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Originally published May 18, 2010
Robert Amsterdam, an international human rights lawyer acting on behalf of Thaksin Shinawatra, the deposed Thai prime minister, speaks to Al Jazeera about the political standoff in Bangkok.
Amsterdam says international mediation is the way to resolve the conflict. On his blog Amsterdam promises a “temporary Thai-ification” of his work: “Given the serious political crisis unraveling in Thailand (…) we are planning to publish quite a lot of related content…”
The so far most famous client of Amsterdam was fallen Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. As you may know Khodorkovsky remains somewhere in Siberia in a labor camp. But every jail term ends one day. Not so every exile, or not? Here’s the Al Jazeera interview:
Robert Amsterdam on behalf of Thaksin Shinawatra, demanding an international tribunal to investigate the Thai government (yes, the interviewer is not only cute, she asks the right questions tearing him into pieces, especially love her “of course” mid-through):
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