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French court awards damages for 2009 Yemenia plane crash

The Lawton Constitution 14 Sep 2022

The Yemenia flight departed from Paris, picked up more passengers in the southern French city of Marseille and made a stopover in Sanaa, Yemen, where 142 passengers and 11 crew members boarded another plane to continue to the capital of Comoros, an island nation off Africa’s east coast ... Yemenia lawyers said they would appeal the verdict.

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Ghanaians must get used to not being top dog in African football

Ghana Web 12 Jan 2022

It is however not altogether unfounded ... That said, the Black Stars have a way of surprising when least expected and one can only hope that rock-bottom expectations following the Morocco defeat will propel them to turn things around against Comoros and Gabon. @Sammybartels. The writer is a lawyer and sports journalist. .

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Peace Corps faces questions over death of volunteer from Inverness

Hartford Courant 05 Oct 2020

The volunteer, Bernice Heiderman, died alone in a hotel room on the island nation of Comoros off Africa’s east coast in January 2018 after sending desperate text messages to her family ... The Peace Corps had one doctor in Comoros, Said, who had been hired by the agency several years earlier.

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ICC prosecutor ordered to reconsider Israel's 2010 Gaza flotilla raid

The National 02 Sep 2019

A legal team representing the Island of Comoros, where the Mavi Marmara was ... Gulden Sonmez, a lawyer acting on behalf of the Comoros, said the ICC Appeals Chamber had made a “strong decision,” and urged the public not to forget the ongoing plight of blockaded Palestinians in Gaza.

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Comoros slaps top opposition leader with seven-year jail term

Business Day 18 Dec 2018

A court in Comoros has sentenced a top opposition figure to seven years behind bars for assault during a controversial referendum on changes to the constitution ... “The court’s decisions cannot be appealed, which means they are violating the constitution and the international agreements which Comoros is a party to,” said lawyer Azad Mze.

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Comoros Power Grab Rejected By Opposition, Amid Pleas for International Intervention

AfricaMetro 31 Aug 2018

President Azali Assoumani of the Comoros Islands is tightening his grip on power.

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Ex-Comoros president charged with graft in connection to passports scheme

Yahoo Daily News 21 Aug 2018

A lawyer for Sambi said he was being held in "prison-like" conditions ... The Comoros Islands, an Indian Ocean nation of about 800,000 people, began its programme to sell passports in 2008 as a way of raising much-needed cash ... Sambi's lawyers had challenged his house arrest and argued that the move was an attack on democracy in Comoros.

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Comoros Islands and the secret and subversive Iranian connection

Arabnews 30 Jun 2018

— Hossein Mokhtari Zanjani, an influential figure in Iran’s energy sector and lawyer who handles domestic and international disputes, acquired a Comoros passport in 2013 ... His lawyer, who said he was unaware of a country called the Comoros Islands, said he would try to seek a response from Zarrab but did not supply one.

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Special Report: As sanctions bit, Iranian executives bought African passports

Yahoo Daily News 29 Jun 2018

- Hossein Mokhtari Zanjani, an influential figure in Iran's energy sector and lawyer who handles domestic and international disputes, acquired a Comoros passport in 2013 ... His lawyer, who said he was unaware of a country called the Comoros Islands, said he would try to seek a response from Zarrab but did not supply one to Reuters.

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Comoros seeks US, Interpol help to vet buyers of Comoros passports

This is Money 27 Dec 2017

MORONI, Dec 27 (Reuters) - The Comoros government has asked Interpol and the U.S ... Souef Mohamed El Amine also said Comoros would cancel 158 diplomatic passports that had been bought and scrap any nominations of honorary consulships that could not be justified in a review now under way by authorities.

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Who Will Stand for Us?

Human Rights 30 Aug 2017

Summary It is important that I have a lawyer. It is important because whenever he comes, we will continue telling him what happened to us… I want our lawyer to stand for us in the courtroom ... It is important for us to also have a lawyer who will stand for us ... in the Al Bashir case, where lawyers are acting pro bono , and the Comoros situation.

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ICC prosecutor must rethink Gaza flotilla probe: Judges

Press TV 07 Nov 2015

However, lawyers representing Comoros had sought a review of Bensouda’s original rejection, insisting that, “the interests of justice and fairness, which are the core of the ICC’s mandate, strongly militate in favor of the prosecutor reconsidering her decision.”.

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ICC repeats prosecutor has to reconsider Gaza flotilla probe

Denver Post 06 Nov 2015

... was sailing under a Comoros flag ... Lawyers representing Comoros sought a review of Bensouda's original rejection, saying that, "the interests of justice and fairness, which are the core of the ICC's mandate, strongly militate in favor of the Prosecutor reconsidering her decision."

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Gaza flotilla lawyers asks ICC to reconsider probe

The Siasat Daily 30 Jan 2015

Lawyers representing the Comoros today asked International Criminal Court judges to order its ... But the Comoros' lawyers said "those on the flotilla are all entitled to the ICC's condemnation of impunity and to its sanctioning of individuals who might have hoped to enjoy impunity.".

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Lawyers seek review of ICC refusal to probe Gaza flotilla

Times Union 29 Jan 2015

A team of lawyers representing the government of Comoros filed a request Thursday for the court to order Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to reconsider her refusal ...