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September 25, 2013

Attorney for Pakistani Drone Survivors Blocked From U.S. Hearing 
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An attorney for survivors of a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan says he is
being blocked from traveling to the United States to help his clients
appear before Congress. Shahzad Akbar of the British group Reprieve says
the State Department has approved the survivors' travel visas, but not
his. Akbar has been a vocal campaigner against the U.S. drone war,
representing more than 150 survivors and their families in lawsuits
against the United States and Pakistani governments. His clients, Rafiq
ur-Rehman, and Rehman's two young children, are set to testify at a
House hearing on drone strikes overseas. Both children were injured in
an attack last October that also left their grandmother dead.

 

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