SEPTEMBER 05, 2006 RICHARD LANDES
This fall three trials will take place in Paris at the Palais de Justice on the Ile de la Cité concerning the Al Durah affair.
Palais de Justice
I will be covering these trials in person on this blog and encourage others to follow the events closely because these trials — the issues, the mechanics of justice, the reaction of the public — tell us and will tell us a great deal ...
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Prof. Richard Landes is a medievalist and teaches in the history department at Boston University. He specializes in the origins of European society around the turn of the first millennium. He obtained his BA from Harvard University and his PhD from Princeton University. He also studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Prof. Landes has published various books and edited several volumes, ...
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France2 TV invokes French defamation law, continues legal battle against critic of al Durah reporting
Journalism accountability is at stake as the French broadcasting giant continues its 8 year-old legal battle against Philippe Karsenty
The latest installment of the reporting of the Al-durah incident, dragged through French courts for over 8 years, will play out in Paris’ Appeals Court on January 16, 2013. In 2004, following his call to dismiss two of France2 TV senior staff for their reporting of the Al-durah ...
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