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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · Aug 13

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

Opinion | When Is It Genocide?

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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? @timlihoreau.bsky.social · Jul 30

The human rights lawyer and The Poet!

@philippesands.bsky.social on his musical claim to fame.

Hear the whole amazing episode here…
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42L...

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#LeonardCohen

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · Jun 26

A new international tribunal is created, on the crime of aggression in Ukraine: www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

Ukraine and the Council of Europe sign Agreement on establishing a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine - Portal - www.coe.int

Secretary General Strasbourg 25 June 2025

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · May 30

OK. Im going to think of something even better than mayhem. Bloody pandemonium?

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · May 30

Mayhem is my middle name.*

* (It’s Robert.)

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · May 30

Prepare for trouble! I am in uber cross-examination mode, and if you are a hostile witness there will be mayhem!

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · May 29

Talking to @philippesands.bsky.social on stage is always fantastic - but it’s also absolutely the most high octane thing you’re going to do that day (unless your life gets all Mission: Impossible) because he asks Questions. There are no gimmes. You will sound like a thinker because you *will* think…

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Francesc Trillas Jané @francesctrillas.bsky.social · May 3

“Pinochet y Rauff escaparon de la justicia, pero gracias a @philippesands.bsky.social no escaparán de la verdad”

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Parlament Österreich @parlament.gv.at · May 2

🗓️ AVISO: Buchpräsentation "Die Verschwundenen von Londres 38" von @philippesands.bsky.social am 9. Mai um 17.00 Uhr im #OeParl. Die Buchvorstellung findet im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe "Literatur am Ring" statt. Mehr Infos & Anmeldung für Medien: https://parl.at/f5g-

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De Balie @debalie.bsky.social · Apr 24

Waarom is het belangrijk om te herdenken? We vroegen het niemand minder dan @philippesands.bsky.social

Het hele programma is hier terug te kijken: www.youtube.com/live/GEUkTOJ...

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Apr 24

In his book on Pinochet, @philippesands.bsky.social interviews Jack Straw who regrets letting the former dictator go

'I kept this bloke locked up for sixteen months. I could have decided he was fit to travel and left it to the Spanish courts. I wish I had, but there you go’

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Seán Moncrieff @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social · Apr 22

On the show today: The dangers of sunbeds; @philippesands.bsky.social on Pinochet & a Nazi; @d62.bsky.social on street photography; Post-Easter brain mush; World news; Lesbian speed-dating...

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Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · Apr 21

Actual court bundle displayed in window of Foyles bookshop to promote @philippesands.bsky.social book on Pinochet case.

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Philippe Sands on war crimes and impunity - from Pinochet to now - ABC listen

In 1998, the former Chilean head of state Augusto Pinochet was arrested on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide. Philippe Sands was called to advise Pinochet on his claim to immunity, but w...

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · Apr 16

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Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street – On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia

Sam Leith’s guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the lawyer and writer Philippe Sands, whose new book 38 Londres Street describes the legal and diplomatic tussle over the potential extradition of...

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UCL Faculty of Laws @laws.ucl.ac.uk · Apr 14

Did you hear UCL Laws' @philippesands.bsky.social discuss human rights abuses, impunity and fighting for justice on #BBCRadio4's Start the Week programme this morning? Listen to the recording at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Impunity and fighting for justice

Tom Sutcliffe talks to Philippe Sands, Kenneth Roth and Lina Sinjab

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · Apr 13

Sunday 4 May, talking with Baroness Brenda Hale on #38LondresStreet, #impunity #justice at #SouthBankCentre www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/an-...

An Evening with Philippe Sands | Southbank Centre

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International Nuremberg Principles Academy @nurembergacademy.bsky.social · Apr 11

📖 Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social returns w/ "38 Londres Street"—a gripping story of law, memory & pursuit.

🎙️Join the conversation on 6 May 2025 in Courtroom 600.

From Pinochet to Patagonia—don't miss it.

🔗 bit.ly/4jbHZeG

#PhilippeSands #38LondresStreet #NurembergAcademy #Courtroom600

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · Apr 10

#38Londres at the Austrian Parliament, on 9 May: www.parlament.gv.at/erleben/vera...

Literatur am Ring: Buchpräsentation Philippe Sands „Die Verschwundenen von Londres 38. Über Pinochet in England und einen Nazi in Patagonien.“ | Parlament Österreich

Literatur am Ring: Buchpräsentation Philippe Sands „Die Verschwundenen von Londres 38. Über Pinochet in England und einen Nazi in Patagonien.“

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · Apr 1

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‘The Settlers’ Writer-Director Felipe Gálvez Sets Spy Thriller ‘Impunity’ As Second Project

The Settlers' writer-director is adapting the film, set around the arrest of Pinochet in London, from Philippe Sands' book '38 Londres Street'.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · Mar 31

Here’s @philippesands.bsky.social telling @newsagents.bsky.social American experts have privately expressed concern to him that we won’t have midterms in 2026

Is that likely? Doubtful. But Sands is a serious scholar, and *American* experts are saying this to him

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Will Marine Le Pen's conviction embolden the Far Right?

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 03/31/2025 · 37m

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · Mar 31

Off shortly to visit @maitlis.bsky.social and @newsagents.bsky.social to talk about #38LondresStreet, on #impunity, #Pinochet and #Rauff ...

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · Mar 31

Delighted to be speaking tomorrow, 1 April (Fool's Day!) at the Cambridge Festival: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/phili...

Philippe Sands : On Impunity, Pinochet and Patagonia. A Journey

In the heart of Santiago, the infamous 38 Londres Street becomes the haunting backdrop for a riveting tale that intertwines the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London, the post-war life of senior SS

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Mark Lazarowicz @marklazarowicz.bsky.social · Mar 31

This latest book from @philippesands.bsky.social is another 'must read' from the author of 'East West Street'.

Mark Lazarowicz @marklazarowicz.bsky.social · Mar 31

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands review – war crimes revisited

In the final part of a bravura trilogy detailing the struggle to bring war criminals to account, Sands tracks a former SS commander to Chile, where he found a friend in Augusto Pinochet

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · Mar 30

Thank you dear Richard - first ever tap on '38 Londres Street', could not have been with anyone better.

Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · Mar 30

Delighted to be in conversation with the great @philippesands.bsky.social for the first of the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social programme in the Oxford Literary Festival about his amazing new work, ‘38 Londres Street’.

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Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social · Mar 30

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El dictador y el nazi

Philippe Sands convierte debates jurídicos en apasionantes conversaciones que nos atañen a todos: la fuerza de la ley, la impunidad nociva para nuestra existencia civilizada

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Marc Bassets @marcbassets.bsky.social · Mar 29

"... hay pruebas contundentes de que un nazi implicado en atrocidades durante el III Reich —el inventor de la cámara de gas móvil, nada menos—, continuó actuando desde Sudamérica."
Por @lafuentejavi.bsky.social sobre el nuevo y esperado libro de @philippesands.bsky.social
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Pinochet y un nazi en Chile: Philippe Sands, el escritor que imparte justicia sobre el convulso siglo XX

El autor británico publica ‘Calle Londres 38′, un libro sobre el proceso judicial del dictador, la presencia de Walther Rauff en aquel país y la relación entre ambos

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