1. Watch a short film of the launch of Death's Waiting Room
  2. Cameron urged to help Guantanamo detainee Belbacha
  3. Omar Khadr's trial flouts international norms
  4. New interrogation tapes reveal Moroccan role in CIA prison system
  5. Reprieve launches investigation into systematic torture of British citizens by Pakistani police in Pakistan Police Torture Project
  6. Engaging Europe in the US death penalty fight: Can we help on your capital case?

Watch a short film of the launch of Death's Waiting Room

on Aug. 31, 2010

Includes footage of Anna Chancellor reading Linda's speech.

Includes footage of Anna Chancellor reading Linda's speech.

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Cameron urged to help Guantanamo detainee Belbacha

on Aug. 20, 2010

Ahmed Belbacha

by Paddy McGuffin, Morning Star, 19/08/2010

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Omar Khadr's trial flouts international norms

by Emma Draper
on Aug. 18, 2010



There are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers around the world. Yet the trial of Omar Khadr is the first instance in modern history of a government prosecuting a former child soldier for war crimes.

At the age of 15, Omar was captured in Afghanistan after a four-hour firefight, and accused of throwing a grenade that killed an American soldier ...

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New interrogation tapes reveal Moroccan role in CIA prison system

by Clara Gutteridge
on Aug. 18, 2010


The AP reported yesterday that the CIA had produced new video-tapes showing the interrogations of Guantánamo Bay prisoner Ramzi bin al-Shibh, whilst he was being held at a secret CIA prison in Morocco in 2002.

The stash of tapes - found under a desk at the CIA's counter-terrorism office - reveal that there is more evidence of the CIA's torture ...

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Reprieve launches investigation into systematic torture of British citizens by Pakistani police in Pakistan Police Torture Project

on July 2, 2010

Reprieve has today launched a new investigative project tackling the culture of torture and impunity in police stations across Pakistan.

Reprieve has today launched a new investigative project tackling the culture of torture and impunity in police stations across Pakistan. 

The Pakistan Police Torture Project was inspired by Reprieve’s work defending British citizens on Pakistan’s death row, which has revealed consistent evidence of widespread police torture across the region.

With investigative teams based in Birmingham and Pakistan, Reprieve ...

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Engaging Europe in the US death penalty fight: Can we help on your capital case?

on June 8, 2010

Death row - cell

Do your clients have ties to foreign countries? Could they have a claim to foreign nationality? If so, Reprieve can help…

In September 2009 Reprieve launched a three-year project funded by the European Commission – the EC Project. The Project works alongside capital defense lawyers to meet their obligations under the ABA Guidelines, to: ‘make appropriate efforts to determine whether any ...

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