Oral history interview with Gareth Peirce, 2011.

Biographical Note

Defense Attorney, Birnberg Peirce & Partners.

Scope and Contents

Education: University of Oxford, London School of Economics; career: journalism, senior partner, Birnberg Peirce and Partners; career focus: criminal defense, terrorism-related crimes, human rights, civil rights; discussions: legal prohibitions against torture, complicity of British government in renditions and torture at Guantanamo and Bagram, solitary confinement, Tipton Three, Northern Ireland conflict, Bloody Sunday investigation; reminiscences: importance of history in counter-acting torture and terrorism.

Subjects

• Birnberg Peirce & Partners.
• Bloody Sunday, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1972.
• Civil rights.
• Detention of persons--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
• Extraordinary rendition--Government policy--Great Britain.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Guantánamo Bay oral history project.
• Human rights.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Great Britain--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Peirce, Gareth--Interviews.
• Political violence--Northern Ireland.
• Prisoners of war--Abuse of.
• Torture (International law)

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