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Our legal work provides a lifeline to vulnerable prisoners and has helped to develop the law around the world. These are some of the stories of our work.

Jainarine Persaud

  • D.O.B: 15 June 1957
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Ongoing Case
  • Death penalty

Former death row prisoner Jainarine Persaud has spent over three decades in prison in Trinidad & Tobago…

Lavern Longsworth

  • D.O.B: 27 September 1974
  • Belize
  • Closed Case
  • Domestic abuse; mental health

Lavern killed her abusive husband. Her murder conviction was quashed after she was found to suffer from Battered Wo…

Trono Davis

  • D.O.B: 16 October 1977
  • The Bahamas
  • Ongoing Case
  • Death penalty

Trono Davis has spent nineteen years, nearly all his adult life, in prison in the Bahamas, including eight years sp…

Susan Kigula

  • Uganda
  • Closed Case
  • Mandatory death penalty; death penalty

Susan spent almost a decade under sentence of death in Uganda. She became the lead applicant in a case that led to …

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