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Palestinians Sue Tear Gas Maker
Loaded on March 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1993, page 9
According to Al Fair of Nov. 23, 1992, in December, 1991, the New York based Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit on behalf of nine families of Palestinians killed by tear gas in Israeli occupied Palestine. The suit, Abu Zeinah v. Federal Laboratories, was filed in U.S. District Court in …
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