and maltreatment over several years.
Reprieve is deeply disappointed by today's Supreme Court decision not to consider the disastrous case of Linda Carty, a British grandmother facing imminent execution thanks to a flawed trial in Texas.
Former British resident Ahmed Belbacha today requested that his case be heard by all nine active judges in the Washington circuit court, citing issues of crucial constitutional importance and the highest human stakes.
The High Military Court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), today quashed the conviction of British national Joshua French for technical reasons.
A federal district court in Washington has today rejected the pleas of former British resident Ahmed Belbacha, refusing to block his forced return to persecution and torture in Algeria.
Reprieve sues the British Government over the two men rendered by the UK to Bagram and reveals the likely identity of the second victim; British Government tries to intimidate Reprieve into dropping legal action.
In a bullish reply to the US Supreme Court, the State of Texas has ignored the British government’s dramatic claim that had they been allowed to assist their citizen Linda Carty, she may not be facing execution today.
A Baghdad court was due to hear witness testimony today in the trial of Manchester-born private security worker Danny Fitzsimons. The hearing was adjourned to allow Danny to be tested by the Psychiatric Medical Committee in Al Rashad Mental Hospital.
Lawyers for former British resident Ahmed Belbacha yesterday submitted an emergency plea to the US courts seeking to prevent his forced return to persecution and torture in Algeria.
Briton Joshua French was yesterday due to plead for his life in an appeal hearing at the Military High Court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Instead, both Joshua and his lawyer were trapped hundreds of miles away in Kisangani, eastern DRC, while the hearing went ahead without them.
The British Government is this week expected to announce that 210,000 sq km around the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean will become the world’s largest marine reserve.
Former Bournemouth resident Ahmed Belbacha has submitted a desperate plea to DC’s Federal District Court to prevent his forcible repatriation to Algeria.
This letter to the British government from Reprieve, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition, Amnesty International UK, Human Rights Watch and Liberty was sent today.
One year ago today, on March 18 2009, Gordon Brown promised to publish the new ‘Torture Policy’ – guidance for intelligence officers who find evidence of torture in the field.
Tareq Harb, Iraqi lawyer for the British ex-soldier Danny Fitzsimons now facing execution in Iraq, will join Clive Stafford Smith and Danny's family in appealing for help in fighting this urgent case.
The Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador and founder of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation has made an urgent Mother’s Day appeal to save British grandmother Linda Carty from execution this summer.
Former Bournemouth resident Ahmed Belbacha is this week making a desperate plea to the US courts to prevent him being forcibly repatriated to Algeria.
Nine high-profile British women today joined the fight to save British grandmother Linda Carty from execution, releasing the film ‘I Support the Fight. I Support Linda Carty.’ for International Women’s Day.
The Government today asked two High Court Judges to allow them to cover up evidence of torture even more thoroughly than they did in the case of Binyam Mohamed.
The Queen on the application of Madni v Secretary Of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs
The Appeal Court today published their original judgment in the Binyam Mohamed case, revealing controversial paragraph that the Foreign Office's barrister sought to suppress.
Death row grandmother Linda Carty files last-ditch ‘video plea’ to the US Supreme Court tomorrow; best-selling crime writer Martina Cole joins British government in fight to prevent summer execution.
Reprieve will today begin legal proceedings challenging the British government’s infamous series of ‘torture policies’: official guidance for agents interviewing prisoners held abroad.
In an extraordinary and disturbing development in the Binyam Mohamed case, it emerged that the British Government’s barrister wrote a note to one of the Court of Appeal judges in an attempt to manipulate the draft judgment.
The Court of Appeals today ordered the publication of seven paragraphs that the Foreign Secretary had sought to suppress. Here are the paragraphs:
Reprieve today takes the ‘Obama needs EU’ tour to Ireland, to thank the government for their support in closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
British grandmother Linda Carty makes desperate final appeal to US Supreme Court in Washington DC; earlier courts have refused to hear new evidence showing her conviction is unsafe
The UN has today released a wide-ranging report on secret detention which will prove embarrassing for states like the UK who claim respect for the rule of law.
Reprieve has today taken the ‘Obama needs EU!’ tour to Sweden in a bid to encourage their Government to provide a safe haven for Guantánamo’s homeless inmates
President Obama needs the EU now more than ever to help him close Guantánamo Bay. His promise to renounce the prison has aroused damaging hostility within the United States. By contrast, European countries applauded his promise. Now these countries must lend a helping hand to eradicate the starkest symbol of injustice of our time.
The High Court today handed down judgment in two cases fought on behalf of Samantha Orobator, the British woman who was returned to Britain after a severely flawed trial in Laos.
As President Obama celebrates his first year in the Oval Office, evidence has emerged that his Administration has suppressed the investigation of three potential homicides at Guantánamo Bay.
In his first days in office President Obama issued executive orders that appeared to draw back from the worst excesses of the Bush era, stopping the CIA from running prisons, banning torture, and announcing that the notorious prison at Guantánamo Bay would be closed.
China's Supreme Court ignored advice from their own panel of experts in executing Akmal Shaikh; new letter from Akmal to Reprieve reveals major flaws in trial
The family of Akmal Shaikh have today written to the British Government urging them to order an immediate inquest into his death in China.
Akmal Shaikh’s execution was carried out this morning at 2.30am GMT. Reprieve is appalled that no mercy was shown to a man who was clearly mentally ill.
