Pictured: Joseph Lieberman, then a Senator for Connecticut, flanked by lawmakers from both parties, speaks at a press conference calling for the federal government to upgrade the communications network used by emergency services, on November 15, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
We deeply mourn the untimely passing of Gatestone Institute's Advisory Board member, former Senator Joe Lieberman -- a true American hero and stellar human being. Together with his beloved Hadassah, he sought to build bridges and was the voice of reason and ethics. May his memory be a blessing.
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.