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\"Keith<\/a>
UK Home Secretary Theresa May and Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reprieve needs your help in securing an urgent Parliamentary Inquiry into Home Office \u201caid for executions\u201d.<\/p>\n

In recent years the UK Home Office has been Europe\u2019s largest funder of brutal overseas raids which see drug mules sent to death row.<\/p>\n

Reprieve\u2019s investigation has revealed that the Home Office has given at least \u00a320million worth of support to aggressive law enforcement operations in countries which execute drug offenders, such as Iran and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Home Office funding frequently comes with targets which end up encouraging death sentences, and Reprieve has identified a number of specific cases where UK support has enabled executions.<\/p>\n

Right now there are at least 5 British drug offenders on Pakistan\u2019s death row<\/a>, who were almost certainly caught with Home Office support. Despite its funding for the force which arrested these Britons, the UK has not been able to convince the Pakistani authorities to reveal their names, so they have been abandoned on death row without any support from their government.<\/p>\n

The Home Office is charged\u00a0with\u00a0developing and implementing the UK\u2019s international drug policy,\u00a0and should act to reflect Britain\u2019s opposition to the death penalty. However, the Home Office has refused to permit parliamentary or public scrutiny of its overseas counter-narcotics initiatives, and will not disclose any details regarding the cost, focus or effectiveness of these programmes.<\/p>\n

Back in 2012 Parliament\u2019s Home Affairs\u00a0Committee recommended <\/a>that the UK government \u2018ensure that no British or European funding is used to support practices that could lead to capital punishment, torture, or other violations<\/em><\/strong>\u2019. This recommendation has clearly been ignored.<\/p>\n

Reprieve is now calling for an urgent inquiry by the Home Affairs Committee into the Home Office\u2019s \u201caid for executions\u201d. As The Guardian reported this weekend, we have joined individuals like Richard Branson and charities like Human Rights Watch<\/a> in signing an open letter<\/a> which has put this request in writing. Now we are asking all our supporters to email Committee Chairman Keith Vaz and support our call for an inquiry.<\/p>\n

Click here to email Keith Vaz<\/strong> and call for an Inquiry<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

To learn more about the issue, please see our new interactive\u00a0European Aid For Executions map<\/a>. The map displays the counter-narcotics aid given to Pakistan and Iran by individual EU countries, and also details the number of executions this aid has enabled.<\/p>\n

Join Reprieve in our fight against the death penalty.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Donate now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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