Fatal Consequences

Fatal Consequences

Published: May 17, 2008 @ 7:14 pm
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By Sharon Waxman

Who says the battle over stolen antiquities isn't deadly serious? This came in yesterday off the wires:

In Washington State, a renowned Asian antiquities expert has died in a federal jail. Sixty-two-year-old Roxana Brown was the director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University in Thailand. Brown had been arrested in connection with a probe into illegal art trafficking. She was detained in Seattle as she prepared to speak before an academic conference. Her family says she died of an apparent heart attack brought about by the stress of her arrest. She had been confined to a wheelchair after losing her leg in the 1980s.

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