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Reprieve

December 17, 2020

MI6 may have unilaterally assumed power to break law on UK soil

The Government is seeking to put these practices into legislation with the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill.
November 16, 2020

US journalist demands to know if he is on a government Kill List

Bilal Abdul Kareem is an award-winning African American journalist who believes he has been targeted for assassination by the US because of his work covering the conflict in Syria.
November 11, 2020

Cross-party Committee calls for clear limits on MI5 crimes

We cannot pass a law that leaves open the possibility of state-sanctioned rape, murder or torture, says the Committee Chair.
November 2, 2020

Case proceeds against Saudi child defendant facing death penalty

Mohammed al Faraj was 15 years old when he was arrested outside a bowling alley in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
October 20, 2020

UK refuses to assist Police Scotland investigation into torture and rendition

Police Scotland are investigating the use of Scottish airports to facilitate torture and rendition in 2013, and the Lord Advocate in 2014 ordered them to examine potentially vital evidence held in the US Senate report.
October 17, 2020

Commons passes agent crime bill without limits

The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, which grants every police force in Britain, MI5 and a broad range of other governmental bodies the power to authorise undercover agents to commit crimes, has passed its third reading in the Commons
October 14, 2020

UN experts condemn failure to repatriate families from Syrian camps

Richard Barrett, a former director of global counter-terrorism at MI6 has advocated strongly for bringing British families back to the UK.
September 18, 2020

MP demands access to secret hearings on torture

The Government’s push for secrecy follows the emergence of evidence revealing that there may be at least 15 further cases where the UK was complicit in torture and rendition.
September 12, 2020

'De facto decriminalisation of torture' to be debated in Commons

The Overseas Operations Bill protects the Government at the expense of our men and women in uniform, says Reprieve.
August 29, 2020

Saudis to review all death sentences for childhood crimes

The Saudi Human Rights Commission has announced that the death sentences of Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher, sentenced as juvenies, have been referred for review, following a recent royal decree mandating that the maximum punishment for childhood crimes should be ten years imprisonment.