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Biting the Hands that Fed Themselves

Posted on 15/02/201127/11/2012 by markbtaylor

“We just don’t have the legal tools” said Professor Yusif Qasim of the law faculty at the University of Cairo last week. He was speaking to a reporter about the possibility of recovering funds that may have been stolen from the Egyptian treasury and tucked away in a foreign bank account. “It could be a…

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Not a Good Winter for (ex) Presidents

Posted on 06/02/201115/02/2011 by markbtaylor

Former US President George Bush had to cancel his trip to Switzerland today after human rights lawyers in Geneva announced they would submit 2,500-page complaint against Bush to a Swiss court on Monday for alleged mistreatment of suspected militants at Guantanamo Bay. Switzerland has ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and…

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