Results for “Sharansky”

4.2.12 WC: 191694 Anatoly Sharansky: Death For Spying For the United States Other potential death cases raised issues not of science, but of politics, diplomacy and economics. The case that combined these elements also involved the client with whom I most closely identified per...

…rael Ba’Aliyah, the main Russian immigrant political party. It had been set up by the iconic Soviet-era refusenik Natan Sharansky – or, as he was then known, Anatoly Sharansky. He’d been an ally of Andrei Sakharov, an outspoken human rights advocate and, until he was finally rele...

… family out. We have remained close friends since that time. Another close friend who started out as a client is Natan Sharansky, now a cabinet member of the Israeli government. When I represented him his name was Anatoly Sharansky and he was an imprisoned Soviet refusenick. His...

…Israel’s 60" birthday. I was there for the same reason. I had just appeared on a panel with Vaclav Havel and with Natan Sharansky, both of whom who had been imprisoned by Communist regimes, and both of whose cases I had worked on as a defense attorney. After the completion of the...

…confidence motion in the Knesset. It was never going to pass. But only days after I’d made him Interior Minister, Natan Sharansky let it be known he was going to vote against us. He didn’t. He stayed away from the chamber, in effect abstaining. But I’d been put on notice. I did...

…rael Ba’Aliyah, the main Russian immigrant political party. It had been set up by the iconic Soviet-era refusenik Natan Sharansky — or, as he was then known, Anatoly Sharansky. He’d been an ally of Andrei Sakharov, an outspoken human rights advocate and, until he was finally rele...

… events was held in the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem. I got into the elevator and by coincidence both Mikael Gorbachov and Sharansky got into the same elevator. Gorbachov recognized us (I had met him in Moscow during one of my human rights trips while he was the Chairman of the Comm...

…confidence motion in the Knesset. It was never going to pass. But only days after I’d made him Interior Minister, Natan Sharansky let it be known he was going to vote against us. He didn’t. He stayed away from the chamber, in effect abstaining. But I’d been put on notice. I did...

the National Religious Party and Sharansky’s Yisrael ba’Aliyah were all

…ere in no small part a result of our unresolved conflict with the Palestinians. Shas, the National Religious Party and Sharansky’s Yisrael ba’Aliyah were all threatening to pull out of the government because of the summit. Nothing I said could change their minds. Sharansky was t...

now a cabinet member of the Israeli government. When I represented him his name was Anatoly Sharansky and he was an imprisoned Soviet refusenick. His mother and wife asked me

Sharansky and I were on a panel together discussing human rights. When it was over we got onto the same elevator. Remarkably

but instead I said it was in the Sharansky case. He expressed surprise saying that

Sharansky and I were on a panel together discussing human rights. When it was

…alled my friend and colleague Irwin Cotler in Canada and told him of the call. He was, at the time, working on both the Sharansky and Mandela case, and he had previously sought my advice on the Mandela matter. He suggested that we inquire whether there were any South African spie...