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🚨BREAKING: The House of Lords has voted to remove clause 9 of the Nationality and Borders Bill, which seeks to create new powers to strip British nationals of their citizenship without even telling them.
This is a huge win. 1/3
🚨BREAKING: Oldest Guantánamo detainee released after almost 20 years detained without charge or trial.
This is a huge win but Saifullah Paracha, 75, returns to his family a frail old man, after being taken in the prime of his life. That injustice can never be rectified. 🧵
BREAKING: Nagaenthran Dharmalingam has been executed.
His name will go down in history as the victim of a tragic miscarriage of justice.
Hanging an intellectually disabled man because he was coerced into carrying less than 3 tablespoons of diamorphine is clearly unjustifiable🧵
Thank you to everyone who has helped campaign against clause 9 and to all of the Peers who voted to remove it, including Baroness D'Souza,
@SayeedaWarsi
and Baroness Mobarik who made this intervention today. 3/3
MPs must follow suit and strike this discriminatory provision from the Bill.
Citizenship stripping disproportionately affects ethnic minority British communities, who are made to feel like second class citizens. 2/3
Ahmed Rabbani faced the greatest injustice.
The CIA mistook him for someone else and tortured him for 545 days. He remains in
#Guantanamo
today even though the person the CIA were looking for was found and released.
Ahmed has been on a hunger strike since July 3.
🚨BREAKING: Saudi Arabia’s Court of Appeal has decided to uphold a death sentence for child defendant Abdullah al-Howaiti.
The Saudi justice system continues to rely on the torture-induced 'confession' of a 14-year-old boy to convict him for a crime he could not have committed🧵
BREAKING 🚨: Ahmed Rabbani has been released from
#Guant
ánamo Bay after more than 20 years of detention without trial.
Thanks to many of you in this community, Ahmed is finally on his way to meet his son for the first time.
A THREAD 🧵 1/6
BREAKING: Our client Abdul Latif Nasser has been released from
#Guantanamo
. He was cleared for release on July 11, 2016 - more than 5 years ago. Today, he is finally back on Moroccan soil.
This wouldn't have happened without the campaigning of this community. Thank you. 🧡
🚨BREAKING: Our client, Jagtar Singh Johal, is taking the UK Government to court.
We've uncovered critical information that MI5 & MI6 might have shared information about Jagtar that led to his unlawful arrest and torture in India.
#FreeJaggiNow
A THREAD🧵
Thank you to everyone who helped campaign for Saifullah’s release.
He once described life at Guantánamo as “being alive in your own grave”.
US embrace of indefinite detention without trial has done lasting damage. We can only begin to repair it when we
#CloseGuant
ánamo
British man Jagtar Singh Johal was abducted by plainclothes police officers in India and tortured until he ‘confessed’. The Indian Government is trying to portray Jagtar as a violent extremist but the reality is that his forced ‘confession’ is the only evidence used against him.
Saifullah is finally being reunited with his family but Ahmed Rabbani, Abdul Malik Bajabu and Khalid Qasim are still in Guantánamo, with no idea when they’ll be let out even though they’ve all been cleared for release.
Tell Biden to release them now ✍️
5 years ago today, British citizen Jagtar Singh Johal was abducted by Indian authorities. Not one UK Prime Minister has sought his release in all that time.
So, Jagtar’s brother,
@GSJohal85
, left
@10DowningStreet
a message where they can't miss it.
Saifullah was a successful businessman and philanthropist, kidnapped by US personnel while in Thailand on a business trip.
He was rendered to Bagram air base, a US black site notorious for horrific torture of detainees. A year later, he was flown to Guantánamo in shackles.
Yesterday, 81 men were executed in Saudi Arabia.
@BorisJohnson
is due to visit Saudi this week - to beg for their oil to replace Russian gas.
Demand he cancel his trip to Saudi Arabia and condemn the killings. He cannot trade oil for blood in our name.
