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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Clive Stafford Smith
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2 months ago | 
aljazeera.com | Clive Stafford Smith
These days there is a sense that Washington, DC, along with most of the Western world, has transported back to the 1930s, when fascism was openly on the march. And the latest executive order from President Donald Trump vowing to send 30,000 "illegal immigrants" to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is certainly adding to this vibe.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Clive Stafford Smith
‘Most oppressed Muslim women in the world’ now denied religious solaceWhy does the US Bureau of Prisons refuse to allow Dr Aafia Siddiqui visits from an imam? We have recently – imam and lawyer – joined forces, along with so many unsung heroes, to demand respect for the humanity of Dr Aafia Siddiqui. She is often called the “Most Oppressed Muslim Woman in the World” – …
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Clive Stafford Smith |Omar Suleiman
We have recently - imam and lawyer - joined forces, along with so many unsung heroes, to demand respect for the humanity of Dr Aafia Siddiqui. She is often called the "Most Oppressed Muslim Woman in the World" - and with good cause. There is no other woman who went through the full US Rendition to Torture program. There is no other example of a case where a woman was abducted by the CIA and their Pakistani co-conspirators along with her three small children.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Clive Stafford Smith
Aa Aa Aa - A + We have recently – imam and lawyer – joined forces, along with so many unsung heroes, to demand respect for the humanity of Dr Aafia Siddiqui. She is often called the “Most Oppressed Muslim Woman in the World” – and with good cause. There is no other woman who went through the full US Rendition to Torture program. There is no other example of a case where a woman was abducted by the CIA and their Pakistani co-conspirators along with her three small children.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
thenews.com.pk | Clive Stafford Smith
There is an old saying that goes as follows: “The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history”. I write this while I am visiting Pakistan, where I have been a bystander to the kerfuffle over the proposed constitutional amendment to create a new Federal Constitutional Court. This touches precisely on a lecture I give to my students each year on the structure of government, and the periodic attempts to nobble one branch or another (here, the judiciary).
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
msn.com | Clive Stafford Smith
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Clive Stafford Smith
My friend Krishna Maharaj, who has died aged 85 in a prison hospital in Florida, was a British victim of an American miscarriage of justice. Kris enjoyed life as a wealthy London-based businessman until 1986, when he was framed for the murder of a Jamaican man, Derrick Moo Young, who had been managing property investments for him in Florida.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Clive Stafford Smith
IT is alleged, notoriously, that Dr Shakil Afridi helped the US assassinate Osama bin Laden by running a dummy Hepatitis B vaccination campaign, during which he secured blood samples from Bin Laden’s children proving where the Al Qaeda leader was hiding. As a result, the US wants Pakistan to release Dr Afridi to liberty in America where he attained heroic status.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
declassifieduk.org | Clive Stafford Smith
A former minister in Imran Khan’s government tasked with rooting out corruption was subjected to an horrific attack in his Hertfordshire home. Shahzad Akbar and Imran Khan. (Photo: Supplied)On Sunday 26 November, at 4:35pm, in the sleepy town of Royston in Hertfordshire, my old friend and human rights colleague Shahzad Akbar heard a knock on his door. He responded, thinking this was a normal Amazon delivery time, whereupon some coward threw sulphuric acid at his face.
