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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · 1d

Jagtar has been totally acquitted of the allegations against him after a seven-year trial. The prosecution "miserably failed" to produce any credible evidence.

Keir Starmer is uniquely well-placed to succeed where his predecessors failed, and bring Jagtar home to his family in Dumbarton.

Sir Keir urged to use India trip to call for release of Briton Jagtar Singh Johal

Sikh activist was detained and imprisoned by Indian authorities in 2017

www.independent.co.uk

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · 1d

The PM raised Jagtar’s case with Modi during his visit to London but, the letter says, “raising the case is not enough. Ministers in the previous govt raised Jagtar’s case more than 100 times, but he remains in prison and it’s hard to see that progress was made as a result of these interventions.”

Arbitrary detention victims urge Starmer to press Modi on jailed British Sikh

Activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in Indian prison for nearly eight years without full trial

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Purcell @andrewpurcell.bsky.social · Aug 22

“It is an indisputable fact that Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia executes people for childhood crimes... The penalty for dissent is death, whether the person criticizing the regime is 15 or 50 years old.” @reprievehq.bsky.social

Saudi Arabia executes man over protests he attended as a 15-year-old

Jalal al-Labbad and his brothers were imprisoned over charges stemming from participation in Arab Spring protests. He and one of his brothers have since been executed.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 15

6/6 - As states rush to execute more people, it’s more important than ever to fight back, expose abuses and demand justice.
Reprieve analysed every botched execution in the modern era in this ground-breaking report – discover all our learnings here 👇 reprieve.org/uk/2024/04/1...

Everything you didn’t know about lethal injections: they’re cruel, unusual and racist.

America’s capital punishment system is broken. Lethal injection, the most popular execution method in the US, was touted as a more humane than previous methods. This couldn’t be further from the truth...

reprieve.org

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 15

5/6 - Lethal injection - the dominant method of execution in the US - regularly goes wrong causing horrific pain for condemned prisoners.

The death penalty doesn’t work – it merely perpetuates a cycle of violence. There is no ‘humane’ way to execute someone.

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 15

4/6 - This disturbing trend isn’t just at a national level. It will be the 8th execution in Florida this year.

Florida has never executed 9 people in a single year since capital punishment resumed in 1976 – and there’s another execution scheduled later this month.

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 15

3/6 - There were as many executions in the first half of this year as in all of 2024.

President Trump’s pro-death penalty administration has sent strong signals to states to push forward with executions, and it appears they are getting the message.

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Should this evening’s execution go ahead in Florida, it will be the 26th execution in the US this year. That's more than any full year since 2015 - and it's only July.

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚨 The U.S. 🇺🇸 is set to hit its highest execution rate in 10 years - a grim and terrifying escalation.

Here’s what you need to know - 🧵1/6

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 15

Civilians Salem and Waleed Bin Ali Jaber were killed by a US strike in 2012. The family has been seeking accountability with ECCHR and Reprieve's help.

"Our hearts are broken, and our faith in international law is shaken," they said, in response to the ruling. "Where else can we turn for justice?”

ECCHR - European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights @ecchr.bsky.social · Jul 15

The Federal Constitutional Court finds no grounds for protection for victims of US drone strikes in Yemen. However, the door remains open for future proceedings in cases of possible violations of international law involving German participation. www.ecchr.eu/pressemittei...
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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 15

Think this couldn't happen here in UK🇬🇧 ? Think again.

Until we end citizenship stripping, this extreme power will be available to the Home Secretary, whichever party is in government.

news.sky.com/story/donald...

Donald Trump threatens to revoke Rosie O'Donnell's US citizenship

O'Donnell responded to the US president's threat by posting a photograph of him with Jeffrey Epstein on Instagram.

news.sky.com

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 7

"The billions spent on so-called reforms, designed to promote a more tolerant and inclusive kingdom under the crown prince’s rule, mask an authoritarian state where daily executions for drug crimes are now the norm.”

Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 7

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman could do a lot more to stop the surge in executions if he wanted to, Reprieve's head of MENA Jeed Basyouni told Associated Press:

“He could do mass pardons. He could insist on rewriting laws so that they are in line with international law."

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 7

More than half of those executed this year were foreign nationals: mainly Egyptians, Somalis, Pakistanis and Ethiopians.

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jul 7

Saudi Arabia is on track to break its own grim record for number of executions carried out in one year, with a significant rise in executions for drugs.

Today, Associated Press reported on the findings of Reprieve's execution monitoring in the first six months of 2025: apnews.com/article/saud...

Executions in Saudi Arabia reach a record high mostly over drug cases, Amnesty says

Amnesty International says executions in Saudi Arabia hit a record high last year, with 345 people put to death.

apnews.com

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨 4 Reprieve clients face execution in Saudi Arabia—
IN THE 24H🚨

Time is running out for Rami Al Najjar, Ahmed Zeinhom, Hesham Telesi and Abdelfattah Kamal, convicted of non-violent drug crimes.

Share this now to tell the Saudi regime that these executions must be halted! 📢

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Middle East Democracy Center @mideastdc.org · Jun 15

We are outraged by the execution of Turki al-Jasser, a courageous Saudi journalist & writer who exposed royal corruption online. Our hearts are with his loved ones.

Nearly 7 years since MBS ordered the murder of #JamalKhashoggi with impunity, MBS has only been emboldened.
apnews.com/article/saud...

Saudi Arabia executes a journalist after 7 years behind bars. Activists say it was over his tweets

Saudi Arabia has executed a prominent Saudi journalist who was arrested seven years ago and convicted on terrorism and treason charges.

apnews.com

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jun 10

“The death penalty remains unpopular and practiced by a very small number of states. In those states, you see an increased willingness to do whatever it takes to carry out executions. The result is we’re more likely to see executions go wrong.”

US to put four prisoners to death this week as Trump pushes for executions

Killings scheduled in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina despite concern over states’ methods

www.theguardian.com

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jun 10

"This is a dark time in US capital punishment. The dominant method of execution, lethal injection, is broken. Yet through his executive order on the death penalty, President Trump has sent a strong signal to states to push forward with executions."

4 executions are scheduled in 4 states over four days this week. Here’s what we know | CNN

Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be put to death – a cluster that, while not abnormal – comes amid a national uptick in executions as President Donald Trump calls ...

edition.cnn.com

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jun 9

"For as long as the UK Government fails to warn Britons of the dangers of travelling to Saudi Arabia, and fails to stand up for its citizens arbitrarily detained abroad, other families like ours are at risk of being torn apart," she said.

Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jun 9

Ahmed's wife Amaher Nour has called on Britons considering travelling to Saudi Arabia to "think hard about whether it's worth the risk."

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jun 9

"The FCDO does update travel advice - it recently updated the travel advice for the USA to highlight the risk of detention at the border."

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jun 9

Here's an excerpt from our letter: "Saudi Arabia is investing $800 billion to transform their tourism sector and attract more visitors, yet few will be aware that an old, deleted social media post could lead to them being abducted and potentially sentenced to death."

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jun 9

These risks are underscored by the case of Ahmed Al-Doush, a British father who was abducted at Riyadh airport in front of his family, faced the threat of the death penalty and was recently sentenced to ten years in prison over his social media posts.

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · Jun 9

We wrote to the Foreign Office urging the government to update its travel advice to Saudi Arabia so British nationals are fully informed of the risks to their safety should they visit the country. The Daily Mail reported on our letter👇🏽

Wife's warning as man jailed for a decade after visiting tourist spot

Ahmed al-Doush, a senior business analyst at Bank of America, lived in Manchester before the day of his arrest when he was swooped on at an airport on August 31 last year as he prepared to fly home.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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