Tag Archives: Reprieve

Reprieve: UK must ask Ethiopia to release Andy Tsege

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Susan Chandler

PM writes to Ethiopia amid fears for death-row Brit March 17, 2016 David Cameron has intervened twice to secure UK access to a Briton who was kidnapped by Ethiopian forces in 2014, it’s emerged, amid Foreign Office concerns that there … Continue reading →

Posted in #torture, UK | Tagged Andargachew Tsege, Andy Tsege, Buzzfeed, David Cameron, death sentence, Ethiopia, Juan Méndez, kidnap, rendition, Reprieve, torture, UN Human Rights Council | Leave a comment

Reprieve: Guantánamo remains open for torture, seven years after @POTUS signed order to close prison

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Susan Chandler

Reprieve +44 (0) 207 553 8140 For immediate release: Thurs Jan 21st, 2016 Guantánamo remains open for torture, seven years after Obama signed order to close prison Tomorrow marks seven years since President Obama signed an Executive Order to … Continue reading →

Posted in #DetainWithoutChargeOrTrial, #Disappear, #Rendition, #torture, Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, detain without charge or trial, force feeding, George W. Bush, Guantánamo, Reprieve, UN | Leave a comment

@POTUS ignores Saudi Arabia’s dastardly mass executions

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Susan Chandler

The U.S. picks and sticks with bedfellows that believe that human rights are for men only, not women or children … and not even all men, at that. This used to be all about the oil. Now perhaps it’s somewhat … Continue reading →

Posted in #CovertOps, #EndlessWar, #ExtrajudicialKillings, #MilitaryIndustrialComplex, Barack Obama, Uncategorized | Tagged Ali al-Ribh, Barack Obama, Equal Rights, Free Speech, human rights, mass executions, Mohammad Shioukh, Mohammad Suweimal, Reprieve, Right to Peaceful Protest, rights of the child, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Law, Sheikh Nimr, UN | 2 Comments

Reprieve: Jack Straw rewriting UK #torture complicity history

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Susan Chandler

Reprieve +44 (0) 207 553 8140 For immediate release: Monday Dec 14, 2015 UK torture complicity: Jack Straw’s comments do not fit with facts Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has reportedly today claimed that “the British government never condoned, nor … Continue reading →

Posted in #DetainWithoutChargeOrTrial, #Disappear, #EndlessWar, #ExtrajudicialKillings, torture, Uncategorized | Tagged Abdul-hakim Belhadj, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Binyam Mohamed, CIA, David Cameron, David Miliband, detain without charge or trial, Diego Garcia, disappear, Fatima Boudchar, Gaddafi, George W. Bush, Guantánamo, Iraq, Jack Straw, John Hutton, Libya, MI6, Morocco, rendition, Reprieve, Sir Mark Allen, Tony Blair, torture, UN Committee Against Torture, UN Committee on Human Rights | Leave a comment

@David_Cameron’s unauthorized targeted killings

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Susan Chandler

Reprieve +44 (0) 207 553 8140 For immediate release: Wed Dec 9th, 2015 Parliament to hear concerns over government’s ‘kill policy’ today The Joint Committee on Human Rights will today hear serious concerns over the government’s new policy of … Continue reading →

Posted in #ColorOfLaw, #CovertOps, #EndlessWar, #ExtrajudicialKillings, #MilitaryIndustrialComplex, #Rendition, Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, David Cameron, endless war, extrajudicial killings, George W. Bush, Lebananon, Reprieve, Syria, Tony Blair, UN, UN Committee on Human Rights, United Nations | Leave a comment

On anniversary of US #TortureReport, UK silent on involvement

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Susan Chandler

Reprieve +44 (0) 207 553 8140 For immediate release: Tues Dec 8th, 2015 One year since US torture report published, no sign of accountability for UK’s role A year since the US Senate published a major report into the … Continue reading →

Posted in #CruelAndUnusualPunishment, #DetainWithoutChargeOrTrial, #EndlessWar, #ExtrajudicialKillings, #Guantánamo, Uncategorized | Tagged CIA Torture Report, David Cameron, detain without charge or trial, Diego Garcia, Guantánamo, Operation Lydd, rendition, Reprieve, Sir Mark Allen, Tony Blair, torture, UK | Leave a comment

Unhappy holidays of #LoveFL’s incarcerated innocents

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Susan Chandler

The Terrible Moral of the Stanford Prison Experiment: Power Corrupts — Even When It’s Only Pretend The experiment had to be stopped in just six days. The subjects of the experiment, all mentally and physically healthy students, were perfectly aware … Continue reading →

Posted in #ColorOfLaw, #CruelAndUnusualPunishment, #DeadInmates, #FrameUps, Uncategorized | Tagged Bruce Colton, Chris White, David Wells, FBI, Gary Bennett, Jack Parker, Jeff Abramowski, Jeff Ashton, Jeffrey Abramowski, John Dean Moxley, John Dobbs, John Preston, Kris Maharaj, Lawson Lamar, Leo Schofield, Monte Adams, Norm Wolfinger, Phil Archer, Reprieve, Rick Scott, Tommy Zeigler, Wayne Ivey, William "Tommy" Zeigler | Leave a comment

.@UN: Kick Saudi Arabia out. #MassExecutions

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Susan Chandler

Reprieve +44 (0) 207 553 8140 For immediate release: Wed Dec 2, 2015 Saudi Arabia to execute 52 prisoners, including juveniles, en masse The government of Saudi Arabia is preparing to execute some 52 prisoners at once, including several … Continue reading →

Posted in #DeathPenalty, #MaliciousProsecutions, Uncategorized | Tagged Abdullah al-Zaher, Ali al-Nimr, Dawoud al-Marhoon, mass executions, Reprieve | 1 Comment

Reprieve: Pakistan govt stays execution of paraplegic man

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Susan Chandler

Reprieve +44 (0) 7791 755 415 For immediate release: Tue Nov 24, 2015 Pakistan govt stays execution of paraplegic man The Pakistan government has stayed the exection of Abdul Basit, a paralysed man who had been set to hang at … Continue reading →

Posted in #DeathPenalty, Uncategorized | Tagged Abdul Basit, cruel and unusual punishment, Pakistan, Reprieve | Leave a comment

Reprieve: Some 72% of 588 Egyptian death sentences were for attending pro-democracy protests

Posted on November 14, 2015 by Susan Chandler

Reprieve +44 (0) 7792 351 660 For immediate release: Sat Nov 14th, 2015 Egypt sentenced nearly 600 to death last year The Egyptian government has sentenced nearly 600 people to death in the last year, with the vast majority … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, coerced confession, death sentence, Egypt, Free Speech, mass trial, Reprieve, right to assemble, torture, UK, UN Committee on Human Rights, US | Leave a comment