Pour la première fois, des survivants d’attaques de drones US vont témoigner devant le Congrès américain - The New Yorker
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Rafeeq, Zubair, and Nabeela are traveling from Pakistan to Washington, D.C., to appear at an October 29 briefing in Congress. It will be the first time that American legislators hear direct testimony from civilian victims of a drone strike.
The Rehmans were scheduled to travel with Shahzad Akbar, a lawyer who has represented more than a hundred and fifty survivors of drone strikes in litigation against the United States and against Pakistan, for failing to protect its citizens against C.I.A. drone strikes. Akbar is the director of the Foundation for Fundamental Rights, a Pakistani human-rights group, and a legal fellow with the British N.G.O. Reprieve. The family’s visas have been approved, but Akbar’s has not, although he submitted his application in August, with a request for approval by Florida Democrat Alan Grayson, the Congressman who called the briefings. In fact, although Akbar used to visit the United States frequently, and says that for two years he held a U.S. diplomatic visa, he has had difficulty obtaining one since he began to investigate C.I.A. drone strikes .