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Richard Painter was chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W Bush administration, and believes James Comey's dismissal was "a political decision by the president".
He told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that he believed the real reason for the sacking "was because the FBI was in the middle of an investigation" into (alleged) links between the Trump campaign and Russia during the election.
The administration says Mr Comey was fired over his handling of the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's emails.
'Emaciated, unrecognisable': China releases human rights lawyer from custody
Li Heping was held in secret for two years and deprived of all contact with his family but is now back home
The last time Terry Halliday saw Li Heping, just a few days before he was snatched by police in the summer of 2015, he remembers sitting down to lunch with a stimulating, thoughtful and physically fit man.
“Slim, yes, but not emaciated. A man clearly in his 40s … A man who was fully present,” the American Bar Foundation scholar recalled.
Just days later Li, a crusading Chinese human rights lawyer, was spirited into secret custody at the start of an unprecedented government crackdown on his trade that has drawn widespread international condemnation.
South Korea’s new president has a juggling act far beyond the norm
Beside the economy and jobs, he contends with a neighbor bent on Seoul's destruction.
MAY 10, 2017 11:30 AM
The son of North Korean refugees, once jailed for political activism, a former human rights lawyer, and now South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in will take the oath of office on Wednesday and speak to the nation shortly after.
With the former president Park Geun-hye in jail on corruption charges and the threat of North Korean aggression looming, the irony of Moon’s win hasn’t been lost.
His parents escaped from the North during the Korean War that ended in an armistice 64 years ago, while in the 1970s he was jailed for protesting the rule of Park Chung-hee, the father of the now incarcerated former president.
“I will make a just, united country,” Moon told a crowd gathered just before midnight to see the man who entered politics to lead a party just five years ago.
Why migrants, en route to the United States, are pausing in Mexico
Many migrants still hope to reach the US, but say they know better than to try to break into President Trump's country.
Cradling her newborn son in a steamy migrant shelter near the Guatemalan border, Concepcion Bautista says she still plans to reach the United States, but will linger in Mexico to see how US President Trump's immigration policies play out.
Ms. Bautista fled Guatemala after gang members threatened to kill her and seized her home, demanding money to give it back.
Her ultimate goal is to reunite with her father and two sons up north, but for the time being, she believes applying for asylum in Mexico is smarter than trying to break into Mr. Trump's United States.
"I'm not going back to Guatemala," she said at the shelter in the southern Mexican city of Tenosique. "I have faith that we'll be able to cross but for now, at least, I'm staying in Mexico."
INTERCEPTED PODCAST: JAMES COMEY, CHELSEA MANNING AND THE SECRETS AMERICA KEEPS
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