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.
on Oct. 16, 2009
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.
on Oct. 12, 2009
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.
on Sept. 23, 2009
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.
on Sept. 18, 2009
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.
on Sept. 10, 2009
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.
on Sept. 9, 2009
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.
on Sept. 2, 2009
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.
on Aug. 26, 2009
22 British nationals now face execution abroad, says new Foreign Office report; Reprieve urges families to approach us for immediate assistance.
on Aug. 26, 2009
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.
on Aug. 25, 2009
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’.
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