Britain Blocks Attempt to Arrest Israeli Parliamentarian

(Reuters) Adrian Croft - Britain's top prosecutor on Thursday blocked an attempt to seek the arrest of visiting Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes. Livni, a former foreign minister, is the first senior Israeli figure to visit Britain since the government changed a war crimes law which had kept her and some other Israeli officials away for fear of arrest. She was in Britain at the invitation of Foreign Secretary William Hague.


2011-10-07 00:00:00

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