A wealthy US activist faces Spanish court scrutiny over a controversial Trump administration extradition request alleging Hamas support, highlighting tensions between US foreign policy and international legal standards.
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James ‘Fergie’ Chambers, a Cox Enterprises heir, faced a two-hour hearing about alleged support for HamasA two-hour hearing in Spain’s high court Friday on the US extradition request of wealthy leftwing activist and philanthropist James “Fergie” Chambers turned out to be a study in contrasts.Chambers’s defense took most of the session to query the US citizen and detail irregularities in the Trump administration’s extradition request – several of which the Guardian has reported on – as well as the figures of Spanish law that would lead the three-judge panel to deny the request; while the prosecutor sped through his case, head down, asking Chambers no questions at all. Continue reading...
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