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Convicted for Embassy Siege
On December 20, 2007, The Tocqueville Connection reports on the conviction by a Japanese court of a Red Army supporter who helped coordinate a siege of the French embassy in the Netherlands in 1974. The defendant's involvement in the hostage-taking at the embassy led to a sentence of 20 years imprisonment which the Tokyo High Court now upheld. -- Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.
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Trash, Loot, Art, Ownership
Ancient trash as modern art is the subject of litigation in many countries. Iran just won a ruling in London requiring the return of artifacts from an art dealer, the International Herald Tribune reports in UK Appeals Court Reinstates Iran's Claim to Art it Says was Looted, on December 21, 2007. -- Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.
Disclosure: The author's partner, Thomas G. Corcoran, Jr., represents Iran in similar matters in the United States.
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