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If your request is urgent please call or text Head of Communications Andrew Purcell on 07464 162554 or Media Officer Amelia Smith on 07886 620566.

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This is human experimentation: the end of a seven day execution horror
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British activist Jagtar Singh Johal denied bail in India
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Scotland's first minister 'gravely concerned' about Jagtar Singh Johal
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Kenya: Ali Kololo sues Met police for their role in his wrongful conviction
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The Supreme Court has held up its hands, but the British justice system can handle Shamima Begum
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Supreme Court refuses to hear Shamima Begum's citizenship-stripping appeal
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US Senators urge Department of Justice to rescind Trump-era opinion on lethal injection drugs
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US Senators urge Biden administration to stop state officials breaking federal drug control laws for lethal injection executions
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UK government opposes child executions, Cameron tells Lords
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British cultural institutions accused of "art-washing" Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses
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Men's jail in Syria labelled 'world's worst prison'
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Tanzania: Ghati Mwita has spent 15 years behind bars with no evidence against her
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Lack of accountability for 'war on terror' torture casts a long shadow over the Middle East
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Reprieve report finds that racial inequality extends to the death chamber
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Executions of Black people botched more than twice as often as those of white people, says Reprieve report
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Everything you didn’t know about lethal injections: they’re cruel, unusual and racist. 
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Botched executions higher for Black inmates than white
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Black death row inmates' executions botched twice rate of whites
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What happened to the children taken to North East Syria
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What does the death penalty mean for Kenya, a country that doesn't execute?
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MPs express concern as 'torture tip-off' requests double

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