As the hours count down to his execution, witnesses have surfaced in Poland attesting to Akmal Shaikh's mental illness, and his obsession with recording the song that will usher in world peace.
Akmal Shaikh’s execution is set for 10.30am on Tuesday morning, Urumqi time (2.30am GMT). It is now less than nine hours away.
The Mental Health Lawyers Association has made an urgent appeal to the Chinese authorities to reassess the Supreme Court's decision to execute Akmal Shaikh without allowing him a full mental health assessment.
Akmal Shaikh’s execution is set for 10.30am on Tuesday morning, Urumqi time (2.30am GMT). The Chinese authorities will not inform Akmal that he is to be executed until Monday morning, just 24 hours beforehand, on “humanitarian grounds”.
Two members of Akmal Shaikh’s family – his first cousins, Soohail Shaikh and Nasir Shaikh, both of London – leave this afternoon for Beijing and Urumqi on a mercy mission to plead for Akmal’s life.
In what could be the last few days of his brother's life, Akbar Shaikh has made a desperate plea to the Chinese authorities to show compassion for the Shaikh family and halt Akmal's execution.
Akmal Shaikh’s children Leilla Horsnell, Abdul Jabar Shaikh and Imran Shaikh plead for his life
At approximately 12:10 PM Hargeisa time on December 19, 2009, Ismail Mohamed, Reprieve client and one of the last prisoners to be taken to Guantánamo, was released to his family and friends in Somaliland.
Chinese Supreme Court denies Akmal Shaikh’s appeal; mentally ill British national set to die on December 29; he would become the first EU national to be executed in China in 50 years
British journalist David Rose intervenes to prevent the imminent execution of Carlton Gary
The British Government calls for closed hearings about Londoner Shaker Aamer - once again at the request of the Americans - in the High Court today.
Reprieve's investigation reveals how the British government misled parliament and the public.
Briton Joshua French ordered to pay US$500 million to the Democratic Republic of Congo as his death sentence is upheld by military ‘Appeal Court’.
Algerian ‘show trial’ raises grave fears for Ahmed Belbacha, British resident still imprisoned in Guantánamo; Reprieve calls on the US and UK governments to address Ahmed’s desperate situation.
Reprieve congratulates France on the resettlement of Saber Lahmar and calls on President Obama to bring home French resident and son of French veteran Nabil Hadjarab
Foreign Secretary David Miliband must urge the DRC to replace shameful military 'show trial' with a legitimate trial in civilian court.
Reprieve is currently seeking four research fellows for an exciting new project: Engaging Europe in the Fight for US Abolition.
The Foreign Secretary is attempting to suppress details of torture methods used on Binyam Mohamed, citing US disapproval - despite the fact that the methods have already been published by the Obama Administration.
In an alarming decision, Mr Justice Silber has approved in principle the introduction of a new category of ‘secret evidence’, including that detailing the illegal detention and torture of British citizens and residents.
Clive Stafford Smith asks why, after eight months, the Government has failed to release the guidance given to Security Service agents on how to deal with evidence of torture abroad.
The family of British ex-soldier Danny Fitzsimons, now facing the death penalty in Iraq, will tomorrow join Clive Stafford Smith in revealing details of his plight in a public meeting near Danny’s home.
Reprieve congratulates the town of Amherst, Massachusetts, for approving a resolution to welcome cleared Guantánamo prisoners
The APPG is publishing its proposals on a new law to criminalise extraordinary rendition through UK territory. They will close the gap in English law that has allowed the use of UK territory for the purposes of extraordinary rendition in the past.
R.E.M and Pearl Jam are leading a coalition of international musicians supporting an official FOIA request for information about the use of music torture in Guantánamo Bay and around the world.
In a great victory for press freedom and open democracy, the High Court today ruled that seven paragraphs of their judgment in the Binyam Mohamed case, which the Foreign Secretary sought to suppress, must be reinstated and released to the public.
Londoner Akmal Shaikh is facing imminent execution in China for carrying drugs; Reprieve believes Akmal suffers from a serious mental illness and is urgently asking Prime Minister Gordon Brown to intervene.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown must personally intervene to help two Birmingham men languishing in a Pakistani jail, Clive Stafford Smith wrote in a letter delivered to Downing Street today.
The Fifth Circuit court in New Orleans conceded that Linda received inadequate defence at her trial, but refused to reverse the jury’s decision to execute her.
British grandmother Linda Carty will be making a bizarre appearance on Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square at 10am on Thursday 10th September.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown must personally raise this case with President Zadari of Pakistan and insist that the trial (which has already heard the confession evidence) be halted and they immediately receive a fair trial in which no evidence extracted under torture is heard.
British grandmother Linda Carty faces 'last chance' appeal against her execution in US court tomorrow; judges refuse to hear new evidence showing her conviction is unsafe.
22 British nationals now face execution abroad, says new Foreign Office report; Reprieve urges families to approach us for immediate assistance.
Reprieve and London solicitors Bindmans last night launched a two-pronged legal challenge to the imprisonment of Samantha Orobator by the British government following a disgraceful ‘show trial’ conviction in Laos.
Reprieve welcomes Obama Administration’s decision to release new CIA memos yesterday and today providing further disturbing details on the CIA’s overseas secret prisons programme for ‘terror suspects’.