Jagtar Singh Johal is a British man who was tortured until he 'confessed'.
Because of that so-called 'confession', he has been locked up in an Indian prison for over 3 years and now faces the threat of a death sentence.
#FreeJaggi
#FreeJaggiNow
His health severely deteriorated during US custody, including two heart attacks.
He was unanimously cleared for release in May 2021 by US security agencies but has only now been released and repatriated to Pakistan.
🚨 BREAKING: we’ve just learned that our client, Abdul Malik Bajabu, has been cleared for release from Guantánamo. This is amazing news. President Biden must begin releasing the uncharged men immediately.
Today marks 1,200 days since British man Jagtar Singh Johal was abducted by plainclothes police officers in India. He was tortured and remains locked up without any legal basis.
Now, he faces the threat of a death sentence.
Here’s what you need to know about Jagtar Singh Johal:
◾ He is British.
◾ He is a human rights activist.
◾ He was tortured.
◾ He is detained without any legal basis.
◾ He faces the threat of a death sentence in India.
Today is my brother’s birthday. It’s the sixth year he’s spent it behind bars.
I haven’t seen him in over five years, and I want answers.
Will you add your name to my letter to MI6?
@GSJohal85
#FreeJaggiNow
🚨BBC’s top story on new evidence that MI5 and MI6 may have given a tip off leading to the torture of our client, Jagtar Singh Johal, a British blogger.
The United Nations says he’s been targeted because of his Sikh faith and his “status as a human rights defender”.
Jagtar Singh Johal has spent over 3 years in an Indian prison. He was tortured and his forced ‘confession’ is the only evidence used against him. He is now facing the threat of a death penalty alone - far from his home in Dumbarton, Scotland.
The UK government needs to act.
"The Government's powers to strip citizenship are already the broadest in the G20. They are used disproportionately against people from ethnic minority communities. Today the House of Lords said: enough."
Saudi Arabia executed 37 people in one day – including three arrested as teenagers and tortured into 'confessions'. Call on
@theresa_may
to condemn these executions and call for release of three still at risk
#StopSaudiExecutions
Sentencing a child to death is an act of unbearable cruelty.
Abdullah has spent his teenage years fearing he will be executed and each court ruling subjects him to more severe emotional trauma.
He must be released immediately.
🚨BREAKING: motion filed by mother of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, an intellectually disabled man, has been immediately dismissed so they can rush him to gallows at dawn tomorrow.
This lays bare the truth about what access to justice looks like in Singapore death penalty cases🧵
Reprieve director Maya Foa said: "Peers have heard the outcry against this attempted power grab by the Home Secretary. Now MPs must listen, and strike this discriminatory provision from the Bill."
Capital punishment in Singapore disproportionately targets drug mules rather than the drug lords that traffic or manipulate them.
Most of its victims are, like Nagen, poor, vulnerable and from marginalised communities. This is a broken system. 4/5
This not only defies United Nations experts' plea that his death sentence be reversed, it demonstrates once again that Saudi Arabia's claim to have abolished the death penalty for child defendants is nothing more than a disingenuous PR stunt.
If you remember anything about Shamima Begum today let it be this: being a child victim of human trafficking doesn’t mean that the Home Secretary cannot strip you of your citizenship.
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Jagtar Singh Johal has never seen his own wedding video.
Three weeks after his wedding, Indian police abducted and tortured him. Five years later, he's still arbitrarily detained, his trial endlessly delayed.
The UK Government must act
#FreeJaggiNow
1/2
🚨BREAKING: Nagaenthran Dharmalingam's execution scheduled for next Wednesday for carrying less than 3 tablespoons of diamorphine.
As a person with an intellectual disability, he should not have been sentenced to death.
He can still be saved with a presidential pardon.🧵1/3
Why is a UK football club - playing in the Premier League today - owned by one of the world's top executioners?
Watch Peter's video and sign the petition:
#MCINEW
Jagtar Singh Johal is a British national.
