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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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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
  • 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

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