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  1. Rendition Plane N379P

    New rendition data project launches online

    on 22 May 2012

    A new project which brings together all the available data on hundreds of victims of rendition, torture and secret detention launches online today.

  2. Dangerous secret justice plans will still cover up Government wrongdoing

    on 21 May 2012

    Responding to Justice Secretary Ken Clarke’s defence yesterday of the Government’s proposals for secret courts, in which he stated that “We’ll make it the judge that makes the decision,” and claimed, “When I announced what I was proposing last October there was no fuss, everybody agreed,” Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar said:

  3. Ivan Teleguz

    Virginia Judge: “more humane” to allow condemned man to present evidence of innocence

    on 17 May 2012

    A judge in the final appeal hearing of Ivan Teleguz, who is facing the death penalty in Virginia despite key witnesses having renounced their testimony against him, has said it would be “more humane” to allow him to present evidence of his innocence.

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    New film urges corporations to sign 'Pharmaceutical Hippocratic Oath' preventing their drugs being used to kill

    on 17 May 2012

    Reprieve has today released a new video aimed at helping pharmaceutical companies unwillingly caught up in the US death penalty system.

  5. Ivan Teleguz

    Last-ditch court hearing today for innocent Ukrainian Ivan Teleguz facing execution in Virginia

    on 16 May 2012

    A Ukrainian prisoner will make a last-ditch attempt to convince a US court of his innocence today, after the prosecution's key witnesses admitted to lying in his original trial.

  6. Drone from beneath

    Ex-CIA counter-terror chief warns against drone strikes in Yemen

    on 11 May 2012

    The former head of the CIA’s counter-terrorism centre has warned against turning Yemen into “the Arabian equivalent of Waziristan” with drone strikes.

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    US must stand up to Algeria over persecution of ex-Guantánamo prisoner

    on 11 May 2012

    The Algerian government's arbitrary imprisonment of an innocent man continued today as its parliamentary elections were met by notably low voter turnout.

  8. Generic Front page - World map sepia

    Queen’s Speech secret justice plans will put Government above the law

    on 09 May 2012

    Responding to the plans for 'secret justice' and closed courts set out in the Queen's Speech today, Reprieve's Executive Director, Clare Algar said:

  9. Noor Khan and Kareem Khan

    Drones victims sue Pakistan for complicity in CIA killing of 50 villagers

    on 09 May 2012

    An Islamabad-based legal charity has today launched legal action against the Pakistani Government in Peshawar's High Court on behalf of the victims of a deadly CIA drone strike in March 2012.

  10. Generic Front page - Hands through bars colour

    US hospitals face medicine shortages as crucial supplies diverted to executions

    on 08 May 2012

    US hospitals are facing shortages of a key medicine used in surgical anaesthesia as death rows stockpile the same drug for use in executions, new figures have shown.

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