Reprieve has formally launched legal action in the British High Court and the Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory on behalf of 'ghost prisoner' Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni.
The Obama Administration will deliberately endanger innocent British civilians if torture evidence is revealed, the British government says; lawyers will today write to Secretary Hillary Clinton to verify the claim.
Reprieve will today announce litigation against the British Government over the cover-up of the truth about the illegal rendition to Afghanistan of two prisoners captured by the British in Iraq in 2004.
August 12th is the 60th anniversary of the day the Geneva Conventions came into force. Now, more than ever, they must be defended against those who would tamper with them.
Samantha Orobator, a 20-year old Londoner, was arrested in Laos in August 2008 on a drugs charge. She returns to the UK today following a disgraceful ‘show trial’ conviction. The key facts and case background are outlined below.
Reprieve will hold a press conference regarding Samantha Orobator, the 20 year old British woman who faced the death penalty in Laos, upon her return to the UK.
Reprieve has today written to the Intelligence and Security Committee, the body in charge of policing the British Secret Services, alerting them to the fact that they were seriously misled by their own Service about crimes committed under their watch.
Reprieve today demanded the British government reveal details of the secret illegal detention of ‘ghost’ prisoner Mustafa Setmariam Naser on Diego Garcia and asked two U.N. Special Rapporteurs to urgently investigate the case.
British judges today revealed new details of the role of British Secret Services in the illegal detention and torture of Binyam Mohamed.
The Republic of Ireland has today provided crucial support to President Obama’s mission to close the notorious prison at Guantánamo Bay by agreeing to accept two prisoners.
Lawyers representing ex-Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed will tomorrow renew their efforts to persuade judges to release information detailing his torture.
Reprieve will today announce via press conference the launch of legal action against the British Government for their role in the illegal rendition to torture of Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni.
The Obama Administration today provided the clearest signals yet that the closure of Guantánamo Bay is failing to progress satisfactorily and may well miss the stated deadline of 22nd January 2010.
The briefing sums up what is at stake, President Obama’s commitments so far, his achievements to date and what he has left undone.
President Obama pledged to close Guantánamo Bay within a year. Six months later, just eleven prisoners have been released and around 228 remain. At this rate it will take him ten years to close the prison, or, worse, he will fail.
Reprieve’s zero dB campaign against music torture will contribute to two festivals this weekend
Peter Gabriel leads music industry call for the President to ban music torture in his July 21 review of US interrogation policy.
Reprieve welcomes David Davis’s revelations in Parliament regarding British complicity in the torture of Rangzieb Ahmed.
Reprieve welcomes the news that Togo has abolished the death penalty after a ‘unanimous vote’ on 23 June by the national assembly.
Reprieve has launched an innovative online petition against music torture on MySpace ahead of President Obama’s July 21 report on 'no touch' torture techniques.
Bagram is the new Guantánamo Bay: BBC revelations confirm abuses in Bagram Air Force Base; Reprieve calls on the Government to take action concerning the two Pakistanis who the British helped render there from Iraq.
Reprieve calls on the UK government to end the 'inhuman' suffering of Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman, tortured British nationals facing the death penalty in Pakistan, on the fifth anniversary of their imprisonment
Reprieve welcomes the news that the Vietnamese National Assembly has approved amendments to its criminal code.
If a British intelligence officer learned that prisoners were being tortured by our American allies, he was not obliged to do anything to stop the abuse -- under the policy promulgated by the Blair government.
Reprieve is dismayed that ‘freed’ Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed el Gharani is inexplicably imprisoned by government of Chad; demands his immediate release to his family.
Reprieve thanks Italy for agreeing to accept three Tunisian prisoners from Guantánamo Bay, but further urges Rome to allow the return of all Italian residents currently held in Guantánamo.
Reprieve, the UK charity whose lawyers represent three Uighur prisoners in Guantánamo, today praised the compassion shown to the Uighurs last week by the island nation of Bermuda.
Reprieve is delighted that our client Mohammed el Gharani has been released from Guantánamo Bay to Chad after a seven-year ordeal that began when he was just 14 years old.
The British government today used a letter from an ‘unnamed official‘ in the Obama Administration to justify suppressing details of the torture of former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed.
One of the US government’s most infamous "floating prisons" – the USS Bataan – is currently moored in the Spanish holiday resort of Palma de Mallorca.
Reprieve is disappointed by Connecticut Governor Mary Jodi Rell’s decision to veto an attempted repeal of the state’s death penalty statute, despite the bill’s having passed through both chambers of the legislature.
British citizen Akmal Shaikh today faces an appeal court in China, where he will plead for his life. Reprieve has grave concerns for Mr Shaikh, who may not be fit to stand trial, let alone face execution.
At a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing tomorrow, Clive Stafford Smith will reveal the identity of the ‘ghost prisoner’ illegally rendered to torture in Egypt via Diego Garcia, and disclose new evidence that at least one prisoner was actually held at the British territory.
Reprieve director Clive Stafford Smith will give evidence at the Foreign Affairs Committee’s Inquiry on Human Rights, which begins tomorrow
Reprieve is delighted that Lakhdar Boumediene has been released from Guantanamo Bay and welcomed home by his family in France.
Reprieve has joined forces with iceandfire theatre company to draw attention to the plight of victims of torture and abuse under the CIA’s ‘extraordinary rendition’ programme.
