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Tuesday, June 1, 1993
Volume:
9
Issue:
6
232
Abstract:
The Criminal Tribunal of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru ruled that the extradition of Panamanian citizen Carlos Wittgreen, a former associate of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, was inadmissible. The Peruvian government released Mr. Wittgreen on the evening of April 7, 1993. Mr. Wittgreen’s defense attorney Andres Davila described the request as “a purely political issue” because Mr. Wittgreen was being persecuted for being a personal friend of Mr. Noriega’s and almost a cousin of General Noriega’s wife…[more]