Reprieve

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Reprieve

Reprieve is an international legal action charity. Reprieve's mission is to use strategic interventions to fight the use of the death penalty, secret prisons and targeted assassinations by governments, whilst challenging the notion that such abuses can ever be justified. We have three interconnected casework teams working on the death penalty, assassinations and secret prisons. Reprieve provides free legal and investigative support to people facing the death penalty and those victimised by abusive counter-terrorism policies. We fight to end the world's most extreme human rights abuses. We promote the rule of law around the world and secure each person's right to a fair trial, equal treatment, and freedom from torture. Reprieve's vision is a world without the death penalty, secret prisons, and state-sanctioned assassinations.

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On 2025 World Drug Day and Support. Don’t Punish Global Day of Action, 70 organizations call upon the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to condemn the use of the death penalty from drug related offences. In this joint statement, the signatories demand that human rights safeguards are implemented to uphold international law and standards.
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EU urged to clarify if states are funding mass executions in Iran

EU urged to clarify if states are funding mass executions in Iran

Reprieve has called for “urgent clarification of the European Commission’s policy on funding counter-narcotics operations in Iran”, following reports in the Iranian media that a UNODC official said the EU was actively seeking to provide support for Iranian drug enforcement operations.