Clive Stafford Smith
Clive Stafford Smith | |
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Stafford Smith in 2010 | |
| Born | Clive Stafford Smith 9 July 1959 Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Columbia University |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Clive Adrian Stafford Smith OBE (born 9 July 1959) is a British attorney who specialises in the areas of civil rights and working against capital punishment in the United States. He worked to overturn death sentences for convicts, and helped found the not-for-profit Louisiana Capital Assistance Center in New Orleans. By 2002 this was the "largest capital defence organisation in the South." He was a founding board member of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center, based in Houston, Texas.
In addition, he has represented more than 80 of the detainees held as enemy combatants since 2002 at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. As of February 2021, a total of 40 men are still held there.
In August 2004, Stafford Smith returned from the U.S. to live and work in the United Kingdom. He is the co-founder of Reprieve, a human rights not-for-profit organisation. He left after 15 years, and has now established a new non-profit called 3DCentre. In 2005 he received the Gandhi International Peace Award.