Reprieve lawyers today expressed shock that the Obama Administration is to establish new military commissions to try prisoners from Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve will join academics, musicians and journalists in New York tomorrow to discuss the use of ear-splitting music as an ‘enhanced interrogation technique’.
Reprieve confirms that lawyer Anna Morris saw Samantha Orobator for the first time yesterday, Tuesday 12th May.
Ibn al Sheikh al Libi was tortured by the CIA into stating that Saddam Hussein was connected to al Qaeda, thus justifying the invasion of Iraq.
The APPG will discuss the case of Samantha Orobator, the 20 year-old pregnant British national in Phongthong Prison, Laos. Reprieve has been notified that Samantha’s trial will be held on Tuesday 12th or Wednesday 13th May 2009.
The High Court has announced that it will re-open its original judgment that details of the torture of former Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed should remain secret in the interests of national security.
This week the British Government filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, in the case of Linda Carty, the British woman sentenced to death in Texas.
Reprieve welcomes the prisoner transfer agreement signed and ratified by the government of Laos; anticipates expeditious passage through parliament; requests immediate access to Samantha Orobator in prison; and suggests that the Lao authorities conduct an investigation into apparent solicitation to bribery.
Reprieve, together with the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, will tomorrow deliver an urgent letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling on him to do whatever it takes to bring pregnant Briton Samantha Orabator home.
Khenthong Nuanthasing, the Lao government spokesman, has made various official government statements on the case of Samantha Orobator today:
Despite being scheduled to meet with Samantha Orobator today, Reprieve lawyer Anna Morris has been refused access to the prison. No explanation has been received from the Lao Authorities as to why the meeting was cancelled.
Reprieve is urgently concerned for a pregnant British woman without legal representation who faces a hastily arranged trial – and possible death penalty - in Laos next week. Clive Stafford Smith will reveal details of the case at a press conference tomorrow at 1pm in Room C, 1 Parliament Street, Westminster.
Reprieve applauds the Obama Administration’s significant work in reversing the extraordinary policies of President Bush. However there is much urgent work still left undone:
The Obama Administration cannot use state secrecy doctrine to block Binyam Mohamed’s litigation against aviation company Jeppesen Dataplan, a US Federal Court ruled yesterday.
The British Government today attempted again to persuade High Court judges not to allow the release of information about the torture of Binyam Mohamed, reiterating the US government’s hard-line position on the case, supposedly continued under President Obama.
The memos contradict Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘bad apple’ excuse, showing that torture was systematic, legitimised and approved by those at the very top of the tree.
Reprieve is delighted to announce a forthcoming exhibition of portraits by British artist Claire Phillips at the Oxo Gallery on London’s Southbank from 1 July to 5 July 2009.
Lawyers for British grandmother Linda Carty are hoping that a court appeal launched last night in Texas may yet save her life.
Reprieve is delighted by the Attorney General’s announcement that she has referred Binyam Mohamed’s case to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Yesterday afternoon, the FCO submitted additional documentation to the British judges sitting on the case of Binyam Mohamed stating that the US government continues to demand the suppression of evidence concerning the torture of Binyam Mohamed.
Today, the two British judges sitting on the case of Binyam Mohamed have revealed how the US government tried to get Binyam Mohamed to sign an agreement stating that he had never been tortured, to promise not to speak with the media upon his release, and to plead guilty as a condition of his release back to Britain – all without his lawyers being allowed access to evidence that would help prove his innocence.
Reprieve welcomes the British government’s decision to publish guidance issued to intelligence officers and military personnel on the questioning of detainees held overseas, and the news that intelligence Services Commissioner Sir Peter Gibson will monitor compliance and report annually.
Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman are British nationals who are currently facing execution in Pakistan. They were brutally tortured by the police in an attempt to secure confessions. Despite the fact that they were arrested over 4½ years ago, they still have not faced trial, and currently live their lives in Mirpur prison in the executioner’s shadow.
Reprieve and Clare Short MP will tomorrow stage a press conference to reveal details of a new case of torture involving three British citizens: Naheem Hussain, Rehan Zaman and Fazal Hussain.
CIA ‘TORTURED’ DETAINEES SAYS RED CROSS REPORT
French resident Nabil Hadjarab has today released a statement from Guantánamo Bay.
In a report that has far-reaching implications for the mistreatment of Binyam Mohamed, Martin Scheinin (the UN Special Rapporteur on the Protection of Human Rights While Countering Terrorism) will present his report on intelligence agencies, and their lack of accountability on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 (it is previewed at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/10session/A.HRC.10.3.pdf).
Kenya’s government illegally detained and rendered 150 citizens in a US-influenced ‘counter-terrorism’ operation, a report reveals today.
Mohammed el Gharani was just 14 years old when he was wrongfully imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. Despite being ordered to be released by a federal judge, he is still there five years later - the youngest remaining juvenile.
The British government today confirmed what Reprieve investigators uncovered many months ago: that the UK has colluded with the USA in the illegal practice of extraordinary rendition.
After a long battle with the US authorities, Reprieve is pleased to announce that Binyam Mohamed has been released from Guantanamo Bay and will today arrive in Britain.
Reprieve and Amnesty International UK will hold a press conference today at 11.45am on Guantánamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed's return to Britain.
Reprieve welcomes the Foreign Office announcement that Binyam Mohamed will return to the UK as soon as practicable.
