Amnesty report details an increase in intimidation, harassment and violence over past two years Chinese authorities are increasingly resorting to attacks and secret detentions in a crackdown on activist lawyers that has worsened this year amid government efforts to prevent the growth of an Arab spring-style protest movement, Amnesty International said.
Amnesty said the government has also suspended or revoked lawyers’ licences to stop them from taking sensitive cases, such as defending pro-democracy dissidents, members of banned religious movements or government critics.
“Intimidation, harassment, violence, arbitrary detention were all increasingly used against lawyers …
Government signals it will not challenge fiscal enforcement role for European commission and European court of justice
The prime minister has abandoned his pledge to block the eurozone from using common EU institutions to police a new regime of fiscal integration and stiff German-style rules for the embattled single currency.
Ahead of Monday’s summit of EU leaders, which is due to finalise “political agreement” on the fiscal compact treaty, the government signalled that it would not challenge a role for the European commission and, more sensitively, would also allow resort to the …
Norton Rose and Maclay Murray & Spens have taken key advisory roles on the sale of Scottish dairy company Robert Wiseman Dairies to Germany’s Muller.
The deal, announced earlier this month (16 January), will see the company change hands for £279.5m, with the Wiseman family reportedly set to gain £98.1m for their stake.
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Eastman Chemical is set to acquire specialty chemicals manufacturer Solutia Inc. for $4.7 billion, including debt, that will allow the former Eastman Kodak subsidiary to expand its Asian Pacific operations.
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This time last year it was Ivory Coast, and today it was Kazakh sovereign wealth fund-controlled BTA bank which failed to pay coupons on its debt, totalling $160 million in all.
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