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British Lawyers to Defend Death Row Prisoners in West Indies, The Guardian, 13 June 2011

  • DPP in the Media
  • 13 Jun 2011

Published in 2011, The Guardian quotes our co-executive director Saul Lehrfreund:

“Death sentences on 900 people in Uganda were commuted; another 4,000 were taken off death row in Kenya last year and about 40 in Malawi – all as a result of those countries adopting privy council precedents,” explained Saul Lehrfreund of the London-based Death Penalty Project, which represents most of the applicants who come before the privy council.

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