Clive Stafford Smith

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?

Human Rights

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”?

Human Rights

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?

Human Rights

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

Human Rights

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

Human Rights

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

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
• 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...

Human Rights

Too poor to buy justice

• 07 February 2008
• 2 comments

"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"

Society

A tiny light to a happier future

• 13 December 2007

Despatches from Guantanamo