Clive Stafford Smith, a human rights lawyer, is the founder and legal director of the charity Reprieve (
www.reprieve.org.uk). He has worked on death penalty cases in the United States, and more recently has represented many of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners. He is the author of
Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007), and writes a monthly column for
New Statesman. His documentary is
Is Torture a Good Idea?.