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“... In an attempt to avoid being held liable for any mistreatment of detainees the Guantánamo Bay medical staff have adopted Shakespearean names. Until recently, some of the doctors there used their real names, which made it easy to report them for misconduct. Now the military wants the medical staff to ignore the Tokyo Declaration of 1975, which forbids the force-feeding of mentally competent hunger strikers, and refuse to inform prisoners of the results of their own medical tests ...”

“... of our bodies.’ Imagine what it would be like to have worked for more than twenty years, as Clive StaffordSmith has, defending death-row inmates in the American South, only to find oneself in Guantánamo, what the military calls ‘the least worst place’, trying to win the trust of men who have not even been ...”

“... weapon was never discovered, but a ballistics expert testified that it had most likely been a 9mm Smith & Wesson. Maharaj’s gun collection had included a 9mm Smith & Wesson though he claimed it had been stolen from him shortly before the murders. The star witness for the prosecution was Neville Butler, a reporter on the ...”

“... this is exactly how drugs are smuggled into prison. Merrilyn Thomas’s book concerns the work of Clive Stafford-Smith and the Southern Prisoners Defence Committee. Born in Newmarket, educated at Radley and another Cambridge reject, Stafford-...”

“... poem on their phone, though they’ve never showed it to anyone.’At lunchtime, the screen showed Clive StaffordSmith talking to a packed tent about his death row campaigns and his memoir. Then I noticed someone who looked a lot like him sitting with friends on a bench in front of me, surrounded by picnicking ...”

“... name?’ ‘I know your name is …’ I don’t remember it today, but let’s say he was called Smith. ‘Don’t say that aloud!’ ‘I know your city, I know your family, I know details!’ Actually, all I knew was his name and his city. ‘Who told you this?’ ‘I won’t say. But one day I’m gonna go home and then you’ll see.’ He started ...”