Sentences with phrase «mugabe under house arrest»

So the army walked in [to our dig site], and basically put us under house arrest while they were sorting out the permits and trying to figure out what went on.

She did an amazing job wooing advertisers back once she was under house arrest.

Instead, she went off to Alderson, in West Virginia, and did her five months there, and then another five months under house arrest.

Mr. Navalny, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Moscow in 2013, has been under house arrest since February.

Economics minister Alexei Ulyukayev, a wisecracking liberal who locked horns with state oil colossus Rosneft, was arrested last autumn on shaky - looking graft charges and remains under house arrest.

A local priest was also placed under house arrest and a notary public was suspended for alleged involvement in the money - laundering plot.

Fresh concerns are being raised over the welfare of Eritrea's Tewahdo Orthodox Church leader, who has been living effectively under house arrest for more than ten years.

The Vatican said that Wesolowski suffers from an unnamed but medically documented health condition, and will be placed under house arrest in Vatican City, which is a sovereign state.

Galileo spent the rest of his life at his home at Arcetri, under house arrest with the archbishop of Siena.

Immigration officials took away his passport and he was later put under house arrest.

Isn't this the same religious group that put Galileo under house arrest for having the audacity to say that the earth goes around the sun?

From Nabi - Saleb we drove back down to Ramallah, where we went to the home of Raymonda Tawil, an outspoken Palestinian nationalist recently put under house arrest for two weeks by Israeli authorities for «inciting actions against the occupation.»

The proconsul ordered that Cyprian be placed under house arrest that night at the home of one of his staff officers and fixed date of trial for morrow.

My daughters and I were held under house arrest for almost a month.

(With «earth» again understood as comprehensive of nature and society together as a single, complex community that is full of life but «under house arrest,» to recall the graphic description of Boutros Boutros - Ghali at the Earth Summit of 1992).

A number of outstanding scientists, including the Russian physicist Kapitsa who was for years kept under house arrest by Stalin, have refused to work on anything connected with atomic weapons.

Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest in Burma for 15 years.

Galileo would disagree, the church put him under house arrest for the rest of his life on biblical assessment.

jay: «Galileo would disagree, the church put him under house arrest for the rest of his life on biblical assessment.»

Your kind put him under house arrest for how long for stating the truth based on scientific observation.

In addition, many other non-violent dissidents were rounded up or placed under house arrest, to prevent them from attending the pope's open - air Mass..

Even the Roman Catholic Pope placed Galileo under house arrest because he said the earth revolved around the sun, contrary to Catholic beliefs.

It was very nice of them however, to place Galileo under house arrest.

You would have been one of those simpletons who were all for putting Galileo under house arrest for daring to state that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Galileo spent the last eight years of his life under house arrest in his villa outside of Florence.

In Context: The Apostle Paul is under house arrest awaiting his trial, where he may possibly be put to death for preaching the resurrection of Jesus.

There are grave concerns for the wellbeing of an elderly Orthodox Church leader in Eritrea held under house arrest for ten years.

It is not known where he is being held under house arrest.

He has been under house arrest since January 2007, after being removed from office, in violation of canon law, for repeatedly objecting to government interference in ecclesiastical affairs.

Abedini was placed under house arrest before being imprisoned for three - and - a-half years in Iran for participating in Christian home churches in 2012.

Perhaps their difference of style can be attributed to Paul's changed circumstances under house arrest.

Published on her website, goop, the dessert consists of chocolate wafers and whipped cream — and brings to mind 73 - year - old Stewart's 2004 stint behind bars (and then under house arrest) for insider trading.

Aung San Suu Kyi was elected as leader in 1990, however the military didn't like that and put her under house arrest for 21 years.

At 14, after a run - in with the law, he was put under house arrest.

He was rooted to his sofa, under house arrest, in a kind of extravagant prison: Sing Sing with bling - bling.

And so he was placed under house arrest.

Just do to him what Zimbabwe did to mugabe and put him under house arrest, this is the only way Arsenal will experience freedom???

Grosics himself was arrested later that year on charges of treason, placed under house arrest and barred from playing for 13 months.

He remains behind bars, with other leading directors placed under house arrest.

We were inspired to make the film by the injustice happening to Anna's home birth midwife, Agnes Gereb, who had been imprisoned and at the time of filming was under house arrest and facing multiple criminal charges (and even today, four years later, Agnes is still facing multiple charges).

At least 24 climate activists were put under house arrest, on the suspicion of preparing to attend the march.

Because of her efforts to bring democracy to military - ruled Burma, Suu Kyi spent most of the last 20 years in detention or under house arrest.

Mugabe has been under house arrest and key allies of his wife, Grace, removed from power since the military took charge last week.

She, a former denizen of Oxford, was put under house arrest in 1989 and kept in custody virtually ever since.

The election was won by the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was placed under house arrest and not permitted to become prime minister.

«We must always be sceptical and questioning, but as we've discussed I think it is right to suspend the sanctions there are against Burma,» he told Ms Suu Kyi outside the lakeside villa where she was held under house arrest for many years.

After the announcement that Fru Ndi had won, he was quickly placed under house arrest.

Huhne and Pryce's good behaviour means they are being released halfway through that four - month period, but they will have to remain under electronic curfew which leaves them effectively under house arrest.

The 93 - year - old President was during the week chased out of office by the country's military arm and currently under house arrest.

He urged Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate who spent years under house arrest for her pro-democracy activism, «to speak out for justice, human rights and the unity of your people».