Help fight for justice
Reprieve fights for people facing torture, unlawful detention and the death penalty. We’ve been doing it for over 25 years.
Authoritarian abuses are on the rise globally – we know how to fight back.
Our impact
Reprieve is a small charity with a big impact. Working alongside expert partners, we’ve:
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Stopped more than 600 executions
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Won freedom for over 80 men from Guantánamo
1200
Secured access to justice for more than 1,200 people denied their right to a fair trial
100
Fought for more than 100 people indefinitely detained in North East Syria
Read Ishmael's story
Country
Malawi
Case Type
Death Penalty
Outcome
Released
Stand with us
Reprieve fights for people facing torture, unlawful detention and the death penalty.
Authoritarian abuses are on the rise globally - we know how to fight back
The issues we tackle
We fight for people facing extreme state abuses – and for the lasting change that protects thousands more.
End the death
penalty
We work to prevent executions, get people off death row and campaign for abolition of the death penalty. A world without capital punishment is possible.
End unlawful
detention
From CIA torture chambers to “Europe’s Guantánamo” in North East Syria, Reprieve fights for people indefinitely detained without trial.
Stop citizenship
stripping
Reprieve is fighting to abolish citizenship stripping – an extreme power where people can be stripped of fundamental rights at the stroke of a politician’s pen.
Stop the use of
torture
Reprieve fights to get justice for people have been tortured – and challenges the systems that enabled the abuse.
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Jagtar Singh Johal
Jagtar Singh Johal has been imprisoned in India since 2017, facing a death sentence on trumped-up political charges.
Latest updates
Published: 03/09/26
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UK POLICE TRAINING FORCES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS-ABUSING GOVERNMENTS - REPRIEVE AND DECLASSIFIED
A new investigation by Declassified has found that British police have run more than a dozen training sessions since 2023 for countries that the UK Government has flagged for their poor human rights record. Declassified’s FOI revealed that the UK’s College of Policing has run multiple training sessions…
Published: 11/12/25
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New research exposes racist reality of UK citizenship stripping laws - 3 in 5 people of colour are at risk
A report released today by the Runnymede Trust and Reprieve shows that up to nine million people are vulnerable to having their British citizenship stripped, three million more than previously estimated. People of colour are twelve times as likely to be at risk as their white peers. This…
Published: 01/10/26
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Jagtar Singh Johal released on bail
Who is Jagtar Singh Johal Jagtar Singh Johal has been arbitrarily detained and living with the threat of a death sentence in India for over eight years. Jagtar is a Scottish blogger and activist who drew attention to historic human rights abuses against India’s Sikh population. In November…