Clive Stafford Smith

The challenge is to understand how and why the West elected to position al-Qaeda as the counterweight to the US.

The 2001 US invasion was bound to devastate the country and the Afghan people.

At the end of his tenure, Trump presided over the deaths of 13 prisoners. What will happen to the 2,500 on death row?

The US government’s argument it has the right to assassinate anyone, anywhere heralds its descent into despotism.

He opposes the death penalty in the US, but issued kill orders for Muslims overseas with no trial at all.

Men, women and children branded ISIL members face death sentences as the West outsources its brand of injustice.

It may be doomed to be extinct but it is still deadly – with eight executions planned over 10 days in Arkansas.

It is 2046 and Clive Stafford Smith has returned to Guantanamo, where his clients were once imprisoned and tortured.

Courageous endeavours of journalists in Aleppo deliver the news we hear today.

Clive Stafford Smith examines our inventive capacity for inflicting pain and terror on our fellow human.