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Anwar's arrest and trial stunned the country, but Mahathir surprised few Malays--either allies or opponents--by restoring his authority so thoroughly following the crisis that he was able to handpick Abdullah Badawi as his successor.
Such a shift is likely to be dictated by the US imperative to cut defense expenditure further, in order to focus on the comprehensive domestic renewal needed to arrest the erosion in its relative power.
Beyond purging thousands of military officers, judges, and educators, the government has issued arrest warrants for dozens of journalists, and shuttered more than 100 news agencies, publications, and radio and television stations.
When the Chinese government formally announces Zhou’s arrest – probably after the conclusion of the annual session of the National People’s Congress in mid-March – the revelations of the rot within the Chinese party-state will stun even the most jaded observers.
The War on HuaweiNEW YORK – The arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is a dangerous move by US President Donald Trump’s administration in its intensifying conflict with China.
The context of the arrest matters enormously.
The US requested that Canada arrest Meng in the Vancouver airport en route to Mexico from Hong Kong, and then extradite her to the US.
Yet consider her arrest in the context of the large number of companies, US and non-US, that have violated US sanctions against Iran and other countries.
In light of this record, Meng’s arrest is a shocking break with practice.
The unprecedented arrest of Meng is even more provocative because it is based on US extra-territorial sanctions, that is, the claim by the US that it can order other countries to stop trading with third parties such as Cuba or Iran.
Indeed, Russia's military prosecutor has now issued an international arrest warrant for her, even though the officer she is accused of bribing was acquitted in a trial in Moscow last year of the very charges that prosecutors now want to question her about.
But this falls far short of what is needed to arrest the currency union’s deepening crisis.
In the prison library, however, Irving found two of the books he had written that had led to his arrest!
The apparent explanation for the IMF’s extraordinary gamble is that the managing director who made the decision to support Greece so heavily hailed from the eurozone and, at the time, was barely disguising his ambitions to run for the French presidency – that is, before his arrest in New York on charges of rape.
The online protest that ensued undoubtedly played a role in the government's decision to abolish the system and arrest the officials involved in the case.
The ICTY, by contrast, has no capacity of its own to arrest defendants.
It must rely on persuasion to secure cooperation by others – cooperation that is still being withheld in the case of the two most notorious defendants from the Bosnian War, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic..Until Tony Blair and Robin Cook became, respectively, Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom in 1997, four years after the ICTY was established, NATO troops in Bosnia failed to arrest indicted suspects even when they ran into them.
It appears from press reports that the West finally gave the green light to the Egyptian military to overthrow Morsi, arrest the Muslim Brotherhood’s leadership, and repress the Islamist rank and file.
The arrest of 21 British Muslims for conspiring to blow up airlines crossing the Atlantic underscored, once again, the growing sense of dread and inevitability that is rooted in the homegrown nature of the threat.
France did the job rather well, leaving, for example, the arrest of Gbagbo to Quattara’s forces.
However, we keep moving with our project, and I have been straight with the secret police: if they want to stop me, they need to arrest me.”
Tax the OligarchsAround the world, there is concern about the arrest of Russian oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The EU's silence in the face of his arrest and imprisonment is shameful.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s arrest and trial were orchestrated for precisely this reason.
The only way to arrest such fears is through closer and more frequent dialogue.
A Warrant of HypocrisyLONDON – Earlier this month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) upheld the request of the court’s chief prosecutor to issue an arrest warrant for Omar el-Bashir, the President of Sudan, charging him with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Where, indeed, are the arrest warrants for Bush and Cheney?
The Security Council has the power to defer the warrant for Bashir’s arrest for renewable periods of one year.
They believe that the threat of arrest can be used to force Bashir to mend his ways.
Their brain trust is either in prison, under virtual house arrest, or unable to communicate freely.
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