Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay - Rilegato

Smith, Clive Stafford

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ISBN 10: 1568583745 ISBN 13: 9781568583747

Casa editrice: Nation Books, 2007

Riassunto

A human rights lawyer who has had independent access to the prisoners at Guantanamo documents the realities of their experiences while citing the near-absurdities that mark their incarceration, from an absence of security at the local airport to the army's order to protect iguanas on the roads.

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After graduating from Columbia Law School in New York, Clive spent nine years as a lawyer with the Southern Center for Human Rights working on death penalty cases and other civil rights issues. In 1993, he moved to New Orleans and launched the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, a non-profit law office specializing in the defense of death penalty cases for impoverished defendants. In 1999 Clive Stafford Smith founded Reprieve and, the following year, he was awarded an OBE for humanitarian services’. He moved back to the UK in 2004 where he is focusing on achieving due process for the detainees being held by the U.S. in Guantanamo Bay, as well as continuing his work on death penalty cases. Clive was made a Rowntree Visionary and Echoing Green Fellow in 2005. A duel citizen, he lives in London.

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Book by Smith Clive Stafford

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• Editore: Nation Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1568583745
• ISBN 13: 9781568583747
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 307