Lt Col Yvonne Bradley, the military counsel for British resident Binyam Mohamed, will tomorrow meet with highest level government figures in order to plead for his release from Guantanamo Bay.
Lt Col Yvonne Bradley, the military counsel for British resident Binyam Mohamed, will tomorrow meet with parliamentarians and senior government figures in order to secure his release from Guantánamo Bay, and ensure that the public has the right to know about his torture.
Leigh Day & Co and Reprieve are seeking to re-open Mohamed v. Secretary of State on the basis that the judgement relied on ‘misleading evidence’ provided by the UK Government.
British court asks that President Obama reconsider his predecessor’s repeated “threats” levelled against the judges who considered allowing the public to learn the details of American torture of Binyam Mohamed
Reprieve is delighted to welcome Binyam Mohamed home. We are relieved that his seven-year ordeal is finally over and hope that he will now be offered every support in rebuilding his life in Britain.
Reprieve is delighted by the European Parliament’s decision to help President Obama resettle prisoners released from Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve director and human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith will deliver the 2009 Bloody Sunday memorial lecture at 8pm on Saturday 31st January at the Calgach Centre, Butcher Street, Derry. He will discuss the future of Guantánamo Bay under President Obama.
Reprieve is delighted by President Obama’s pledge to close Guantánamo Bay within a year, and halt all military trials.
Reprieve challenges David Miliband’s statement that Britain has done enough to lead Europe in helping President Obama to close Guantánamo Bay. Mr Miliband today ruled out taking ex-prisoners from other countries, protesting that Britain had its plate full in resettling its own nationals.
ON TORTURE
Reprieve congratulates President Obama on his decision to suspend the military commissions in Guantánamo Bay.
“Our founding fathers … drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man….Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up…” --President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
Reprieve is delighted by President Obama’s pledge to close Guantánamo Bay within a year, and halt all military trials.
Reprieve is thrilled that our client Mohammed el Gharani is to be released from Guantánamo Bay following a federal court order obtained yesterday.
Reprieve is delighted that Portugal has become the first European state to offer a home for prisoners currently stranded at Guantánamo Bay who cannot be sent back to their home countries for risk of persecution.
On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights musicians are uniting against the use of music to torture by joining Zero dB. The Zero dB project (zero decibels = silence) was launched today by legal charity Reprieve which represents over 30 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Many of Reprieve’s clients - and hundreds more held in US secret prisons across the world - have been subjected to deafening music played for hours, days and often months on end in order to ‘break’ them.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Monday, December 8): Five men -- including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who are charged with plotting the September 11 attacks -- have told a military judge today that they wish to plead guilty and confess their crimes. This will avoid their being tried, and set up their execution.
This evening the BBC PM Programme has broadcasted a groundbreaking interview with Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, US Army, the prosecutor formerly assigned to Binyam Mohamed’s Guantánamo military commission. He explains that he had to resign because of his concerns at the repeated suppression of evidence that could prove prisoners’ innocence. He went, he says, “from being a true believer to feeling truly deceived.”
Reprieve, the British legal action charity whose lawyers represent 33 Guantánamo Bay prisoners, applauds today’s ruling by a civilian court in the United States that five Guantánamo Bay prisoners must be set free.
Reprieve is delighted to announce that Lord Bingham of Cornhill, former senior law lord and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, is going to take on Chairmanship of the legal charity at the beginning of next year.
Reprieve (the legal action charity) and Leigh Day, who represent British resident Binyam Mohamed, announce that the UK High Court has, in harsh terms, condemned the actions of the US government in its mistreatment of Mr. Mohamed.
Reprieve, the legal action charity whose lawyers represent British resident Binyam Mohamed, announces that the US military has dropped all charges against Mr. Mohamed in his proposed trial by Military Commission at Guantánamo.
Reprieve is deeply disappointed by Iran’s apparent backtracking on its decision to abolish the juvenile death penalty.
After over six years’ imprisonment without charge or trial, Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz, a citizen of Mauritania, despairs of ever being released – or of receiving a fair trial.
As the case of British resident and Reprieve client Binyam Mohamed returns to the UK High Court, Lush Cosmetics is calling for a nation-wide hunger strike on 15th October to draw attention to Binyam’s torture and illegal imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay.
Leigh Day & Co. and Reprieve are back in the UK High Court next week, representing British resident Binyam Mohamed, who has been in US custody since July 2002, and in Guantánamo since September 2004.
Reprieve, the legal action charity whose lawyers represent over 30 prisoners in Guantánamo, today condemns the US government for its underhand efforts to send cleared prisoner Ahmed Belbacha back to Algeria, where he is at risk of torture.
Reprieve, the legal action charity whose lawyers represent British resident Binyam Mohamed, is delighted to announce that the central charge against Mr. Mohamed in his proposed trial by Military Commission at Guantánamo – that he was involved in a plot to set off a radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ in a US city – has been dropped by the US Government.
Reprieve is delighted to announce that Mustafa Ibrahim Al Hassan has been freed from Guantánamo and repatriated to Sudan, where he has been reunited with his family.
A former footballer, Ahmed Belbacha was born in Algiers in 1969. He left his homeland in 1999, after receiving death threats from militants because he worked for a government-run oil company, and sought asylum in the UK.
Ayman Al Shurafa is one of Guantánamo’s unluckiest prisoners. Although he has been cleared for release since 2007, he remains imprisoned because of wrangling over his nationality.
