Clive Stafford Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetClive Stafford Smith
British attorney
Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1959
Place of Birth: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Profession: lawyer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Clive Stafford Smith
- Clive Adrian Stafford Smith OBE (born 9 July 1959) is a British attorney who specialises in the areas of civil rights and working against the death penalty in the United States of America.
- 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 100 of the detainees held as enemy combatants since 2002 at the US Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
- As of February 2018, a total of 40 men are still held there.In August 2004, Stafford Smith returned from the US to live and work in the United Kingdom.
- He is the Legal Director of the UK branch of Reprieve, a human rights not-for-profit organisation.
- In 2005 he received the Gandhi International Peace Award.
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