The Privy Council, the British Empire’s highest appellate court, today agreed to hear arguments on the case of Ben Elizer, a Palestine Jew who has been confined in an Eritrean detention camp, despite a writ of habeas corpus granted to his attorney by the Palestine High Court.
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