Reprieve, the legal action charity, is delighted to announce that it will be staging Cruel and Unusual, Keith Farnan’s brilliant one-man comedy show about the death penalty. The show, which runs from November 11 to 15 at the Hen and Chickens Theatre (109 St Paul's Road, Highbury, London N1) gives Reprieve an invaluable opportunity to raise awareness about the continuing work we do for people facing the death penalty and other human rights violations around the world.
Reprieve is deeply saddened by the execution of Jack Alderman. The longest serving death row prisoner in the United States, Jack had been on Georgia’s death row for over 33 years. He was executed yesterday evening.
Reprieve, the legal action charity, today condemns the politicisation of the military commission system at Guantánamo (the novel trial system for prisoners seized in the “War on Terror” that was conceived in November 2001), with particular reference to the case of British resident Binyam Mohamed.
Reprieve, the legal action charity, is delighted at the news that Jack Alderman, who has been on Georgia’s death row for over 33 years, has received a stay of execution.
John le Carré will read from A Most Wanted Man and will speak on this subject. At the end of the event, the organisers will invite the audience to make contributions to enable Reprieve to continue its vital work.
Jack Alderman, the longest serving prisoner on death row in the USA, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday 16 September 2008 at 7.30 pm.
In 1997, Sherif El-Meshad, who was born in Egypt in 1976, travelled to Italy, where he registered as an Italian resident and stayed in Como with his maternal uncle, who had been living in Italy for 30 years and is an Italian citizen. In 2001, following a summer vacation in Afghanistan, Sherif El-Meshad is arrested attempting to return to Italy via Afghanistan. He spent three weeks in a Pakistani prison in Peshawar, and was then flown to the US prison at Kandahar airport, where he spent another five months before being transferred to Guantánamo.
11 August 2008 Speaking of his ill-health, Binyam said, “I’m sick, and I don’t know it. We got so used to being sick that we scarcely notice. Like a person limping who stops noticing, my health problems are so chronic that I barely notice them anymore.”
After three weeks of the "welfare" visit from the British government, Binyam Mohamend is disappointed that his welfare has not improved.
Reprieve, the London-based legal action charity whose lawyers represent over 30 prisoners in Guantánamo, today calls on the Sudanese government to exert diplomatic pressure on the US government to secure the release of Sudanese prisoner Mustafa Ibrahim Mustafa Al Hassan from Guantánamo.
New revelations, contained in a US Department of Justice report on US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interrogations at Guantánamo Bay, tell of the horrendous abuse suffered by Chadian prisoner Mohammed El Gharani. Mohammed was only 15 years old when he was imprisoned more than six and a half years ago. Mohammed has never been charged with a crime or had a trial.
Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones handed down their second judgment this afternoon on the case of Guantánamo Bay prisoner and British resident Binyam Mohamed.
Seized in Pakistan at the age of 14, Mohammed El Gharani is one of Guantánamo’s forgotten prisoners, but this need not be the case. The example of Sudan, which has secured the return from the prison of four Sudanese nationals in the last nine months demonstrates what can be achieved through persistent diplomatic pressure on the United States.
Lord Justice Thomas and Justice Lloyd Jones handed down their judgement this morning on the case of Guantánamo Bay prisoner and British resident Binyam Mohamed. Foreign Secretary David Miliband was given one week in which to reconsider the government’s refusal to share evidence with Mr. Mohamed that could help prove his innocence.
Reprieve (the legal action charity which represents 32 prisoners in Guantánamo Bay) announces that Lord Thomas is due to deliver his judgment tomorrow morning on the case of Guantanamo Bay prisoner, Binyam Mohamed.
British legal action charity Reprieve denounces the just completed trial of Guantánamo prisoner Salim Hamdan as unjust and illegal.
US Ignores International Law in Order to Carry Out the Execution of Mexican National José Medellín
Reprieve has expressed outrage at the news that Mexican national José Medellín was executed yesterday in Texas despite a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) calling for a stay. Medellín was convicted in 1994 for the gang rape and murders of two teenage girls, Elizabeth Peña and Jennifer Ertman, in Houston in 1993; he had just turned 18.
Today, following revelations that the British Overseas Territory of Diego Garcia was used to hold three prisoners in the US ‘War on Terror’ (Abu Zubaydah, Hambali and Mustafa Setmariam Nasar) at various times between 2002 and 2006, Reprieve, the British legal action charity that represents 30 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, demands that the British government hold an open and transparent public inquiry into the use of its territory to house a secret prison.
Lord Thomas is due to deliver his judgment tomorrow morning on the case of Guantánamo Bay prisoner, Binyam Mohamed.
On 25 July British legal charity Reprieve wrote to Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen requesting evidence central to Binyam’s defence (letter to Prime Minister attached). Both Binyam’s renditions to torture in Morocco and Afghanistan were enabled through Irish complicity.
This Monday, 28 July, Binyam will at last have his day in court – and a chance to obtain evidence of his torture in the possession of the UK government.
Reprieve has repeatedly asked the British Government to intervene on Binyam’s behalf. We have just heard from the British Government that they asked the US in May to examine the question of Binyam’s ‘mistreatment’. The US Government has now responded, saying that, based on a review of their records and consultations, that the allegations made by Mr Mohamed are “not credible".
