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
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
Human Rights
The flaws in tabloid laws
- 21 August 2006
A populist policy will cut paedophiles off from proper supervision and make future crimes virtually inevitable
Human Rights
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
Human Rights
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
World Affairs
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
Politics
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
Books
Rough justice
- 09 May 2005
The Trial: a history from Socrates to O J Simpson Sadakat Kadri HarperCollins, 474pp, £25 ISBN 0007111215
Culture
Political acts
- 14 February 2005
- 1 comment
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
