Efraim Cohen
Efraim Cohen's career as a U.S. diplomat spanned nearly 25 years, and included assignments to London, Capetown, La Paz, Tel Aviv, and Baghdad. He retired from the diplomatic corps after his second tour in Tel Aviv - as Cultural Attache - and now lives permanently in Israel, where he is a Senior Fellow at Bar-Ilan University's Center for International Communications, and a Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. He is also an adviser to the U.S. Department of State's Office of Civil Rights. Mr. Cohen writes on Israel, the Middle East and public diplomacy.
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Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped the U.S. locate Osama bin Laden, has been in jail in Pakistan since he was arrested days after the raid on bin Laden's compound in 2011. In 2013, he was granted a retrial, with a new charge that appears politically motivated: charged with murder in regard to the death, eight years earlier, of a patient he had treated. Afridi has gone on a hunger strike protest his unspeakable prison conditions -- including torture. His former lawyer, Samiullah Khan Afridi, was murdered by the Taliban in March 2015.
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