He's a victim of torture.
He's been arbitrarily detained in India for over 3 years.
And he faces the threat of a death sentence.
What is the UK government waiting for to act?
🚨BREAKING: the House of Commons has passed the National Security Bill.
It contains provisions which risk allowing Ministers and Whitehall officials to get away with torture tip offs, including against British citizens like blogger and human rights defender Jagtar Singh Johal 🧵
Reprieve statement following news that Saudi Arabia has killed 81 men in a mass execution today.
“The world should know by now that when Mohammed Bin Salman promises reform, bloodshed is bound to follow." 1/4
His last days were spent, like much of the last decade in torturous isolation of solitary confinement. He had to get the court’s permission to hold his family’s hands yesterday.
Our thoughts are with his family, who never stopped fighting for him; their pain is unimaginable. 5/5
Ahead of F1's race in Bahrain,
@LewisHamilton
has been raising human rights abuses in the country.
Today he said "we have to continue to use the platforms we have when we arrive in these countries" but that "I can't do it alone. I need allies".
@F1
&
@fia
should be joining him
🚨URGENT: While all eyes are on the World Cup, Saudi Arabia is carrying out a horrifying execution spree.
The Kingdom has executed 15 people convicted of drugs offences in the last 12 days, breaking a promise to end executions for non-violent crimes 🧵
Brother of British national, Jagtar Singh Johal, wrongly detained and tortured in India has a message for
@BorisJohnson
as he meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “Please bring my brother back home.”
#FreeJaggiNow
Help us
#SaveNagaenthran
– an intellectually disabled man in Singapore who’s just found out he’s to be hanged next Wednesday.
No one with a disability should ever be treated this way. Will you help us save him?
@stephenfry
@richardbranson
@TimShriver
Jagtar Singh Johal is a British human rights activist facing the threat of a death sentence in India. He was tortured until he ‘confessed’. He’s been in a crowded and unsanitary prison ever since - for over three years - waiting for the UK government to help him.
REVEALED: A new report shows the rate of executions in Saudi Arabia has almost doubled under Mohammed bin Salman, from 71 per year to 130 per year.
MBS is gaslighting the world, promising to curb the use of the death penalty, while his regime kills people in record numbers 🧵
EXPOSED: the truth about Guantánamo Bay, which opened its doors 21 years ago today.
Remember: human rights do not exist without justice.
Fight for the freedom of innocent men. Sign the petition today.
Today, Sikh Gurdwaras all over the country are sending a message to Liz Truss:
Tortured, wrongly detained and facing a death sentence. 📢 Liz Truss, call for the release of British human rights activist, Jagtar Singh Johal, now! 📢
#FreeJaggiNow
A THREAD 🧵
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Ali al-Nimr was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia, for the 'crime' of attending protests when he was a child. This Thursday, he'll spend his 23rd birthday on death row. Can you help us send Ali a message of hope by signing his birthday card?
Jagtar Singh Johal was abducted in plain sight by Indian police officers on November 4, 2017 - four years ago, today. He was tortured and remains locked up, far from his home and family in Dumbarton, Scotland.
#FreeJaggiNow
#FreeJaggi
🏆 Women's football 1, Men's Football 0 ❌
Today is the Women’s World Cup final. Whatever the outcome, we’re cheering on the organisers and players who said no to Saudi Arabian sponsorship of this year's tournament, halting Saudi Arabia’s sportswashing in its tracks.
#FIFAWWC
My dad's been kept in solitary confinement for almost six years.
Sarcasm and mockery is not a crime. Yet my dad faces a death sentence in Saudi Arabia for it.
Share my dad's story and sign the petition to help me bring him home.
Jagtar Singh Johal was tortured. He shouldn't be facing the threat of a death sentence in India today. He should be back home in Dumbarton, Scotland. The UK needs to speak up for Jagtar.
