Fabio Rafael FialloFabio Rafael Fiallo is an economist, writer and retired official of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He writes on issues related to international relations and the world economy and has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, The Jerusalem Post, Le Temps (Geneva) and RealClearWorld. His latest book, "Ternes Eclats" or "Dimmed Lights" (Paris, L'Harmattan), presents a critique of multilateral diplomacy, including of the anti-Israel bias that prevails in a number of international forums. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he lives in Switzerland and has the double nationality Dominican and Swiss.
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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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