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Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, placed on “immediate administrative leave” as university investigates allegations.. A research scholar at Yale Law School also moonlights as a member of a U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity, according to web postings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Those postings reveal that Helyeh Doutaghi, the deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, is a member of Samidoun, an organization sanctioned by the U.S. government in October in an announcement that described it as a "sham charity" and a "front organization" for the Popular Front...

Prosecutors appeal ruling to free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah serving life sentence for 1982 killing of US military attaché Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov PARIS — A French court on Friday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats, prosecutors said. The court said Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the murders, would be released on December 6 provided he leaves France, French anti-terror prosecutors said in a statement to AFP, adding that they would appeal. “In (a) decision dated...

PARIS A special French court on Friday refused to release a Lebanese man serving a life sentence for his role in the murders of a U.S. military attaché and an Israeli diplomat in 1982. The Paris court, which rules on parole requests, overturned a lower court's ruling to free the man, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. Abdallah, of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, or FARL, was convicted in 1987 for complicity in the killings of Charles Ray, deputy military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, and Yacov Barsimentov, second secretary at the Israeli Embassy, as well as the attempted murder of...