What we do
We fight for people facing extreme state abuses.
and for the long lasting change that protects thousands more.
How we do it
When people are facing torture, execution or unlawful detention, Reprieve steps in.
We also confront the systems that make these violations possible – turning a single victory into change for thousands.
In 2026, with the rule of law under attack across the world, this is exactly the work the moment demands. Authoritarians have a playbook – but so do we.
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.
Creating change that lasts
At Guantánamo
We didn’t just secure the release of 80 men.
We defeated the US Government in court, successfully challenging the legal architecture of the ‘war on terror’.
In the US
We don’t just help prevent individual executions.
We work with pharmaceutical companies to block the sale of their drugs for use in lethal injections.
In Pakistan
We didn’t just support trafficking survivors facing execution.
We worked with partners to change the law, ending the death penalty for drug offences.
In Malawi, Kenya and Malaysia
We don’t only help to get men and women off death row.
We work with partners on projects that overturn hundreds of death sentences, protecting people for years to come.
In the UK
We didn’t just secure a historic apology for the British state’s role in torture and rendition post 9/11.
We continue to demand stronger safeguards, so it will never happen again.
In Saudi Arabia
We don’t just help to get child defendants off death row.
We continue to fight to end executions for childhood crimes.
Taking Action
Write to the families of Brits detained in North East Syria
Join Reprieve’s call for the UK’s cruel citizenship stripping policy to be abolished
