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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A tribute to Anita Roddick

  • 12 September 2007
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Clive Stafford Smith pays tribute to the Bodyshop founder and campaigner who died this week aged 64

An unjust trial by media

  • 23 August 2007

Some Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been cleared for release. But US defence officials still insist - and the unquestioning media reports - that they are dangerous terrorists. Why would any country want to take them?

From Guantanamo to worse

  • 12 July 2007
  • 2 comments

Much as the prisoners want to leave the gulag, repatriation could take them to a far worse situation

The right to vote

  • 07 June 2007
  • 3 comments

How can the Mother of all Parliaments have a legislative chamber that is not fully elected?

The leader's leaders

  • 07 June 2007

Courage: Eight Portraits Gordon Brown Bloomsbury, 288pp, £16.99 ISBN 0747565325

The circle of rendition

  • 23 April 2007
  • 3 comments

The great-grandfather of a Muslim man held in Guantanamo was likewise held without trial and tortured by a colonial superpower

A backward system of justice

  • 12 March 2007
  • 7 comments

The US is supposed to have barred execution for the mentally retarded. So why is Howard Neal still on death row after 25 years?

The deepest pain of all

  • 05 February 2007

Mourning the death of my own father, I felt an aching parallel between the predicament of client and lawyer. Ultimately, though, the prisoners' pain was greater

Wanted: a new world champion

  • 18 December 2006

How can the US condemn torture in Argentina, political murders in Russia and censorship in North Korea when it promotes "kangaroo courts" at Guantanamo Bay?

Justice eludes Satan's friend

  • 04 December 2006
  • 1 comment

A US court restores the death penalty against a man in defiance of overwhelming, recently discovered evidence and for no apparent reason

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

Film review

A Serious Man

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