Bad Men
Author(s): Clive Stafford Smith
Clive Stafford Smith is the 46-year-old human-rights lawyer who has famously - some would say notoriously - spent more than twenty years in the United States representing prisoners on Death Row. His clients include many detainees in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and he established the London-based charity Reprieve, developed to defending human rights in 1999. His book is quite simply, devastating, and many will laugh and cry reading it: laugh in disbelief, and cry in despair at the utter inhumanity and lack of imagination wrapped up in hypocrisy so enormous that it beggars understanding.
Yet even in the face of insurmountable odds, Clive Stafford Smith remains an optimist.
Few could maintain his capacity for work and his commitment to his clients if he allowed frustration or despair to divert him. His experiences, graphically recounted in this book, have enabled him to shine a bright, unblinking light into the darkest corners of illegality that are being justified by governments in the name of the War on Terror.
General Information
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.235
- : 07 February 2008
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Clive Stafford Smith
- : Paperback
- : 336
- : Biography & autobiography: general; Human rights; Political oppression & persecution
- : 2 Map(s)
More About The Product
Clive Stafford Smith is a high-profile defence lawyer who is promotable, articulate and has something important to say about human rights. Includes new material for the paperback edition. 'Lifts the lid on the hypocrisy and routine abuse of human rights... at the heart of the War on Terror' London Review of Books. 'Clive Stafford Smith...breaks his silence to deliver an indictment of the detention centre, which is all the more devastating for being expressed in such temperate terms...this book serves as a warning of how a nation with liberty at the heart of its written constitution is helpless to prevent a determined administration from overriding them' Daily Mail. 'A laconic and sardonic first-person account, acutely observed and at times blackly humorous, of what Guantanamo Bay is actually like' Geoffrey Robertson QC, New Statesman.
Shortlisted for Orwell Prize 2008.
"this shattering account of the Cuban limbo is timelier than ever" INDEPENDENT
Clive Stafford Smith is a human rights lawyer based in London, whose clients include detainees in Guantanamo Bay and prisoners on Death Row
