name: Clive Stafford Smith
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about: Clive Stafford Smith OBE is a British, formerly US-based lawyer specializing in civil rights and the death penalty in the United States. He is also the founder and Director of Reprieve, a human rights not-for-profit organization. To date, Clive has helped secure the release of 65 prisoners from Guantánamo Bay (including every British prisoner) and still acts for 15 more. More recently, Clive has turned a strategic eye to the other secret detention sites, including Bagram in Afghanistan and the British island of Diego Garcia. In 2000 he was awarded an OBE for ‘humanitarian services’, and has since received numerous honours and awards. His book BAD MEN: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons was published by Phoenix in 2008.