Clive Stafford Smith
@CliveSSmith
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Human rights lawyer (US); email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Dorset, England
Joined December 2010
One of many reasons why the UK needs a constitution: someone who’s never tried a criminal case thinks it right to speed things up by abolishing the right to a jury trial (that we’ve had for centuries) for most cases
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HELP! The Bank of Dreams & Nightmares is a WONDERFUL charity in the same building as me here in Bridport that helps disadvantaged kids with writing and imagination. They are seriously strapped for cash on their meagre budget, so if you can help please do
crowdfunder.co.uk
We’re on a mission to raise £30,000 to keep our creative writing workshops free for children.
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Wake up UK don’t be surprised at Farage’s Dulwich College racism: @Okwonga is entirely correct that Public Schools like that or my own Ra-Ra-Radley have been hotbeds of elitist supremacy & have much more changing to do today let alone the 1970s
theguardian.com
Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga
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Excellent by @NesrineMalik on the recent-convert 2d-generation immigration racist populism of Shabana Mahmood
theguardian.com
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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I had a couple of hours to get up on the roof to learn a bit of thatching from the inestimable Shaun Parkman; he does get a glorious view of the world (Mr/Ms Thatcher is a better take on the name than Mrs...)
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From game day to everyday, Moody pulls up focused. We handle the rest. 🏀
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Indeed PM Shehbaz Sharif does know how to deal with the Narcissist-in-Chief: so let’s see a little of this technique applied to help get #Aafia free @Aafiamovement
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The important thing about Gen Musharraf's admission about paying bounties is that when the Americans learned they were pissed off & he had to take it out of the translation... But the PK authorities trousered $55K for poor Aafia.
@CliveSSmith @Aafiamovement In his biography , former PK Dictator Musharraf recounts Pakistan’s cooperation with the United States after 9/11. He describes how: -Pakistan captured and transferred hundreds of terrorism suspects to the U.S. -The U.S. offered “bounties” or financial rewards for certain
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My view is that Asim Munir just gets bad advice like many people surrounded by sycophants (cf Washington). If the PK Intelligence was Intelligent they would help me get Aafia free so we could end all this... @Aafiamovement
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I am not sure I look as stupid here as I normally do - why the Pakistan Establishment should help us resolve this with no more fuss, else I am forced to expose all their dirty laundry. I just talked to the prosecutors & I think this is possible IF THEY HELP! @Aafiamovement
Aafia Siddiqui’s lawyer @CliveSSmith explains the latest updates in her case. @SenatorMushtaq @FowziaSiddiqui
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Well worth a read: Nation article on the madness of executing Robert Roberson on the basis of shaken baby syndrome junk science which I attempted to debunk in...1995, after Sabrina Butler was acquitted at her retrial.
thenation.com
Robert Roberson, who was nearly killed due to the discredited “shaken baby syndrome” theory, is still at risk.
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The large bench of the IHC today expressed concern that the Government has backed off supporting #Aafia before the NY Court & gave them a week to change their mind or come up with an explanation; it really is time MOFA did its job @Aafiamovement
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Hearing in Islamabad for Aafia tomorrow at noon local time; let us hope the court is inclined to do its job (& remind the PK government to do theirs). @Aafiamovement
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Now we have 3 PK & 2 US secret agents telling the truth about #Aafia it's a matter of time before more people with a conscience come forward; time for the PK Establishment to wake up and smell the roses: it's better for all if we just get Aafia free @Aafiamovement @mariakari1414
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With @mariakari1414 I'll be meeting with the US Attorneys on Dec 11 in NY to see where we are going for Aafia. They're reasonable people, this injustice is not their fault. Time for the Pakistan Govt & Establishment to help-not-hinder @Aafiamovement @FowziaSiddiqui
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Papers call Shabana Mahmood's obnoxious decision to despise asylum seekers a "Hail Mary"; it's not, it's a "Hail Satan, I think we'll have a bit of Nigel's Hate-Populism". Remember it used to be: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
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One of the podcasts we've done on #Aafia seems to have had the wrong email if you want to write letters to her about how she is an inspiration. It’s letters4aafia@gmail.com @Aafiamovement
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Really! Shabana Mahmood is, sad to say, very foolish to say "dark forces" are using the immigration hate card, & then try to play "Not Quite as Nasty As Nigel" by coming up with her own hateful policies
theguardian.com
There is understood to be growing unease in party over home secretary’s sweeping overhaul of refugee rights
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In their on-going effort to make South Carolina more civilised, they executed Stephen Bryant by firing squad last night https://t.co/lyLz9T7bQo Last time they did it, the autopsy showed one missed altogether & all 3 missed the heart, leaving the victim to die slowly...
theguardian.com
Stephen Bryant, 44, convicted over 2004 murder, was shot dead despite growing backlash against ‘barbaric’ method
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I don't pretend to read Urdu, @Aafiamovement, but I think this says that the Pakistan government should pull its national finger out and help us get Aafia out!
e.jang.com.pk
وطن عزیز پاکستان اس وقت اندرونی و بیرونی مشکلات کا شکار ہے ۔ اس وقت مشرقی و مغربی سرحد پر ہماری مسلح افواج مستعد اور چاق و چوبند کھڑی ہیں ۔ الحمدللہ پوری پاکستانی قوم پاک فوج کے شانہ بشانہ ہر چیلنج...
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Fabulous! Our old friend, client and colleague Calvin Duncan: After 28 years in prison, where he helped countless others get justice, then a law degree, he becomes clerk of the New Orleans court where he was wrongly convicted in a run off landslide.
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