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drone strikes

March 19, 2019

UK ‘on notice’ as court rules Germany failed to protect innocent civilians from US drones

A German court has ruled that the UK Government must ensure its territory is not used by the US to carry out unlawful drone strikes in Yemen.
March 14, 2019

German court to hear drone strikes complicity case

If the case succeeds it would be a warning to other European countries, such as the UK, that support and facilitate the US drone programme.
February 28, 2019

Interfaith letter opposes lethal CIA drone strikes

The letter says drone strikes insulate policy-makers and public from the true moral and emotional costs of taking life.
May 3, 2018

Trump administration fails to release casualty figures on drone strikes

The Trump administration has failed to comply with a 2016 executive order requiring the release of annual casualty statistics on drone and other lethal strikes.
March 8, 2018

Call for President Trump to publish lethal drones policy

Human rights organisations have called on President Trump to urgently publish his policy on the use of lethal force abroad after he reportedly changed the rules to reduce oversight and roll back safeguards.
February 5, 2018

Government policy on drones 'in chaos'

Reprieve says the government’s policy on when it will target people with drone strikes around the world is in chaos, after a crucial line in an official document was quietly deleted.
January 6, 2018

Upper Tribunal rejects government's blanket security claim on drone strikes

In a decision published on 2 January 2018, the Upper Tribunal has decided that the ‘security bodies’ exemption under the Freedom of Information Act should not have been applied in a blanket fashion to exempt the legal advice that formed the basis of the lethal drone strike that killed two British citizens in August 2015.
October 6, 2017

Drone victim asks Supreme Court to check Trump’s use of lethal powers

A Yemeni man whose relatives were killed in a US drone strike has asked the Supreme Court to exercise its powers of oversight over President Trump’s use of lethal force.
July 1, 2017

US judge says democracy 'broken' as court declines to oversee drone strikes

A senior judge yesterday pronounced American democracy "broken" and Congressional oversight a "joke" in failing to check the US drone killing programme.
May 1, 2017

Government secrecy on UK drone strikes ‘profoundly disappointing’ say MPs

Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee has criticised the government for refusing to disclose information about the intelligence behind a 2015 UK drone strike in Syria, calling the lack of Parliamentary scrutiny “profoundly disappointing.”