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  1. Drone from beneath

    Pakistani human rights group calls for UN resolution to end CIA drone strikes

    on 01 February 2012

    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.

  2. Sami Al Saadi

    Gaddafi opponents sue ex-MI6 counter terror chief Sir Mark Allen over Libya torture complicity

    on 31 January 2012

    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.

  3. Generic Interrogation chair colour

    Cleared Guantánamo detainee Abdul Aziz Naji imprisoned by Algeria after forced return by US

    on 26 January 2012

    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.

  4. Ivan Teleguz

    Іван Телегуз: безневинному українцю винесено смертний вирок у штаті Вірджинія, США

    on 20 January 2012

    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.

  5. Generic - world map digital

    UK Government re-think on flawed torture Inquiry welcome

    on 18 January 2012

    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.

  6. Generic Front page - World map sepia

    Gaddafi opponent responds to UK Police announcement of rendition investigation

    on 12 January 2012

    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...

  7. Generic for Camp Cropper

    Police statement shows serious questions remain for Government over Libya torture complicity

    on 12 January 2012

    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.

  8. Generic Interrogation chair colour

    Press Conference: On the 10th Anniversary of Guantanamo 5 Tunisians Remain

    on 09 January 2012

    11 January 2012 will mark the 10-year anniversary of the opening of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay.

  9. Abdel Hakim Belhadj

    Torture Inquiry criticised as 'deficient' as key anti-Gaddafi figure withdraws

    on 06 January 2012

    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.

  10. Death row - table

    Doctors call on pharma firm Hospira to stop supply of execution drugs

    on 06 January 2012

    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.

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