Sentences with phrase «in absentia»

He had been convicted in absentia of more than a dozen murders as well as of being part of the Mafia's leadership who ordered the 1992 bombings that, in separate attacks, killed Sicily's top two anti-Mafia investigators, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

Several Hezbollah members are being tried in absentia for the killing by a U.N. - backed tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.

First of all, the national court wanted to know if the optional ground for refusal in case of a conviction in absentia as laid down in the new Article 4a (1) FD EAW precludes the Executing State from making the surrender conditional on the right of a retrial in the Issuing State, if deemed necessary by the Executing State, similar to what used to be possible on the basis of Article 5 (1) FD EAW 2002.

[par.113] The Framework Decision is meant to ensure the execution of European arrest warrants rendered in absentia as well as to guarantee the adequate protection of fundamental rights.

He was convicted in absentia of embezzlement in Kazakhstan and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

With trials in absentia prohibited under Chilean law, criminal charges against Barrientos remain stayed, halting the completion of legal prosecution against him.

Mahdi will receive his award in absentia as he continues to be detained by the Bahraini authorities for his trade union activities.

I had a great sense of justice and injustice — my father was sentenced to death in absentia in Iraq and had all his assets sequestered by the Ba'athist Regime at the time.

AAAS presented Kokabee with the 2014 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award in absentia «in recognition of his willingness to endure imprisonment rather than apply his scientific expertise for destructive purposes and for his efforts to provide hope and education to fellow prisoners,» said Alan Leshner, then AAAS CEO and executive publisher of Science in a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei requesting Kokabee's release.

[41][42] In May 2012, the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.

The former minister, who has been charged for alleged fraud albeit in absentia, said the EFCC had no evidence against him and that was why operatives were still searching for evidence over four months after charging him.

This year's honorees included Rep. Charles B. Rangel, whose award was accepted by Assembly Member Keith Wright in absentia; Davon Lomax, Political Director for DC 9 of the International Union of Painters & Allied Trades; and the newly - elected Bronx District Attorney, Darcel D. Clark.

Cuomo, who indicated he'd back the party's goals of helping Democrats take back the State Senate and allowing localities to raise the minimum wage, downplayed the boos and heckling he received in absentia this weekend at the convention of the Working Families Party, whose union and progressive members have long grumbled about Cuomo's fiscally conservative policies and working relationship with Republicans.

Joseph V. Melillo, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) executive producer, delivered the graduate ceremony commencement address on behalf of Karen Brooks Hopkins, president of BAM, who received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in absentia.

The curator refers to the image as the «portrait in absentia of a charismatic person [and] an allegory of an extraordinary way of life.»

During those years, he participated in hundreds of exhibitions in absentia.

Artist Andrea Fraser, known for her piece Untitled where she had sex with a collector in order to speak about inequity in the art world, is involved, only in absentia, since she refuses to exhibit in NYC until the city adopts resale rights.

The result of this was that he was sentenced in absentia to ten years imprisonment for bankruptcy fraud by an Italian Court.

He argued that his surrender to the Italian authorities would infringe his right to fair trial enshrined in Article 24 (2) of the Spanish Constitution, because he had been convicted for a very serious offence in absentia without him having the possibility of challenging his conviction.

In 2010, three Google executives were convicted in absentia in Italy for allowing the posting of a YouTube video that showed a disabled teenager being bullied.

Sentra SE - R: Hoping to jump on the street - racer bandwagon, Nissan will resurrect the SE - R model of the Sentra after seven years in absentia.

The Young Turk conspirators and other leading figures of the wartime Ottoman government were indicted for their crimes at the end of the war, but the main culprits fled the country and were found guilt of capital crimes in absentia.

Fourth, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) also came though on September 1, 2015 and laid a charge in absentia against a Syrian intelligence officer accused of torturing Maher Arar.

Under the Obama administration, the government indicted in absentia five Chinese military officers for engaging in commercial espionage.

Thus are those women righteous and devout, and protective in absentia over what Allahas deemed to be secure.

Staying home and not voting is a vote for Obama in absentia.

Sentenced to death in absentia after the war, Touvier» thanks to a network of sympathizers in the Church, and with the complicity of high - placed government officials» eluded capture until 1989.

Frequently effigies were burned for those condemned in absentia.

Therefore, in absentia Peter initiated the gentile mission in Antioch so that the infant church in Antioch was composed of both Jews and gentiles.

Not breast - feeding, per se, but releasing breast milk for baby in absentia.

The closest to his «appearance» was some lawyers arguing his case in absentia.

Some District leaders make a positive difference in their communities, or become labor leaders, even a steam valve for the entire neighborhood, while others don't even seem to live in their district, or are appointed in absentia.

Asked about the attacks he had weathered in absentia, the Manhattan lawmaker responded by saying he took this as a sign he's now the frontrunner.

Methinks the retired educator might have been the 12th (and deciding) vote for a Republican chairman, even though recently enacted county law allows legislators to vote in absentia.

Seats were left empty for both, who received standing ovations in absentia.

With her sister recently back in her life after a stint in recap of the narcotic variety, clues to where he might have gone begin to reveal themselves as she puts the final touches on paperwork declaring him dead in absentia.

In Joachim Trier's recent Louder Than Bombs, she was a war photographer who dominated the drama in absentia, a ghostly presence in a fractured family.

While his 2000 in absentia indictment and 2008 acquittal were centered around remarks that appeared to support an Islamic state, Gülen claims they were taken out of context.

One girl, a recent graduate, received a trophy in absentia, for 12.

Parenting can not be accomplished in absentia.

To add to the irony, the prize eventually went to an artist in absentia, who attended only virtually because of his own last - minute visa problems.

This «chicanery in absentia» relies in part on horror vacui, or the aversion of empty space.

The work, included in the Marieluise Hessel Collection but not present in the exhibition, serves as a marker in absentia of the humor and futility of attempting to assemble six disparate exhibitions under a common theme.

«The Barragán - Sandback pairing gives us a unique and very refined example of that respectful dialogue in absentia: on the one hand, both practitioners are now no longer with us; on the other, their ideas and creativity are still very much present, vital, and forceful.

Much of her work leads nowhere, so to speak, in that Sosnowska perpetually captures and explores the in - between: liminal, transitory, unstable, and disorienting constructions that are as much about presence as the gaps or spaces they create in absentia.