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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Torture by music

  • 06 November 2006
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What do the tunes of Eminem, Aerosmith, Tupac Shakur and Meat Loaf have in common? Answer: they have all been used to torture people

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

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

The flaws in tabloid laws

  • 21 August 2006

A populist policy will cut paedophiles off from proper supervision and make future crimes virtually inevitable

Calling time on Guantanamo

  • 10 July 2006

Should it be called a commission or a con-mission? It was designed to con the world into thinking the military respected due process

The silent world of Sami

  • 12 June 2006

He is no terrorist. They did not ask him about the charges. They wanted only to turn him into an informer

When even actors aren't safe

  • 27 February 2006

Rizwan Ahmed was part of a prizewinning team at the Berlin Film Festival. When he got back to Luton Airport, however, he was a terror suspect

Inside Guantanamo

  • 21 November 2005

Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith regularly visits clients in the prison camp he calls America's "law-free zone". This is his chilling report on life behind the wire

Rough justice

  • 09 May 2005

The Trial: a history from Socrates to O J Simpson Sadakat Kadri HarperCollins, 474pp, £25 ISBN 0007111215

Political acts

  • 14 February 2005
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Theatre has a tiny audience compared with the media. But, says human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, it still plays a vital role in debating society's big issues

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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