Author: Marissa Kardon Weber

[Marissa Kardon Weber is an international criminal and human rights lawyer. She works on strategic human rights litigation against Iran and its agents and instrumentalities in U.S. federal court on behalf of victims of hostage taking, torture, extrajudicial killing, and aircraft sabotage. The views expressed herein are entirely her own.] Double Standards in Extrajudicial Killings? The decades of treatment and recent likely attempted murder of novelist and defender of the freedom...

[Marissa Kardon Weber is a prosecutor in New York City and serves as a Legal Consultant for the Seychelles Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission on matters regarding grants of amnesty under international human rights law. The views expressed herein are entirely her own. Part I can be found here.]  C. Step 3: Dialogue Now, the citizenry is better equipped to generate...

[Marissa Kardon Weber is a prosecutor in New York City and serves as a Legal Consultant for the Seychelles Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission on matters regarding grants of amnesty under international human rights law. The views expressed herein are entirely her own.]  Introduction “This is not a tidy world of tyrannical men and victimized women, but a messier realm of oppressive social...