November 16, 2011
US court rejects Iranian antiquities seizure
More coverage of the US Appeal Court verdict on the seizure of Iranian Artefacts from two Chicago Museums.
From:
Tehran Times
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
U.S. court rejects seizure of Iranian antiquities
Tehran Times Culture DeskTEHRAN — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has rejected confiscation of Iran’s 300 Achaemenid clay tablets loaned to the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute in a session on March 29.
In the ruling, the Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s order that might have handed the artifacts over to several victims of a 1997 terrorist bombing in Israel, the Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS) reported last week.
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