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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.

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International Politics
The long, slow death of innocence
04 July 2012

Kris Maharaj has been in jail in Miami since 1986 for a double murder, yet all the evidence shows there is no way that he was the killer. What went wrong with American justice?

9/11 memories: Clive Stafford Smith
07 September 2011

We asked a human rights lawyer and the director of Reprieve: where were you on 9/11?

North America
Here but also there
05 March 2009

Binyam Mohamed is free at last. But will he ever truly be free from the memory of what happened to h

UK Politics
The truth will protect us all
12 February 2009

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

UK Politics
Closing Guantanamo
29 January 2009

It is the most potent symbol of the abuses of the Bush era: Obama's swift decision to shut down Guan

International Politics
Now that's what I call torture
05 June 2008

Binyam Mohammed, the British resident detained in Guantanamo, has been subjected to so much psycholo

UK Politics
Torturous arguments
10 April 2008

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

UK Politics
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

International Politics
Guantanamo is pants
14 February 2008

With Guantanamo Bay under the spotlight, Clive Stafford Smith explains why Reprieve's campaign again

International Politics
Too poor to buy justice
07 February 2008

"It's sad," said the imam. "In Yemen, we can't afford human rights for ourselves. We must rely on yo

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