Tag: absentia
Opponent Amira Bouraoui receives ten years in prison in absentia for “illegal exit from the territory”
A heavy sanction, pronounced in his absence. The Constantine court on Tuesday sentenced Franco-Algerian opponent Amira Bouraoui to 10 years in prison, and journalist Mustapha Bendjama, accused of having helped…
After TV protest: Russian journalist sentenced in absentia
After TV protest Russian journalist sentenced in absentia Marina Ovsjannikova during an interview with the German Press Agency dpa in June 2022. Photo © Annette Riedl/dpa Eight and a half…
Opponent Svetlana Tikhanovskaya sentenced to 15 years in prison in absentia
Figure of the opposition to President Alexander Lukashenko, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was sentenced in absentia to fifteen years in prison on Monday by a Belarusian court. According to the state news…
A former world swimming champion, opposed to Lukashenko, sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison
A former great Belarusian swimmer has just been found guilty by a court in Minsk. Aliaksandra Herasimenia has indeed been sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison in Belarus…
Rachid Kassim, the bloodthirsty ghost of Daesh, tried in absentia in court
It is a ghost that is about to judge, once again, the specially constituted court of assizes. An evil spirit whose shadow hangs over many files of Islamist attacks committed…
Three men sentenced to life in absentia
A Dutch court on Thursday sentenced three men to life in absentia for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, amid rising tensions over the Russian…