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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.

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…

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…

Joshua French

  • D.O.B: 07 April 1982
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Closed Case
  • Death penalty

Joshua spent eight years under sentence of death in the DRC before he was released on humanitarian grounds …

Aron John

  • Malawi
  • Closed Case
  • Death penalty; mandatory death penalty

Aron John spent 16 years in prison in Malawi; ten of which on death row. He was one of the first prisoners to be re…

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