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Legal provision restricting the right to appeal in death penalty cases struck down as a denial of due process
June 2017In a judgment delivered today, the Privy Council has found unconstitutional a law excluding death row prisoners in St Vincent and the Grenadines (St Vincent) from applying for an extension of time to have their case reviewed by a higher ... read more »
British man avoids death penalty after being acquitted of murder in Kenya
June 2017A British national who was facing the mandatory death penalty for the alleged murder of his girlfriend in Kenya was acquitted on 8th June 2017, as the trial court judge found that the accused had no case to answer, having ... read more »
Mental disorder, the death penalty and international standards in Taiwan
June 2017On 30th May – 2nd June 2017, Co-Executive Director, Saul Lehrfreund, and forensic psychiatrist, Dr Richard Latham, were in Taiwan engaging policymakers and judges and medical professionals on the death penalty, mental disorder and human rights in the criminal justice ... read more »
Engaging Chinese lawyers on the death penalty
June 2017On 3th -4th June the DPP was invited to deliver a series of workshops on international standards and the death penalty for Chinese lawyers. The workshop, co-ordinated by the London-based NGO, The Rights Practice was held in Hong Kong under ... read more »
Norwegian-British prisoner released from death row in DRC amid growing health concerns
May 2017Joshua French, a dual British and Norwegian national who has spent eight years on death row in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has been released from prison on humanitarian grounds and is safely returned to Norway. Joshua French ... read more »
