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.
Reprieve assists British nationals on death row anywhere in the world; we are currently working on 35 cases in 13 different countries.
Akmal Shaikh was executed at 10.30am local time on December 29 in Urumqi, China. Reprieve is appalled that China killed Akmal despite his severe mental illness and vulnerability. Akmal's tragic death is a shocking failure of the Chinese legal system.
Sentenced to death by hanging, Chan King Yu’s conviction was finally quashed by Malaysia’s Federal Court after the police were found to have lied to the court.
Chi Fai Leung, Shun Wa Ng and Kam Chuen Leung are three British nationals from Hong Kong who were acquitted of drug trafficking in April 2008, but remain in prison in Thailand.
After arguing that he was forced by a gang into smuggling drugs, Chu Tak Fai’s death sentence was commuted to life by the King of Malaysia.
British ex-soldier Danny Fitzsimons was arrested in Baghdad's Green Zone following a late-night incident in which two men were fatally shot.
After a confession was beaten out of him, Eric Kong was sentenced to death for participating in a Thai drug smuggling operation.
After a Texas court refused to consider new evidence of his innocence, Jackie Elliott was executed by lethal injection on 4 February 2003.
Dual British/Norwegian national Joshua French, 27, together with Norwegian Tjostolv Moland, 28, has been sentenced to death by firing squad by a military tribunal in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Born in Swindon, 50-year-old Kenny Gay has been on death row in California since 1985 despite a bizarre trial process and dubious case against him.
Scotsman Kenny Richey was on death row for 21 years for alleged involvement in a fire, until his conviction was overturned and he was finally released in January 2008.
Convicted of a murder that was almost certainly carried out by the Medellín drug cartel, 70 year old Krishna Maharaj is the victim of poor representation and prosecution misconduct.
Following revelations that he suffered brain damage caused by a B52 American bomb attack on his house during the Vietnam War, Le Manh Luong’s death sentence for drug trafficking was commuted to life.
After a catastrophically flawed trial, British grandmother Linda Carty was sentenced to death in February 2002 by a Texan court and is now dangerously close to execution.
Mark Arnold is a British national currently on trial in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
After a wrongful conviction by a Sharia court, Mirza Tahir Hussain spent 18 years on Pakistan’s death row – despite the secular Supreme Court ordering that he be released.
After more than five years in prison without trial and having suffered brutal torture at the hands of the police, Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman are currently facing execution in Pakistan.
Durham-born Neil Revill is awaiting trial in California, where the prosecution is seeking the death penalty despite the fact that the police still have other suspects for the crime.
Along with six other men, Paco Larrañaga was convicted of kidnapping two sisters in the Philippines - despite witness testimony to support his claim that he was in another city on the day of the crime.
Arrested at just 17 years old, Ryan Matthews spent five years on Louisiana’s notorious death row before DNA evidence uncovered by Reprieve led to his exoneration and release.
Pregnant 20 year-old Londoner Samantha Orobator was facing execution in Laos but after a brief trial was given a life sentence due to her condition. On 7 August 2009 she was transferred back to the UK to serve her sentence. Reprieve is continuing to fight against her 'show trial' conviction.
After a life of poverty and violence, Tracy Housel was executed by lethal injection at 43 years old for the murder of Jeanne Drew.
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