Foreign Aid Workers Choose Their Lawyer
From Times Wire Reports
Eight foreign aid workers in Afghanistan being tried on charges of preaching Christianity chose a lawyer to defend them at their trial, now in its second week.
David Donahue, consul general at the U.S. Embassy in neighboring Pakistan, and fellow diplomats from Australia and Germany spent two hours with their detained nationals at the school where the aid workers have been held since their arrest in early August.
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