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.
At long last, two High Court judges have told the Government what any sane person already knew.
Issuing yet another judgment in Binyam Mohamed’s case, the judges said that no rational person can argue that evidence of torture qualifies as intelligence.
“It cannot be suggested,” the judges wrote, “that information as to how officials of the US Government admitted treating [Binyam] during his interrogation is information that can in any democratic society governed by the rule of law be characterised as ‘secret’ or as ‘intelligence’.”
No indeed. The material at stake relates to Binyam’s “allegation that he had ...
Extra--David Miliband is not happy over today's loss in the Binyam Mohamed case. He's just vowed a brave battle all the way up to the ramparts of the High Court to save the "inviolable principle" of opacity in intelligence sharing.
For those tuning in, this fuss is over all of seven paragraphs. I haven't read them, but the British Court has been absolutely clear what the paragraphs contain. They do not out an agent; they do not crack a code. What they do, apparently, is recite some of the abuse meted out on poor Binyam by US ...
I find it hard to understand the logic of Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuania’s President and it is not just because I don’t speak Lithuanian. On Tuesday Grybauskaitė wrote to President Obama congratulating him on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying in her letter to him, “Your call for the new beginning where America leads, but also works together with each and everybody to achieve what is a common goal has been answered.”
But when it comes to closing Guantánamo Bay, Grybauskaitė appears to be letting the beleaguered President’s calls for help reverberate through the Lithuanian forests with no ...
Someone diagnosed with bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic depression) 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.
Stephen Fry talks about his own experiences with bipolar disorder: having discovered how serious an illness it is, he decided to speak out about it and find out more. In a documentary that can be watched here, he investigates bi-polar disorder and meets with the singer Robbie Williams and the actress Carrie Fischer who have suffered from those disorders too.
In its most severe ...
"You know, I just don't see how he's going to do it. Is he planning to put two-hundred-odd men on a plane January 21st and ship them to God knows where?"
That was Adel al Gazzar at our last meeting at Guantánamo. The sentiment he voiced echoes through the halls of the prison these days. There is a heavy hush of two hundred men just...waiting. Tallying the days since a promise was made. Counting their freed fellows on two hands. It doesn't take long to count to 19.
Adel's a savvy guy, and could easily ...
Last week, she came to London to share her experience and thoughts about the death penalty. A board member of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, Cathy talks about her spiritual journey as well as her thoughts about the judicial process in the US and the death penalty: an enlightening testimony which deeply affected all of us.
In her own words:
"What the death penalty does -- and we (the murder victims' families) are so clear about this, I am -- is it creates more victims".
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.
The use of the death penalty for crimes committed by people younger than 18 is prohibited under international human rights law. Protecting children implies protecting them from any act which could damage their basic rights.
With the adoption by the UN of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in ...
The Dallas Morning news reports of four Texas arson cases under scrutiny, following the highly controversial Willingham case in which respectable fire experts all concluded that evidence used to convict and execute Cameron Todd Willingham was based on debunked science.
It is now widely acknowledged that although Willingham was executed in 2004, he was surely innocent, and four new cases are now under the spotlight:
The police concluded that Willis was guilty, based on a polygraph test, the "evidence" that flammable material had been used, and that the "evidence" that the fire had started in different origin points ...
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.
He made the demand following reports that the device, currently made in China, had become available on the market in parts of the Arab world for $US15. The device is supposed to release a liquid imitating blood, thus allowing women to possibly feign virginity on their wedding night. It is also meant to be a cheap and easy alternative option to hymen repair surgery, which is carried out in secret ...
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