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  1. Joshua French

    Briton Joshua French at risk in DR Congo prison rebellion

    on 30 November 2011

    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.

  2. Death row - table through window

    Indian pharma company, Naari, demands return of drugs ‘wrongfully diverted’ from developing world to US executions

    on 29 November 2011

    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.

  3. Adel Fattough Ali al Gazzar in Slovakia

    Surprise hearing for ex-Guantánamo prisoner, Adel al Gazzar, re-arrested by Egyptian military

    on 25 November 2011

    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.

  4. Shaker Aamer

    Shaker Aamer, last British resident in Guantánamo Bay, “celebrates” his tenth year imprisoned without charge or trial

    on 24 November 2011

    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.

  5. Yunus Rahmatullah

    Hearing tomorrow 1030am Court of Appeal: Bagram prisoner Yunus Rahmatullah v British Government

    on 23 November 2011

    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.

  6. Linda Carty standing on porch in St Kitts.jpg

    New film on British death row grandmother Linda Carty

    on 21 November 2011

    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.

  7. Yunus Rahmatullah

    Pakistan Government due to report on illegal detentions by US at Bagram prison, Afghanistan

    on 21 November 2011

    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.

  8. Sami Al Saadi

    Libyan victims of MI6, CIA rendition to Gaddafi file criminal complaint with British police

    on 17 November 2011

    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.

  9. Generic Interrogation chair colour

    UK Government defends new system to suppress torture allegations

    on 16 November 2011

    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.

  10. House of Trivia graphic

    Stars gather for Reprieve's innovative House of Trivia gala quiz

    on 10 November 2011

    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.

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