On Sunday the Foreign Affairs Committee issued its latest report into the UK’s Overseas Territories, and Reprieve is delighted to discover that the cross-party committee has not shied away from criticizing the US Administration for its failure to tell the truth to the UK government, which is supposed to be its closest ally, about rendition flights through Diego Garcia. Reprieve is also heartened that the committee has no intention of letting the matter drop.
For twelve days, from 13 to 24 June, Reprieve enjoyed the opportunities provided by a unique collaboration – as the charity partners of Massive Attack, curators of this year’s Meltdown festival at London’s Southbank Centre – to publicize our work to a brand-new audience
Reprieve is saddened to hear that Sir Charles Wheeler, patron of Reprieve and the BBC’s longest-serving foreign correspondent, has died at the age of 85.
Reprieve’s research into renditions through Diego Garcia indicates that the reason that British officials failed to secure the expected evidence is because they intentionally failed to ask the right questions of the US, and accepted implausible US assurances at face value.
Today, June 26, marks the 21st anniversary of the day that the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came into force. Since 1998, it has been marked by the UN as the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture.
Representatives of Reprieve, including Director Clive Stafford Smith, released Guantánamo prisoners and other supporters will be meeting at 3 pm outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, where they will publicize Binyam’s plight.
Kris Maharaj, an innocent Briton imprisoned in the US for 22 years: plea for clemency denied by Governor Crist.
UK Charity Reprieve, which fights for prisoners on death row, is delighted by the news that Kenny Richey, a Scot who has been on Ohio’s death row for more than 20 years, has had his conviction overturned on appeal.
Reprieve are delighted to announce that within the last 24 hours Ahmed Errachidi has been reunited with his family after being held prisoner in Guantanamo Bay for over five years.
Reprieve has expressed delight at the news that Mirza Tahir Hussain has been released from prison in Pakistan this morning. The news comes a day after President Musharraf announced that he had commuted Tahir’s death sentence to life in prison.
Reprieve is delighted with the news that the death sentence for British citizen Mirza Tahir Hussain has been lifted. Tahir has been on Death Row in Pakistan for 18 years for an act he has always maintained he committed in self-defence.
Human rights charity Reprieve has welcomed the news that President Musharraf has granted a two-month stay of execution for Mirza Tahir Hussain, the British national on death row in Pakistan, but warns that efforts must continue to find a lasting solution to the case.
Human Rights charity Reprieve has learnt that Mirza Tahir Hussain, the Briton facing execution in Pakistan, has had his execution date set as 1 November, a date that coincides with Prince Charles’ official state visit to Pakistan.
Human rights charity Reprieve - which acts for wrongfully imprisoned British businessman Krishna Maharaj - is to make a final appeal for clemency on his behalf, twenty years after his wrongful arrest. Fifteen of those years were spent on Death Row.
Human rights organisation Reprieve has expressed dismay at the news that the United States Supreme Court has put Kenny Richey, a Scottish man wrongfully convicted of murder in Ohio, USA, back on death row.
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by Tim Shipman and Melissa Kite, The Telegraph 07/02/09
by Clive Stafford Smith, The Guardian 05/02/09
BBC News online 04/02/09
by Philip Sherwell, Telegraph, 24/01/09
by Richard Norton Taylor and Duncan Campbell, The Guardian 02/06/2009
by Ian Cobain, The Guardian, 19/10/07
One India News reports on 01/05/07 on the extradition of Ahmed Errachidi to Morocco and his subsequent disappearance.
The BBC reports on British citizens, held in Guantánamo Bay on 05/10/06.
David Fickling writes in the Guardian on 14/06/06 about how reporters were told to leave following three suicides.
Now resettled in France, Lakhdar Boumediene talks to MSNBC about his wrongful imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay and his hopeless struggle to get a job.
Watch as Guardian journalists speak to the families of some of the five Tunisians that remain in Guantánamo Bay.
Jemima Khan joined Reprieve and tribal elders from Waziristan at a conference in Islamabad to open an international dialogue on the use of CIA drones in Pakistan.
Rachel Maddow talks to E.J. Dionne, Washington Times Columnist in the wake of Troy Davis' controversial execution.
Sophie Walker, Investigator and Attorney on the Death Penalty team speaks to CNN on the eve of Troy Davis' execution.
Watch Reprieve's Legal Director Cori Crider comment on the CIA and the ride they were given by the Libyan and Moroccan security services.
Reprieve's partner in Pakistan, Shahzad Akbar, speaks to CNN about the hundreds of people killed by drone strikes.
Reprieve's Executive Director Clare Algar explains why human rights organisations, lawyers and victims are pulling out of the British Government's Detainee Inquiry.
Reprieve staff attorney Tara Murray talks to Russia Today about the use of drones in Pakistan.
The founder and Director of Reprieve discusses the resumption of miltiary trials and the legalization of indefinite detention at the island prison.
Danny Fitzsimons, a former British soldier and private security contractor, was convicted of killing two colleagues in Iraq while suffering severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The Director of Reprieve's Death Penalty team speaks at a press conference after Danny Fitzsimons is sentenced to life imprisonment by an Iraqi court.
The Director of Reprieve's Death Penalty team speaks at a press conference after Danny Fitzsimons is sentenced to life imprisonment by an Iraqi court.
Reprieve's Chair Ken Macdonald and the mother of executed Brandon Rhode discuss efforts to halt the flow of execution drugs from Britain to the United States.
