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 investigates extra-judicial proxy detention and military detention around the world and reunites 'disappeared' prisoners with their legal rights.
Afghanistan and the US secret prison system
Mr. Amanatullah has been held beyond the rule of law for over five years in Bagram Prison.
British Indian Ocean Territory Diego Garcia has been used for illegal rendition and detention of prisoners including Mustafa Setmarian Naser and Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni.
The limit of the law in Djibouti
The Queen of Sheba and renditions in East Africa
The ‘informer’ whose false statements – obtained by torture – were used to justify the Iraq war, is now reported to have died in custody in Libya.
Kenya's role in the US rendition and secret prison network
Located directly under the Ministry of Interior, Ahmed El Maati was secretly held in this state security branch for several weeks in July 2002.
Mamdouh Habib was arrested on October 5, 2001 in Karachi, Pakistan.
Detained in Jakarta on 9 January 2002, Madni was rendered to torture in Egypt via Diego Garcia, and subsequently held in Bagram and Guantanamo Bay.
Part of the Tora Prison Complex, Ahmed Agiza and Muhammed al-Zari report that they were regularly subjected to electric shocks and other torture in Mulhaq Mazra.
'Ghost' prisoner Mustafa Nasar was seized in Pakistan in 2005 and handed to US forces. He was then secretly flown to British Overseas Territory Diego Garcia and almost certainly held there. Since then he has completely disappeared.
Run by Syrian Military Intelligence, this prison is known for its brutal interrogation methods.
A vast Afghan prison complex, Pol-e-Charki contains a new American-financed high-security wing called the Afghan National Defence Facility.
A former Soviet-era military compound, Szymany is the biggest CIA jail in Poland, and has been described as the main base for CIA interrogations in Europe.
Rendered via the Balkans to Egypt and subsequently killed, Tal’at Fu’ad Qassim is is the first known rendition by the U.S. government to a third country with a record of torture.
Located in the headquarters of the Direction de la Securité du Territoire (DST), the Moroccan secret police, Témara was used to torture Binyam Mohamed for 18 months.
Afghanistan’s most notorious prison chains prisoners in total darkness, with heavy metal music blaring for weeks at a time.
Housed in an old brick factory outside of Kabul's business district to the north of the city, the Salt Pit was considered by many to be the largest CIA prison in Afghanistan.
This complex includes Istikbal Tora prison, Mazra Tora prison and its annex Mulhaq Mazra, the Leman Tora pison and its hospital and Scorpion high security prison.
USS Bataan is one of the US government’s most infamous 'floating prisons'. Prison ships have been used by the US to hold terror suspects illegally since the days of President Clinton.
The USS Peleliu held around 8 detainees before they were transferred to the USS Bataan.
Prisoner B, who Reprieve believes to be Mr. Rahmatullah, has been held beyond the rule of law for over five years in Bagram Prison.
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