Human rights lawyer (US); email: clivestaffordsmith2020@gmail.com or clive@justiceleague.org.uk
Dorset, England
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What kind of Banana Republic has Pakistan descended to? It is truly shameful that they sent these goons to throw acid at my long-time human rights colleague @ShazadAkbar & try to burn down his house! bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4w6…
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Ahlam Al Lami, the first woman to head the prestigious Iraq Bar Association, was SO kind and even gave me that bouquet of roses!
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Black Wednesday: today Sept 23, the 16th anniversary of #aafia receiving 86 yrs in prison when she was the victim not the criminal (and that on top of the 7.5 yrs of torture she had already suffered). @Aafiamovement @FowziaSiddiqui
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Presumably AI air traffic software will ultimately decide more planes should be allowed to crash after deciding selfish humans are flying too much, creating climate change bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw0k…
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The Balaclava Black Shirts might just do better to kick themselves out of the country, rather than everyone of colour, if they want to make Britain great again...
*BRILLIANT*
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘_white, angry old man’s_’ advice to go back where they came from.*
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With all due respect to the excellent @burke_jason, Bin Laden achieved more than he could possibly have dreamed with the nightmare of 9/11: Western torture as response to extremism, the longest pointless war in US history (AF), US exposed as weak (Iran), Middle East imploding...
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Clive Stafford Smith retweeted
Imagine you are 21 years old. You have played eight first-class matches in your life. You did not even have a passport a week ago.
Then you land in England.
Your first over averages 89.7mph. Every single delivery of that over is quicker than every other ball any Pakistan bowler has sent down on this entire tour. You trap the greatest Test batter England has produced before you have conceded a single run in Test cricket. You finish with four wickets.
Then you come back with the bat, score 81 from the bottom of the order in a day, and end up as the second-highest run scorer of the side. You break the record for the most sixes by a debutant in Test history. And you play an innings that wakes up an entire ground, and an entire country, in the space of a couple of hours.
That is where you tell the world that Pakistan has never had a shortage of talent. Only a shortage of people willing to look for it.
What a story. What an absolute beauty of a Test cricket session.
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Razaullah's interview Post Knock nitter.net/pctstorage_/status/209…
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The @nytimes has it right, sadly, on how the US got its response to the horror of 9/11 horribly wrong nytimes.com/2026/09/11/opini… via @NYTOpinion I have to say it seemed pretty obvious from the start from where I was sitting yet many similar mistakes are taking place right now…
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Can there be anything sadder & more revolting than assaulting RNLI volunteers who rescue people drowning in the channel? I’ll certainly be donating to them rnli.org/support-us/give-mon…
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The BIG question: My sources tell me the Balaclava Black Shirts plan to put their Soton-Ports-/Bourne-mouth soccer sentiments aside & march this Saturday: will the authorities act or keep their focus steadfast on the Palestine Action Septuagenarians?
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Talked about irony on radio today on the Balaclava Black Shirts who think ridding us of the ECHR is the (final?) solution to the "small boats". No ECHR human rights & they'd have no right to protest. I disagree with them but strongly support their right to say stupid things...
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So who’s the terrorist here? ‘I oppose genocide’ octogenarians peacefully sitting in Parliament Sq OR scores of hate-inspired Balaclava Black Shirts blocking off Dover theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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If these Balaclava Black Shirts trying to ‘Stop the Small Boats’ don’t bring the 1930s to mind it’s hard to think what would…
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Global Seer Matt Smith has had two premonitions about the end of the Trump era (he appears sober but it’s still bs)
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Right wing fool Milo Yiannopoulos says he’d been a ‘bit cavalier’ about deporting others with foreign names after the trauma of being deported by his former buddy @realDonaldTrump theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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I know Willie Manning & his case well (I did his appeal) - he really didn't do the crimes for which DA Forrest Allgood put him on death row mississippitoday.org/2026/08…
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Read this and weep: Jimmy Duncan innocent but not free propublica.org/article/louis…
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Goodness! Surely PK should sack the Field Marshall rather than Mohd Rizwan who kept wkt rather well? bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/arti… @AzeemRafiq30 @ShazadAkbar
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Annie Jacobsen's silly book that says #AafiaSiddiqui was making airborne 100% fatal rabies is 1 mistake after another. TikTok wouldn't let me correct her so here it is... @Aafiamovement
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