Clive Stafford Smith

Clive Stafford Smith is legal director of the charity Reprieve and has spent more than 20 years representing prisoners on Death Row in the United States. More recently he has represented many of the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.

Articles by Clive Stafford Smith

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Human Rights

Here but also there

05 March 2009
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Binyam Mohamed is free at last. But will he ever truly be free from the memory of what happened to him in the “Dark Prison”?

Human Rights

The truth will protect us all

12 February 2009
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How has a basically decent person such as David Miliband got himself into such a muddle over torture?

Human Rights

Closing Guantanamo

29 January 2009
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It is the most potent symbol of the abuses of the Bush era: Obama's swift decision to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison has been hailed as a new dawn for justice

Human Rights

Now that's what I call torture

05 June 2008
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Binyam Mohammed, the British resident detained in Guantanamo, has been subjected to so much psychological torture by music that he could almost make his own gruesome compilation album

Human Rights

Torturous arguments

10 April 2008
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The draft Torture Damages Bill is a fundamental test of the British government's commitment to human rights

Human Rights

A fair trial is not a “brand issue”

13 March 2008

Human rights are trampled in unlikely places: a shopping centre in Reading is the latest example

World Affairs

Guantanamo is pants

14 February 2008
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With Guantanamo Bay under the spotlight, Clive Stafford Smith explains why Reprieve's campaign against illegal detention has joined up with a surprising partner...

Human Rights