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Punch Newspapers Sections SUNDAY ABORISADE A human rights activist and lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, and other prominent lawyers have written a joint letter to the President of Cape Verde, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, seeking the immediate release of a Venezuelan special envoy, Alex Saab, currently being detained in the country. The letter dated January 7, 2021, and addressed to Fonseca, was jointly signed by Falana, Jose M.P. Monteiro, Rutsel S. J Martha and Baltasar R. Garzon, who are all of Saab’s  counsel. The lawyers, in the letter obtained by our correspondent on Saturday, described the continued...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sunday Aborisade, Abuja Human Rights crusader and legal luminary, Mr. Femi Falana, and other prominent lawyers have written a joint letter to the President of Cape Verde, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, seeking the immediate release of a Venezuelan special envoy, Alex Saab, currently being detained in the country. The letter dated January 7 and addressed to Fonseca, was jointly signed by Falana, Jose M.P. Monteiro, Rutsel S. J Martha, and Baltasar R. Garzon, who are all Saab’s legal counsels. The lawyers in the letter, obtained by our correspondent on Saturday, described the...

Femi Falana, human rights lawyer and a counsel to Alex Saab, a special envoy of the Venezuelan government, says the continued detention of his client by the Cape Verdean authorities is illegal.

Top court rules Germany not liable over deadly Kunduz airstrike Afghans who lost family in a German-initiated 2009 NATO airstrike have failed on appeal to establish German state liability for compensation. An airstrike carried out by the NATO force in Afghanistan targeted a fuel tanker hijacked by Taliban insurgents Two Afghan plaintiffs seeking recompense for family lost in a 2009 NATO airstrike near a German base have failed to persuade Germany's (BVerfG) constitutional court to quash a 2016 lower court decision. Instead, the Constitutional Court declined to decide, saying it could not fau...