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By raising the bar for defamation charges, that decision ensures that American journalists can hold public officials accountable.
The US and those representing it have been guilty of hubris (the US may often be the indispensable nation, but it would be better if others pointed this out), and examples of inconsistency between America’s practices and its principles understandably provoke charges of hypocrisy.
But those charges seem odd coming from countries with weak rule of law and heavy Internet censorship.
But when the balance due was still outstanding in 1963 (with interest charges piling up), the IMF’s rules required its managing director to take action that would prohibit further use of the Fund’s resources.
Nonetheless, over the next five years, the Castro government gradually repaid the full amount due, including all interest charges.
But Italian prosecutors have now requested a trial for several senior Eni executives – including the current CEO, Claudio Descalzi, and his predecessor – as well as Etete and several others; and they are pursuing separate charges against four senior Shell executives.
An arrest warrant has now been issued against the former finance minister, also a Sunni, on similar charges.
Too Much InformationCANBERRA – As a British court weighs whether Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden, and American prosecutors weigh the criminal charges they will file against Private Bradley Manning, the alleged major source for the disclosures by Assange’s WikiLeaks, global debate continues on whether such revelations do more good than harm.
Biljana Plavsic, professor of biology and a leader of Bosnia’s Serbs, recently appeared before the Hague Tribunal to face charges of genocide.
In 2004, she was arrested and, in 2006, sentenced to six and a half years on embezzlement and tax fraud charges.
Arrested in 2003, they were sentenced in 2005 to eight years in prison on charges of tax fraud.
Sichuan province’s deputy party secretary, Li Chuncheng – known as “Li Chaicheng,” or “Li destroys the city” – was recently arrested on corruption charges for his brazen expropriation of farmers.
Camp As-Sayliyah – another facility for which Qatar charges no rent – serves as the US Central Command’s forward headquarters.
But energy-intensive industries usually benefit from exemptions on carbon charges.
Consider the following charges:Currency manipulation.
Indeed, one could argue that it is the American public that is being manipulated by the erroneous charges leveled at China.
More than 3,000 protesters face criminal charges, simply for exercising their democratic rights.
Any political deal significantly before the debt-ceiling deadline would have exposed politicians to charges of betrayal from their constituents.
While Trump cannot be indicted on criminal charges while president, he can be prosecuted for illegal behavior after he leaves office.
In one case, the prosecutor’s office brought criminal charges against me as editor-in-chief: I was accused of slandering an Armenian political figure and of insulting a state official.
Investigations lasted several months, before pressure from international organizations and public opinion forced the prosecutor to drop the charges.
They do not seem concerned that the charges are unfair; rather, they appear to be demonstrating solidarity with a fellow head of state.
One can only guess whether some of those joining this effort are motivated by concern that they themselves may some day face charges like those leveled at Bashir by the ICC judges.
The charges against him have a powerful stigmatizing effect.
Even if Bashir’s fellow heads of state succeed in their effort to persuade the United Nations Security Council to defer prosecution – which is highly unlikely – the charges will continue to hang over Bashir’s head unless and until he stands trial.
He won an overwhelming victory in the July 2007 election and faces little serious opposition, particularly as the Turkish military’s influence has been weakened by charges that some high-ranking officers were involved in plots to destabilize the government.
While some of the charges appear to be based on flimsy evidence, they have made the General Staff more hesitant to challenge the prime minister.
As if all this weren’t enough, the Trump White House was suddenly hit with a wave of wife-beating charges.
Uganda is securing investors for a new oil refinery and is spearheading the development of regional infrastructure for information and communications technology, which will lead to the elimination of cellular roaming charges among our countries.
Consider the harsh treatment of the gadfly critic Liu Xiaobao, sentenced to 11 years in prison on trumped-up charges of “subversion” for launching an Internet petition drive championing civil liberties.
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