Voices for Death Row Inmates Banner of Hope

Voices for Death Row inmates got together with London artist Carrie Riechadrt and came up with the idea of a Hankies for Hope banner ... this banner is made from cotton hankies .. hankies being something we wipe tears of sadness away with. During the time the death penalty was in practice in the United Kingdom, the judge when passing a death sentence would place a black hankie on his head as he did so .
Each hankie represents a soul , a soul awaiting their fate or already executed . The name, prison ID number and State is written on the hankie. There are also birds flying free. Bird cages ,hearts , angels , candl
es , leaves and flowers painted onto the banner, again all symbolic.
They have been stitched together with orange ribbons between each one , orange being the colour of oppression and the colour of the jumpsuit a death row inmate wears when being moved from one place to another ... so this banner is very symbolic in everyway
This banner has grown over the last few months …but we want people to add the names of their loved ones and pen pals to the Banner of Hope.

If you would like to add a name of an inmate who has been executed or is on death row please contact us via our facebook page or via our website
Below see our Banner of Hope SO FAR!! More names will be added soon


The Banner of Hope So far

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Saturday, 8 September 2012

Stop the execution spree in Gambia



 'By the middle of next month all the death sentences would have been carried out to the letter.' – President Jammeh, speaking on 19 August 2012
'These past few days have been something like a nightmare. We don't know what’s happening – who is dead and who is alive. And we don’t know who will be next.' - wife of a death row prisoner in Gambia
On Thursday 23 August eight men and one woman on death row in Gambia were dragged from their cells without warning and shot by firing squad. They died without being able to say good bye to their families, and they were not warned that they were going to be killed. Stop the executions
They were the first people to be executed in the country for 27 years. Their deaths confirm that President Yahya Jammeh was not bluffing when he threatened to kill all death row inmates by the middle of September. Now, at least 38 others are at serious risk of meeting the same end.

In Gambia this cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment is being used on those convicted of political charges. Many inmates claim to have had confessions tortured out of them and we are concerned that those being executed didn’t receive fair trials in the first place. Read more background information
We have no time to waste – send the email below to the Gambian authorities now and tell them to stop Jammeh’s sickening plan immediately.


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