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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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

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

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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