#FreeJaggiNow
#FreeJaggi
👉🏾
Abdul Latif Nasser has been held without charge in
#Guantanamo
for 19 years. He was cleared for release in 2016 by six US intelligence agencies but because of administrative delays and a tweet by then President-elect Donald Trump, he hasn't been allowed to return home.
"Undercover informants working for the police and MI5 are going to be explicitly permitted for the first time under British law to commit crimes." It is vital that this proposed law must be amended so that it rules out "murder and serious violence."
👇🏿
Jagtar Singh Johal has been locked up in an Indian prison without any legal basis for over 3 years. He now faces the threat of a death sentence. Thanks to you, we're fighting to make sure the UK government speaks up for him - and gets him back to his home in Dumbarton, Scotland.
Nagen's execution is a flagrant violation of international laws that Singapore chose to sign up to.
From rushed hearings to intimidation of Nagen’s lawyers, this case has laid bare Singaporean authorities’ hollow claims about affording due process. 3/5
🚨BREAKING: Saudi Arabia executed 3 more people this morning during
@BorisJohnson
's visit.
Travelling to Saudi Arabia after a mass execution signaled the UK will tolerate the gravest human rights abuses. Today’s executions are the immediate result. Johnson has blood on his hands
Miles Jupp: Actor. Comedian. Reprieve supporter. Thanks for the birthday message, Miles! Here's to another 20 years of fighting for everyone's human rights.
#StandUp4HumanRights
Ali al Nimr is no longer facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia. He should be back home with his family by the end of this year after spending the last 9 years on death row for so-called crimes linked to attending pro-democracy protests when he was just a child. Thank you. 🧡
BREAKING 🚨: Our client Asadullah Haroon Gul has been cleared for release from Guantánamo, after 14 years in detention without charge or trial.
He missed his daughter's entire childhood. While his clearance is a relief, it’s not justice. 1/4
This is a watershed moment.
With Nagen’s plight igniting unprecedented protests calling for abolition of the death penalty, it’s clear the tide is turning in Singapore. 2/5
There is a British man unjustly locked up in an Indian prison.
He was tortured and forced to sign a ‘confession’.
He has been arbitrarily detained for 1,315 days.
He faces the threat of a death sentence.
And, right now, COVID-19 threatens his safety too.
#FreeJaggiNow
📽EXPOSED: The UAE hired US mercenaries in a secret assassination programme in Southern Yemen which killed scores of people with no association with terrorist groups.
Our investigation with the BBC poses tough questions for US authorities, says Reprieve’s Baraa Shiban 🧵
🚨 BREAKING - No legal basis for Jagtar Singh Johal's detention, say UN experts.
There is "no judicially admissible evidence against Mr. Johal"
“multiple violations of his right to a fair trial”
“The appropriate remedy would be to release Mr. Johal immediately”
#FreeJaggiNow
Jagtar Singh Johal is a British citizen who has been tortured and locked up in an Indian prison for almost four years. Thanks to you, we're fighting to make sure the UK Government speaks up for him and brings him home before it's too late. Thank you. 🧡
#FreeJaggiNow
#FreeJaggi
Saudi Arabia has just upheld a death sentence for child defendant Abdullah al-Howaiti - he was only 14 years old when he was arrested and tortured.
Join us in demanding Liz Truss - who has described Saudi Arabia as an "ally" - speaks out to save Abdullah.
Jagtar Singh Johal is a British national who was abducted by police in India and tortured. He's spent over 3 years in prison and faces the threat of a death sentence.
The UK has yet to act to bring him home.
Ask your MP to speak up for Jagtar here 👉🏽
Andy Tsege, a British father of three, has been on death row in Ethiopia for nearly four years after standing up for human rights. Join
@jeremycorbyn
and sign our petition calling on
@BorisJohnson
to bring Andy home to London
#FreeAndyTsege
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🚨BREAKING: Dawood al-Marhoon has been released. He was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia after allegedly attending an anti-government protest when he was only 17. He was given a blank document and tortured into signing it.