ITV Granada journalist Matt O'Donoghue reports on the case of Danny Fitzsimons, now facing the death penalty in Iraq.
Reprieve's Director is interviewed about Dream Pharma, the fly-by-night British company selling lethal injection drugs to the US.
The Director of Reprieve's Secret Prisons and Extraordinary Renditions team speaks to CNN about Sharif Mobley, currently held in Yemen.
Reprieve's Director responds to former President Bush's admission that he authorised the use of water-boarding on prisoners.
Tim Cooke-Hurle, investigator for the Secret Prisons and Extraordinary Renditions team on Channel Five News.
Reprieve's investigator debates the use of torture in obtaining intelligence information.
Reprieve's investigator discusses revelations that David Miliband signed off on acts which exposed prisoners to abuse.
BBC journalist Peter Marshall reports from Texas on Linda Carty's case
Watch the Al-Jazeera English coverage of the launch of Death's Waiting Room
See Shabbir Zaib talk about his terrible experiences in a Pakistani prison before he was rescued by Reprieve lawyers.
Clare Algar talks to BBC News about the proposed inquiry
The family of a former soldier facing the death penalty in Iraq are calling for help from the British government to save his life.
Bestselling crime author Martina Cole joins campaign to save Linda Carty from execution.
Reprieve launches legal action against UK government to challenge the lawfulness of secret ‘torture policy’ memoranda.
MI5 denies collusion in torture
Clare Algar speaks to BBC about MI5's alleged collusion in torture.
A team of filmmakers has just returned from visiting Linda Carty on death row. The below video features Linda, her family and her lawyers explaining what went wrong in her trial.
Minister of State Ivan Lewis and psychologist Dr. Schaapveld speaks to Channel 4 about the execution of mentally ill Londoner Akmal Shaikh.
Sally Rowen speaks to BBC News about the execution of Akmal Shaikh
Last minute plea by Prime Minister to save Akmals life turned down
Family of mentally ill man Akmal Shaikh travel to China to plead for his life to be spared.
Sophie Walker speaks to Sky News about the execution of Akmal Shaikh
Marc Callcutt speaks to Sky News about the execution of Akmal Shaikh
Sophie Walker speaks to Sky News about the execution of Akmal Shaikh
Please watch this video about the impending execution of Akmal Shaikh.
Sally Rowen speaks to the BBC about the case of Akmal Shaikh
Paul Hamann's award-winning film follows the last fourteen days in the life of Edward Earl Johnson, a wrongfully convicted young American who was killed in a Mississippi gas chamber on May 20, 1987.
Tara Murray speaks to BBC News about the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Clive Stafford Smith talks about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed standing trial in New York on Newsnight.
Clare Algar speaks to Sky News about the disturbing case of Akmal Shaikh.
Akmal Shaikh believed this song would make him a pop star and bring peace to the world. He faces imminent execution after an unscrupulous gang exploited his delusions.
Revealed: State Ignored Brits' Torture Claims.
Claims that Foreign Office failed to act fast enough for two British men on death row in Pakistan.
Linda Carty pleads for her life from the Fourth Plinth.
In an urgent video appeal, Stephen Fry asks that a British man who suffers from severe mental illness be spared execution in China.
A discussion of Linda Carty's speech from the Fourth Plinth.
Clare Algar dicusses CIA Torture Claims
As Linda loses her appeal, Reprieve begins the fight to prevent her execution.
Clive Stafford Smith talks to BBC Newsnight.
Clara Gutteridge spekas to Channel 4 News.
Executive Director Clare Algar talks to the BBC.
Clive Stafford Smith talks to Channel 4.
Clara discusses allegations of abuse at Bagram.
Anna Morris talks about Samantha Orobator on CNN.
Anna Morris talks about the investigation into Samantha Orobator's pregnancy on ITV News.
Anna Morris talks about Samantha Orobator on ITV news.
Clare Algar talks about Samantha Orobator on Sky News.
Reprieve client Samantha Orobator on Sky News.
Clare Algar talks on Samantha Orobator on BBC News.
Reprieve client Samantha Orobator on BBC News.
Reprieve client Samantha Orobator on Channel 4 News.
Anna Morris talks about Samantha Orobator on CNN.
Anna Morris talks about Samantha Orobator on Channel 4 News.
Clare Algar talks about Binyam Mohamed on CNN.
Clive Stafford Smith and Clare Algar speak to BBC World News Today about Binyam Mohammed.
Clare Algar and Clive Stafford Smith speak on Channel 4 News.
Clive Stafford Smith talks on Binyam Mohamed's on Channel 4 News.
Clare Algar talks about the investigation into MI5's role in Binyam Mohamed's case on Sky News.
Clive Stafford Smith speaks to BBC News about Binyam Mohammed.
Zachary Katznelson speaks on BBC Newsnight about Binyam Mohammed.
Clare Algar talks about Binyam Mohamed on ITV News.
Reprieve represents Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman, both from Birmingham, who face the death penalty in Pakistan. Simon Israel reports on their case.
Clive Stafford Smith speaks to BBC News about Binyam Mohammed.
Clare Algar talks to BBC News about Binyam Mohammed.
Clare Algar talks about Binyam Mohamed on Channel 5.
Clare Algar talks to BBC News about Binyam Mohammed.
Clive Stafford Smith speaks to Channel 4 News about Binyam Mohamed.
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