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Monday, 02 January 2017 21:25

Trials to Watch in 2017

Law 360 | January 2, 2017

Trial watchers will have plenty to choose from heading into 2017, including a reprise of the Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP drama, a criminal fraud trial against former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin...

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Mediapart | May 1, 2018

Un citoyen libyen en exil a porté plainte à Paris pour torture et terrorisme contre le maréchal Khalifa Haftar, l'une des figures de la Libye post-Kadhafi reçue par Macron en juillet 2017, et récemment soignée secrètement en France.

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Sunday, 14 December 2014 21:14

Jason Wright: The Case Against Torture

New York Times Short Film Op-Doc | December 14, 2014

A few months before the recent release of the Senate’s report on the C.I.A.'s use of torture, I interviewed the man charged with defending one of the most notorious prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Maj. Jason Wright was part of the military counsel for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, accused of being the mastermind behind the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

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CNN International, Christiane Amanpour’s | May 8, 2013

The vast majority of the 166 detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay say they would rather starve than spend another day in limbo. One of the more than 100 men now on hunger strike is an Afghan man in his early thirties, known only as Obaidullah – a prisoner with no charges filed against him.

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Sunday, 31 August 2014 21:09

Guantánamo Defense Attorney Resigns

NPR’s All Things Considered | August 31, 2014

SKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, is facing a military commission at Guantanamo Bay and potentially the death penalty. He was captured in 2003 but his case still hasn't gone to trial.

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Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:07

Guantánamo and Torture

TV5 Monde, 64 Minutes, (France) | December 11, 2014

Entretien avec Jason Wright, ancien avocat à Guantanamo. Lors de sa première élection, Barack Obama avait promis de fermer Guantanamo. 6 ans plus tard, il y reste près de 140 prisonniers. Guantanamo est aujourd'hui la plus grande zone de non-droit au monde et une des plus grandes aberrations juridiques de l'histoire contemporaine.

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Law 360 | May 23, 2017

Six Chinese investors have won visa approval through the EB-5 program, ending litigation in which they said the Department of Homeland Security failed to acknowledge that their investments in a hospital...

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Monday, 05 December 2016 21:02

EB-5 Applicants Seek Judgment in Hospital Row

Law 360 | December 5, 2016

Six Chinese investors asked a D.C. federal judge Friday to vacate a decision by the U.S. Homeland Security Department denying them access to the EB-5 visa program after they each invested...

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Law 360 | July 31, 2015

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security moved Thursday to throw out a lawsuit claiming it capriciously denied EB-5 investor visas to more than a dozen U.S. resident aliens, telling a D.C....

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Law360 | October 5, 2017

Twelve Chinese citizens who each invested $500,000 in a $31.3 million Florida real estate development project sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, alleging their EB-5 immigrant investor visa...

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