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An Arab Dissident - Practicing law cost Beirut's Muhammad Mugraby his freedom
WSJ ^ | August 13, 2003 | CLAUDIA ROSETT

Posted on 08/21/2003 6:00:00 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Summers in Beirut are hot and damp, and in the basement prison of the Palace of Justice, where the accused await their hearings, temperatures climb to well over 100 degrees. Sweltering in that prison right now is one of the Arab world's most enlightened and courageous attorneys, Muhammad Mugraby. He was arrested Friday on charges of "impersonating a lawyer."


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baathparty; lebanon; middleeast; mugraby; syria

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