Reprieve

http://www.reprieve.org.uk/

Last activity: 04.04.2019

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Overview

Location

United Kingdom, England, London

Employees

11-50

Founded date

1999

Mentions in press and media 21

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May 18, 2018	Now that Gina Haspel is CIA Director, It’s Time to Come to Terms With the Torture Program	On Thursday, the Senate voted to make Gina Haspel the next director of the CIA. I don’t know Haspel myself, but I have no reason to doubt that she is someone with a deep-rooted patriotism and a sense of duty to the officers who work under h...
May 10, 2016	UK Could Face Murder Charges Over Covert Drone Strikes, Say MPs	British ministers, intelligence officers, and drone pilots are at risk of criminal prosecution over their role in covert drone strikes abroad, said a parliamentary report published on Tuesday. It calls on the government to "urgently&qu...
Apr 26, 2016	These Are the Juvenile 'Offenders' Saudi Arabia Executed in January	This is the second in a three-part VICE News series on the execution of juveniles in Saudi Arabia, in which we examine the arbitrary and sinister processes which constitute the Saudi justice system and its "counterterrorism" strat...
Apr 11, 2016	UK Accused of Helping Draw Up Secret NATO 'Kill List' of Terrorists and Drug Traffickers	British law enforcement and intelligence agencies have contributed for years to a secret NATO "kill list" of suspected terrorists and drug traffickers, according to a new report. Evidence drawn from court and from documents leaked...
Apr 7, 2016	Britain's Covert War in Yemen: A VICE News Investigation	In a rural valley in southern Yemen lies Wadi Rafad, a collection of farms 50 miles from the provincial capital of Ataq. Amid an arid landscape dotted with lemon orchards and cornfields, villagers were used to the peace being disturbed by t...
Mar 11, 2016	‘Please Help Me to Save My Son’: More Executions of Teenage Protesters Imminent in Saudi Arabia	This is the first in a three-part VICE News series on the execution of juveniles in Saudi Arabia. In parts two and three, we will examine the arbitrary and sinister processes which constitute the Saudi justice system and its "counterte...
Oct 31, 2015	Press Statements on Shaker Aamer's Release	Shaker Aamer, a Saudi citizen and British resident, was transferred from his detention at Guantanamo Bay this morning. The Department of Defense, Reprieve (the organization whose lawyers have represented Aamer in litigation), and Aamer hims...
Oct 28, 2015	The Drone Papers: Intercepting the Nonsense	Editor’s Note: The drone program remains controversial, and critics regularly blast it for creating more terrorists than it kills. Prominent among these critics is Glenn Greenwald, a founding editor of The Intercept, which published an anti...
Apr 30, 2015	UK Tribunal Rules GCHQ Conducted Illegal Surveillance And Must Destroy Legally Privileged Documents	A couple of months ago, we reported on a surprising admission by the UK government that GCHQ has been carrying out illegal surveillance by monitoring privileged conversations between lawyers and their clients. As we noted at the time, the r...
Jan 17, 2015	Obama Will 'Prioritize' the Case of Shaker Aamer, the Last British Detainee at Guantanamo	The case of Shaker Aamer, the last British detainee held captive at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, was a topic of discussion when UK Prime Minister David Cameron met with President Barack Obama in Washington this week. "Prime M...
Nov 25, 2013	Clive Walker on "Deportation With Assurances: UK Experience and Angst"	Clive Walker of the University of Leeds writes in with the following update on national security law news from Britain: On 21 November 2013, the United Kingdom’s government minister with responsibility for counter-terrorism, the Secretary o...
Aug 26, 2013	Today's Headlines and Commentary	Let's begin with the alleged chemical weapons attack east of Damascus last week that prompted a slew of calls for an investigation from the international community---even from Syria's stalwart ally, Russia. The Syrian government, however, i...
Aug 26, 2013	Guantanamo Bay Authorities Ban Solzhenitsyn's 'The Gulag Archipelago'	Some stories, you just couldn’t make up. Like this one, reported on the UK site Reprieve, about a failed attempt to pass some reading material to one of the people detained at Guantanamo Bay. Something unsuitable you might guess, perhaps ad...
Apr 24, 2013	Secret Courts Could Destroy British Justice	A law is being passed that could potentially haul Britain’s judicial system back into the dark ages. It’s called The Justice and Security Bill – set to become effective on the 8th of May – and will give judges the power to deny those on tri...
Apr 14, 2013	Ex-Pakistani President Musharraf's Authority Shot Down (Not by a Drone)	While ex-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was busy admitting on CNN that he approved at least some U.S. drone strikes on Pakistani territory during his time in office, the chief judge of Peshawar’s High Court was busy stating that drone...
Nov 4, 2012	Will Drone Strikes Become Obama's Guantanamo -- Or Romney's?	A year ago, I wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled “Will Drone Strikes Become Obama’s Guantanamo?” in which I argued that unless the Obama Administration did a better job explaining the legal and policy basis for drones strikes, i...
Feb 3, 2012	Cori Crider on Yunus Rahmatullah	Cori Crider of the British human rights group Reprieve stopped by my office yesterday to talk about her client, Yunus Rahmatullah--about whom Bobby has written and who is suddenly the subject of a very delicate bit of U.S.-British diplomacy...
Jan 24, 2012	Non-Afghans at Parwan to be Repatriated	This story in today's Washington Post won't get the attention it would garner if it dealt with Guantanamo, but put it in the category of Very Important if True. According to Post reporters Peter Finn and Julie Tate, The Obama administration...
Dec 14, 2011	UK Court Permits Habeas for US-Held Detainee in Afghanistan (Sort of)	An interesting Afghanistan habeas decision today, from the UK: Yunus Ramhmatullah v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs et ano. (Court of Appeals (Civil Division)). In an opinion by the Master of the Rolls (i.e., David ...
May 10, 2011	Advocacy Group Proposes to Sue Drone Operators in the US	This press release story in the Miami Herald announces that the British advocacy group, Reprieve, is in the midst of developing a litigation strategy designed to stop the United States from conducting drone strikes in Pakistan. That in itse...

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When was Reprieve founded?

Reprieve was founded in 1999.

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Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning Reprieve, among them “Now that Gina Haspel is CIA Director, It’s Time to Come to Terms With the Torture Program” (May 18, 2018) and “UK Could Face Murder Charges Over Covert Drone Strikes, Say MPs” (May 10, 2016).

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Reprieve is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 4, 2019.