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In 2009, Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer campaigning against corruption, died in prison after being denied medical care for life-threatening conditions.
The same year, another lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, a champion of human rights, was shot following a news conference.
Similarly, opposition politician and lawyer Alexei Navalny was convicted for having given poor legal advice to a provincial timber company that caused the company to lose money – a “crime” that carried a five-year prison sentence.
Meanwhile, the anti-corruption lawyer and opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s appeal to boycott the election backfired.
Turnbull, the urbane but arrogant former journalist, lawyer, and investment banker, whose deposition of Abbott in 2015 triggered a crusade of sustained internal hatred which finally drove his own ouster last week, was initially popular – and apparently as liberal in his instincts as Abbott was reactionary.
Indeed, following a victory in an American court, Gu, a lawyer, wrote a book in which she claimed that China provides “the fairest method of trial.”
These supposed enemies have included former Yukos Oil Company Chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who doubted Putin’s fitness to be president; the anti-corruption lawyer Alexei Navalny, who was investigating Putin’s wealth; and the punk rock group Pussy Riot, who mocked the Russian Orthodox Church, a core constituency for Putin.
Putin’s background was in the KGB, while Medvedev is a lawyer who has attacked Russia’s “legal nihilism” and denounced the fashionable concept of “sovereign democracy.”
Through a British lawyer, he attempted to persuade Assad to end the bloodshed.
Take the case of Maria Victoria Fallon, a lawyer in Medellin, capital of Colombia’s most violent state.
An obvious tool here is to broaden the US Magnitsky Act, which prohibits the 18 people identified as being directly responsible for the detention, abuse, and death of the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky from entering the US or using its financial system.
If we have a moral "right" it must be possible for us, in principle, to insist on its being respected, or to complain to whoever has the counterpart obligation if it is not being respected, or to delegate somebody else – such as our lawyer – to claim that our rights be respected.
Even in lawsuit-happy America one could not find a lawyer to represent my claim against the hunters who, three centuries ago, deprived me of the chance to see the now-extinct Dodo.
Indeed, when impeachment witness Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman was fired, security officers marched his twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, a lawyer on the National Security Council staff, out of the White House alongside him.
Amal Clooney is a world-renowned human-rights lawyer.
In August 2015, the Associated Press published a tweet that read:“Amal Clooney, actor’s wife, representing Al-Jazeera journalist accused in Egypt of ties to extremists.”The tweet drew widespread criticism, and the AP later referred to her as a human-rights lawyer.
As physicians with special training in forensic evaluations, we had traveled to Tijuana to meet with Juan, at the request of his lawyer.
So, after making his request at the border, he was handcuffed, taken to a small cell, and told to sign papers that he could not read, without consulting a lawyer or representative.
One month after we submitted a forensic medical evaluation in support of Juan’s US asylum claim, we learned from his lawyer that Juan had left Tijuana to return home.
But she also told law students at the Catholic University of Notre Dame to “keep in mind that [their] fundamental purpose in life is not to be a lawyer, but to know, love, and serve God.”
A prominent lawyer who tweeted his objections to recent Supreme Court decisions was convicted of criminal contempt.
As a young Ukrainian lawyer friend lamented, “Any thinking, pragmatic person would vote for Poroshenko, or maybe [former Prime Minister] Yuliya Tymoshenko,” because, despite their faults, “they did a lot for us.”
As my lawyer friend pointed out, irrational politics are nothing new for Ukraine, whose history has been “a constant carnival led by a bunch of clowns.”
Licking the Boot that Kicks YouNEW YORK – Watching Michael D. Cohen, US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and self-described “fixer,” testify to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform was a remarkable spectacle to behold.
Barr’s actions raise the question whether he is acting as the nation’s top law-enforcement official, or as Trump’s own defense lawyer.
Alex Magaisa, a lawyer, recently described how extensive official looting of a state-run agricultural support scheme had resulted in massive public debt.
She has the tenacity and political skills to have succeeded first as a lawyer, then as a politician, and most recently as an international technocrat.
US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell, another lawyer, had five years’ experience on the Fed’s Board of Governors when appointed.
The most terrifying claim by the president’s defenders, made by former Harvard Law School professor and prominent appellate defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz, was that if a president believes his reelection is in the public interest, what he does to advance that goal isn’t impeachable.
In fact, Japan lacks many of the elements of due process found in Anglo-American jurisprudence, such as the right to have a lawyer present during questioning.
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