We need to know the truth about UK drones policy
Nick Hopkins' Guardian article gives further proof of our leap into an opaque drone age. It is not that all drones are bad drones; rather, decisions are being made that will ripple through the...
View ArticleUN announces an investigation unit to inquire drone attacks
On 25 October 2012, Ben Emmerson QC, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, announced that a UN investigation unit would be established early next year “to...
View ArticleSecret courts must be stopped
Last week, the House of Lords inflicted heavy defeats on the Government over the secret courts Bill. But unfortunately, the heart of these dangerous plans, which would put ministers above the law and...
View ArticleHuman Rights Day 2012
Today is Human Rights Day, celebrating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. Those who signed the document, 64 years ago today, could scarcely have foreseen...
View ArticleHow UK funding supports executions in Iran
According to the UK government’s own website, it “does not encourage trade with, or investment in Iran, and has withdrawn all commercial support for trade.”This is predominantly due to Iran’s nuclear...
View ArticleDrone strikes remain shrouded in secrecy
In one of his first major speeches from the White House after his inauguration, President Obama quoted Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, stating “I firmly believe…that sunlight is the best...
View ArticleFrozen in time: men held indefinitely in Guantánamo watch as another year...
In 2010 one of Reprieve’s clients, Younis Chikkouri, wrote a letter to his lawyer. In it, he said this: “Think about where you were eight years ago; think of everything that’s happened in your life...
View ArticleJudge Rules That Government Can Withhold Top Secret Evidence from Guantanamo...
In an opinion handed down two days before the international community mourns the 11th anniversary of the first men being sent to Guantanamo Bay, a judge has ruled that the U.S. Government may rely on...
View ArticleFrom one mother to another
I recently returned from maternity leave. I am now the proud mother of an adorable daughter. However, the process of becoming a mother was by no means easy. Towards the end of my pregnancy, I was...
View ArticleWhat is the Sound of a Closed Door Slamming?
The US’ practice of holding people without charge or trial indefinitely has just become more definite. A problem which Obama promised to sort out as his first act as President has just become more...
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