Clive Stafford Smith

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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Here but also there

  • 05 March 2009
  • 4 comments

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”?

The truth will protect us all

  • 12 February 2009
  • 3 comments

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

Closing Guantanamo

  • 29 January 2009
  • 26 comments

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

Now that's what I call torture

  • 05 June 2008
  • 10 comments

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

Torturous arguments

  • 10 April 2008
  • 1 comment

The draft Torture Damages Bill is a fundamental test of the British government's commitment to 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

Guantanamo is pants

  • 14 February 2008
  • 9 comments

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

Too poor to buy justice

  • 07 February 2008
  • 1 comment

"It's sad," said the imam. "In Yemen, we can't afford human rights for ourselves. We must rely on you, from Europe and America, to give them to us"

A tiny light to a happier future

  • 13 December 2007

Despatches from Guantanamo

The case of the contraband underpants

  • 25 October 2007

Who was smuggling illegal underwear to my client in Guantanamo? I would have to investigate

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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