All of us at Gatestone are so immensely saddened by the sudden loss of the remarkable journalist, Burak Bekdil. He was taken from us far too soon, but we will always be grateful for his extraordinary courage and brilliant analyses. You were a Superstar, dear Burak. We miss you and we send your treasured family all our love and prayers.
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.