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In northern Uganda, ICC charges against leaders of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army have helped bring an end to years of brutal fighting, and marginalized the LRA’s chief, Joseph Kony.
The justice minister, a Mubarak-era holdover, granted powers to the military intelligence and military police authorities to arrest civilians on charges as minor as traffic disruption and “insulting” the country’s leaders.
“It took thirty years before I found out,” McNamara said, “that there were already nuclear arms on Cuba: 162 charges, of which 90 were tactical nuclear weapons.”
And if it stays the same, they accuse us of trying to avoid these two charges.
“That’s illegal,” I kept saying when the candidates spoke of “killing bad guys” rather than arresting or extraditing them to face criminal charges.
Even though his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is now in power, Thaksin is still trying to evade trial in Thai courts on a wide array of financial charges.
If this law is used to ensure that politically loyal judges preside over cases brought against opposition politicians, in order to convict them on trumped-up charges, these officials will be prevented from running in the 2019 parliamentary and 2020 presidential elections.
But Bangladeshi President Hasina Wajed’s remark that Yunus had “spent years sucking the blood of the poor” echoes similar charges being made in neighboring India against companies and banks that sought to emulate Grameen.
It even insisted that it could imprison an American citizen, José Padilla, incommunicado for an indefinite period without criminal charges until, faced with the prospect of Supreme Court review, it suddenly pressed charges that had nothing to do with the allegations that had formed the basis for his detention.
They are not directly censored, but they operate under the chilling knowledge that they can be shut down on vague charges at any moment.
Indeed, reducing high money-transfer charges – currently averaging more than 8% globally – has been shown to facilitate remittances and increase migrants’ savings.
Such obstruction was one of the charges pending against Richard Nixon when he resigned, rather than face certain impeachment in the House and conviction by the Senate.
Consider a teaser loan, which initially charges low or even no interest, with much higher rates kicking in at a later date.
The prices of basic commodities and charges for electricity, heating, and other vital services will be reduced to their actual production costs.
Meanwhile, charges of corruption have been piling up.
In September, Turkish authorities arrested and deported Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink – the third foreign journalist to be detained on terrorism-related charges and expelled from the country this year.
Under Nigeria’s various dictatorships, for example, many journalists underwent a rite of passage that most prefer to forget: routine harassment, beatings, torture, frame-ups on spurious charges, and incongruously long prison sentences.
The ICC indicted Kony and four other LRA commanders in 2005 on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
And Thaksin himself was forced into exile, as criminal charges were filed against him.
In October 2013, the Yingluck government introduced an amnesty bill that would lift all criminal charges against him and overturn a conviction, enabling him to return home.
In Guatemala, the retrial of former head of state Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide has stalled.
Anwar’s bizarre trial and sentencing on charges of sodomy and abuse of power invigorated the reformasi movement, as growing anti-UMNO and anti-Mahathir sentiments took hold among Islamic-minded Malays.
Among other things, Berlusconi altered Italy’s political system in such a way as to prevent the left from ever gaining full power again, and to block any criminal charges that could be leveled against him.
And the bulk of trade that does not raise such concerns may have been better insulated from charges of “unfair trade.”
The 61-year-old Liu, a former literary critic and high-profile champion of human rights and non-violent resistance, spent the last eight years of his life behind bars on trumped-up charges of “subversion.”
In Arab eyes, European officials implicitly plead guilty to these charges by pointing to Europe’s complex multilateral politics and the European Union’s bureaucratic nature.
The best option is to build a carbon charge into existing fuel taxes and apply similar charges to coal, natural gas, and other petroleum products.
There have been simultaneous protests in the past, but usually against increases in rent or utility charges.
In February 2007, Wade was re-elected as Senegal’s president amid opposition charges that the election had not been free and fair.
Between issuing scurrilous charges of non-existent voter fraud, openly encouraging his fellow Republicans to engage in voter suppression, and inviting foreign powers to launch cyber attacks against his opponents, Trump has undermined the credibility of US elections.
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