Clive Stafford Smith
@CliveSSmith
Human rights lawyer (US); email: [email protected] or [email protected]
I just want to point out to all my Pakistani friends that we are ceremonially walloping the Indian cricket team for you at the moment, so the least your government could do is get Aafia out of prison @Aafiamovement
The all-time leading run-scorers in Test cricket 📈 1️⃣ Tendulkar – 15,921 2️⃣ Ponting – 13,378 3️⃣ 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝘁 – 𝟭𝟯,𝟮𝟵𝟬 ⬆️ 4️⃣ Kallis – 13,289 5️⃣ Dravid – 13,288 6️⃣ Cook – 12,472 7️⃣ Sangakkara – 12,400 8️⃣ Lara – 11,953 9️⃣ Chanderpaul – 11,867 🔟 Jayawardene – 11,814 Joe Root,…
Grateful for the PMs meeting with @FowziaSiddiqui yesterday. I hope this govt support includes the Deputy PM raising her case in the US today... @Aafiamovement
This is my new instagram account thanks to my fabulous young @Aafiamovement helpers who actually know about such things! instagram.com/clivestaffords…
They can prosecute me for saying this if they wish, but I fully support PA's right to protest (as once did Keir Starmer before he forgot he was a human rights lawyer)
Supporting Palestine Action’s right to protest is not the same as supporting Palestine Action. It’s time for Keir Starmer to remember why human rights exist. Read @CliveSSmith’s op-ed here: goodlaw.social/g54h
Palestine Action madness by the police: Man arrested for holding up a Private Eye cartoon theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Excellent piece by the Justice League's summer apprentice Christine about the impact of our work on her own empowerment to do human rights work, thejusticeleague.substack.com/p/human-rights…
I'd certainly never ask the PK govt for $$ but if anyone can help with the costs of Aafia's case it would be much appreciated (it costs a fair amount to line up these ISI officers willing to tell the truth but there are plenty out there!). paypal.com/donate?campaig… @Aafiamovement
PK military should help us get Aafia back; they do not have to take responsibility for what Musharraf did 22 years ago, but if they don't help us they will make themselves look culpable for what I will prove very publicly in NY in a few weeks... @Aafiamovement
Govt would rather do nothing than help Aafia. In IHC today the judge ruled: “Therefore as the government has not reverted with the reasons despite being directed twice to do so it is clearly in contempt of court.” @Aafiamovement @FowziaSiddiqui @Moazzam_Begg
At today's hearing the judge of the IHC expressed dismay that the Pakistan government was going to such lengths to "avoid doing anything for the 'Daughter of the Nation'" Aafia Siddiqui. @Aafiamovement @FowziaSiddiqui @Moazzam_Begg
Oh dear! Is this South Kent or North Korea? Police say opposing "genocide" in Gaza is a criminal offence (of supporting the goals of proscribed Palestine Action) theguardian.com/world/2025/jul… Do they think I am committing an offence when I say they (& Keir) have lost the plot...?
By killing Michael Bell last night (after 32 yrs on death row) Florida is proudly on path to break its record for the number of executions in a year, set in 1984 eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
My husband and I were driving from Dewsbury to Wakefield today and saw an old asian man struggling to walk up a steep hill. He was being helped by a young white English lady at the side of the road. We stopped to assist and were told the asian man had collapsed because of the…
Just did an interview about how horribly wrong it is to label Palestine Action terrorists; I am not a PA member, but maybe the cops will come a-knocking if former Human Rights lawyer Sir Keir says I am supporting the PA by saying we all have the right to protest his foolish law.
Sure. Names of ISI (& CIA) agents will be coming out in the US litigation in NY - unless the PK govt helps us get Aafia out before that happens, as I have been saying all along. I'd rather do this the easy way for everyone, but if forced it's the hard way @Aafiamovement
that's highly unlikely. because the army has absolute control over all institutions, including the judiciary. if the pakistani government is not cooperating, it's because they've been told not to by the army. will you ever tell us the names of the ISI officers who sold or handed…
We just had another 530am hearing in Islamabad for Aafia where the PK govt continues to refuse to be honest & admit that they are doing nothing for her. It looks like some people will face jail for contempt next week if they don't start doing their jobs... @Aafiamovement
My children are not allowed to speak on the phone to their father @ImranKhanPTI. He has been in solitary confinement in prison for nearly 2 years. Pakistan’s government has now said if they go there to try to see him, they too will be arrested and put behind bars. This doesn’t…
My father, former Prime Minister Imran Khan, has now spent over 700 days in prison - held in solitary confinement. He is denied access to his lawyers, not allowed visits from his family, fully cut off from us (his children), and even his personal doctor is refused entry. This is…
I always found the British notion of burning Guy Fawkes in 'celebation' peculiarly barbaric, but these racists who want to burn asylum seekers in effigy need serious help theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…
During our trial, jury member asked judge about consequences of conviction (alongside possible incarceration: lifelong travel bans, financial blacklisting, surveillance & monitoring, inability to get employment). Imagine 14-yr sentence we cld have got w/out minimal jury safeguard