Hope Stevens

Hope Stevens (1905 in Tortola – 1982 in Queens, New York) was a lawyer and political activist. Born in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and raised on Nevis, he was one of the founders of the Barbados Labour Party. He was later based in Harlem, New York, and became head of the Harlem Chamber of Commerce.

As the self-described "Co-chairperson of the National Conference of Black Lawyers of the United States and Canada," he appeared as the defense counsel during the trial in absentia of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary at the People's Revolutionary Tribunal (Cambodia) held by the Vietnamese-backed People's Republic of Kampuchea in Phnom Penh in 1979.^[1] Stevens belonged to the New York branch of the Association of Democratic Lawyers.^[2]

References

1. Shawcross, William (1984). The Quality of Mercy - Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience. Simon and Schuster, New York. ISBN 0-671-44022-5.
2. Dr. Gregory H. Stanton (1992). Kiernan, Ben, ed. The Cambodian Genocide and International Law.