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Yang’s Washington-based lawyer Jared Genser said yesterday that Yang will file an appeal of his sentence—he has 10 days to do so—though he added that the odds of getting the sentence overturned are “probably zero...
Though Yang’s lawyer in Beijing, Mo Shaoping, has said that he believes Yang’s sentence will probably be reduced by the two years he has already served in prison, Genser does not believe that will happen...
Last month, the State Department began investigating reports that Yang had been physically abused in prison. According to Fu, Yang was moved last month to solitary confinement where he was handcuffed, prevented from exercising and denied access to his lawyer...
Saddam Hussein does not appear to be lacking in lawyers willing to defend him when he is tried for war atrocities and crimes against humanity, presumably in Baghdad next year. "I've had about 1,500 lawyers ask me if they can join my team," says Mohammad Rashdan, 55, a Jordanian lawyer retained by the ex-tyrant's first wife Sajida, who is exiled in Qatar. "Every time I go to court, lawyers come up and ask me if they can join the defense." But that might be a little premature: the job isn't Rashdan's quite yet. French...
Rashdan, a former associate of Saddam's, sent a letter to the Paris bar association last month, accusing Verges of falsely claiming to be Saddam's lawyer. "The family has refused to allow Verges to represent [Saddam]," Rashdan insists. Not so, says Verges. In a cluttered Paris office decorated with African carvings and bronze Buddhas, he offers up a two-paragraph letter, apparently mailed from Switzerland by Saddam's nephew Ali Barzan al-Tikriti, asking Verges to help his uncle. The letter's authenticity could not be verified; alTikriti slipped out of Switzerland last month, and Verges doesn't know...