Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice have likened anti-death penalty campaigners to terrorists and hostage-takers in a bid to keep State supplies of lethal injection drug secret.
A Freedom of Information request was recently filed in Texas seeking information on the supplies of sodium thiopental, part of a lethal three-drug cocktail used to execute condemned prisoners. Lawyers for those who ...
on Dec. 17, 2010
Human rights defender Al-Amin Kimathi was today denied bail in Uganda on spurious grounds; Reprieve remains extremely concerned for his safety and wellbeing.
Foreign diplomats and representatives from human rights charities attended the bail hearing, where the judge denied the application. Despite the fact that Al-Amin suffers from serious health problems, the court denied bail, claiming that his medical records ...
on Dec. 16, 2010
International lawyers will today launch legal action in Poland on behalf of Abu Zubaydah, the first victim of the CIA’s experimental torture programme, regarding crimes committed in the CIA’s ‘most important’ secret prison in Stare Kiejkuty, Poland.
Polish lawyer Bartlomiej Jankowski — in cooperation with the British human rights charities INTERIGHTS and Reprieve as well as U.S. lawyers ...
on Dec. 13, 2010
A necklace designed by Vivienne Westwood specially for Reprieve is now on sale, just in time for Christmas, with all proceeds going to our vital work for prisoners on death rows and in Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve is delighted to have once again joined forces with world-renowned fashion-designer Vivienne Westwood. Supermodel and Reprieve volunteer Jacquetta Wheeler collaborated in the design of ...