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In the field of international human rights, he played a prominent and successful part in the campaign to release a million Jews from the Soviet Union, the release of thirty-two
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in April 1966. She died of brain cancer, following terminal lung cancer, on 4 October 2016. They had one daughter, Rachel
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Quenten Hanne charged with rape. He has been partly responsible for a number of improvements in Criminal Justice such as the introduction of tape recorded police interviews with suspects and the law against suspicious transactions.
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