Middle East Monitor

January 31, 2014
HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER SPEAKS OUT ON ARREST WARRANT FOR THE LEADER OF THE ISRAELI OPPOSITION AND DAVID MILIBAND'S PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Following the issue of an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, Israel's former foreign minister, Sarah McSherry, partner at Christian Khan solicitors and executive committee member of...
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January 31, 2014
Growing outrage over British government suggestion to change the law to protect suspected Israeli war criminals
The British government is said to be 'urgently' looking into its universal jurisdiction laws, following the successful issuing of a warrant by Westminster magistrates' court for the arrest of...
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January 31, 2014
Letter to the Prime Minister signed by MPs, peers and lawyers opposing changes on Universal Jurisdiction
A Letter to the Prime Minister, Gordon BrownDear Prime Minister, We are shocked at suggestions by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Minister Ivan Lewis and Foreign Secretary David Miliband, that...
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January 28, 2014 | Dr Daud Abdullah
'The UK is not a banana republic'
By Dr Daud Abdullah, for Al Jazeera English Director of the Middle East Monitor David Miliband, the UK's foreign secretary, has apologised to his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, after...
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January 28, 2014 Middle East Monitor
What's the point of David Miliband?
By Yvonne RidleyI am beginning to ask myself, "What's the point of David Miliband?" – a question I've no doubt Gordon Brown posed just a few days ago following...
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