Jaïs MehajiJaïs Mehaji, a Moroccan student at McGill University, specializing in Political Science and Communication Studies, is currently interning with FairVote. His interests include Middle East Politics, particularly developments in the Arab Spring, as well as American foreign policy, and issues of nationalism in the post-communist world.
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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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