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
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?
Books
The leader's leaders
- 07 June 2007
Courage: Eight Portraits
Gordon Brown Bloomsbury, 288pp, £16.99
ISBN 0747565325
Human Rights
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
Human Rights
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?
Human Rights
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
Human Rights
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?
Human Rights
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
Human Rights
Torture by music
- 06 November 2006
- 2 comments
What do the tunes of Eminem, Aerosmith, Tupac Shakur and Meat Loaf have in common?
Answer: they have all been used to torture people
Human Rights
How Guantanamo's prisoners were sold
- 09 October 2006
The president of Pakistan's attempts to publicise his memoirs throw light on the flawed and dishonest processes that the US uses in bringing "terrorists" to justice
Human Rights
Death sentence for independence
- 11 September 2006
Pakistan is about to execute a Briton on flimsy charges. Its president is under pressure to confirm the sentence, purely for political reasons
