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Interrogation lawyers may face overseas charges

16/05/2008

Philippe Sands believes that several former Bush administration lawyers should think twice before they travel abroad in the future. Sands says that these attorneys approved interrogation procedures for prisoners at Guantánamo Bay that may have crossed the line into torture....

The fourth estate versus Cherie Blair

19/05/2008

"Bye, I won't miss you, said Cherie Blair as she left Downing Street - or, to be more accurate, as Tony Blair left Downing Street for the last time as Prime Minister.Since the publication of her memoirs Speaking For Myself,...

Did interrogation lawyers pass the buck?

21/05/2008

Philippe Sands QC wrote Torture Team, his new book about the US Government's interrogation policy, as a kind of mystery. (The front cover even sports an endorsement from master spy novelist John Le Carré.) But Sands's tale is a uniquely...

SSQ in Tanzania: welcome aboard!

21/05/2008

Shilton Sharpe Quarry (SSQ) this year is supporting Streetkids, a children’s charity based in Frankfurt, which seeks to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged children in Tanzania and currently cares for 17 children in two orphanages in Dar es Salaam.The...

 

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