By David Gespass, NLG past president and Military Law Task Force steering committee member On May 17, 2017, Chelsea Manning walked out of Fort Leavenworth thanks to the commutation of her sentence by outgoing President Barack Obama. The seven years she spent in confinement were far less than the 35 she was sentenced to, but […]
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Harper Government Ignores Torture Opponents’ Call to Ban Dick Cheney from Canada or Prosecute Him – Protest on October 31
For immediate release: October 16, 2013 Contact: Tasha Moro NLG Communications Coordinator 212-679-5100 communications@nlg.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 16, 2013 Toronto—Lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild (U.S.), International Association of Democratic Lawyers, European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (Germany), Brussells Tribunal (Belgium), International Initiative to Prosecute US Genocide in Iraq (Iraq, Egypt, Spain), Lawyers […]