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A Guantanamo Bay detainee cleared for release in 2009 was sent home to Mauritania, the Defense Department announced.

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A British resident locked up at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was heartened by a letter from Foreign Secretary William Hague, a prisoner rights activist said.

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U.S. authorities are cracking down on a hunger strike by detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a British detainee said.

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A British lawmaker says the government will publicly ask the United States to free the last former British resident at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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The British home secretary has asked for a probe into the role of U.S. and British intelligence agencies in the detention of a British resident at Guantanamo.

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The least the British government can do is insist that no British resident be charged in a kangaroo court on evidence tortured out of him with a razor blade
Ethiopian to be charged with war crimes Jun 04, 2008

Clive Adrian Stafford Smith OBE (born July 9, 1959) is a formerly USA-based British lawyer who specializes in the areas of civil rights and the death penalty in the United States of America.

In August 2004 he returned to live in the United Kingdom. He is now the Legal Director of the UK branch of the human rights not-for-profit Reprieve. In 2005 he received the Gandhi International Peace Award.

Born in Cambridge and educated at Radley College, he declined a place at the University of Cambridge to relocate to the United States when he won a Morehead Scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied journalism before enrolling in Columbia University's Law School. He is admitted to practice in the state of Louisiana and in Washington, D.C.

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