All of us at Gatestone Institute are devastated to learn of the untimely passing of Elon Dershowitz, 64, son of Gatestone's longtime friend and Distinguished Senior Fellow Alan M. Dershowitz. Elon was as warm, kind and passionate about furthering truth and justice as his father is. We shall miss him always. Our hearts go out to the Dershowitz family with all our love.
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.