After over nine years, this is him on his way home.
Mohammed Ramadhan is a father of 3. He was tortured until he ‘confessed’ to attending a pro-democracy protest in Bahrain. He was sentenced to death and could be executed any day now. Thanks to you, we are fighting to make sure Mohammed isn’t executed. 🧡
What is the UK government waiting for?
Jagtar Singh Johal is a British national who was abducted and tortured in India. He was forced to 'confess' and now faces the threat of a death sentence. He's been in an Indian prison for over 3 years - waiting for his government to help.
Byson Kaula has passed away in hospital. He spent over two decades on death row, but was freed though Malawi's resentencing project. He then devoted himself to counselling and supporting former prisoners, and became a powerful advocate for abolition. May he now rest in peace. 🧡
🚨BREAKING: Judges have found that Shamima Begum was likely a victim of trafficking, groomed and transported by ISIS when she was a child. But that despite this, the Home Secretary didn't break the law when he stripped her citizenship. A 🧵on this decision and what it means.
Mohammed Essam Al-Faraj was 15 when he was arrested, tortured and forced to sign a 'confession'. He was never allowed access to a lawyer. His trial is coming up and he is at risk of a death sentence.
Over 14k of you have already spoken up for Mohammed. Thank you 🧡
🚨 Today Jagtar Singh Johal wrote to
@trussliz
. He passed this to his lawyer in court.
Five years after he was abducted and tortured, his trial was delayed yet again.
Will the new PM "show more guts" than Boris Johnson and demand Jagtar's immediate release?
#FreeJaggiNow
🚨BREAKING: Our client Asadullah Haroon Gul has just been released from Guantánamo after 15 years imprisoned without charge or trial.
Asad is finally free and able to be rebuild his life with his family, who have waited so long to see him. 🧵
🚨 BREAKING: 100 parliamentarians have written to Rishi Sunak demanding he seeks the release of Jagtar Singh Johal at the
#G20India
Summit this week.
#FreeJaggiNow
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PRESS RELEASE: “We are talking about a young British man facing a death sentence on trumped up political charges. It’s just not good enough for the FCDO to make generic requests for due process."
Our own Dan Dolan 👇🏼
Jagtar Singh Johal travelled to India in 2017. He was abducted by police officers and tortured. He has been locked up without any legal basis for 3+ years despite the assistance and protection promised in his British passport. He faces the threat of a death sentence.
#FreeJaggi
"Prime Minister
@BorisJohnson
is due to visit Saudi Arabia soon, to beg for Saudi oil to replace Russian gas. We cannot show our revulsion for Putin’s atrocities by rewarding those of the Crown Prince. Johnson must speak up and condemn these killings." ENDS
🚨 Nagen, a young man with an intellectual disability is facing imminent execution in Singapore.
Heartbreakingly, he doesn't fully understand he could be killed.
Singaporean Prime Minister
@leehsienloong
, please show mercy and
#SaveNagaenthran
EXPOSED: In one year UK Ministers were asked 20 times to authorise tip offs with a real risk of torture, mistreatment and unlawful killings ❗️
We need to know how many times they said yes.
#FreeJaggiNow
🧵
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1,500 days
214 weeks
49 months
4.1 years
That’s how long British citizen and human rights activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been in prison - waiting for the British Government to save him.
#FreeJaggiNow
#FreeJaggi
Jagtar Singh Johal is British.
Jagtar Singh Johal is British.
Jagtar Singh Johal is British.
Jagtar Singh Johal is British.
Jagtar Singh Johal is British.
Jagtar Singh Johal is British.
Jagtar Singh Johal is entitled to help from the British government.
This is the 5th Christmas that Jagtar Singh Johal's family has spent without him.
He was abducted in 2017 by police in India - and tortured into making a false ‘confession’.
We’re fighting to ensure the UK Government speaks up for Jagtar and gets him home to his family.