Author: Makmid Kamara & Sabrina Mahtani
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Makmid Kamara is a Sierra Leonean human rights activist and researcher. He is the Director of the Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund and formerly worked for Amnesty International and Oxfam. Sabrina Mahtani is a Zambian-British lawyer. She co-founded AdvocAid, an NGO that provides access to justice for women in detention in Sierra Leone. The organisation has freed six women on death row. Sabrina formerly worked for Amnesty International and The Elders and currently curates Women Beyond Walls.
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How decades of tenacious advocacy, political will and a smart legal strategy finally ended capital punishment. On 23 July 2021, Sierra Leone made history as it ...