Sentences with phrase «public trial in»

My husband, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born and raised in Syria, faced a public trial in 2002 while he was the victim of extraordinary rendition initiated by U.S. authorities with the complicity of Canadian law enforcement as well as Jordanian and Syrian authorities, official and de facto allies of the U.S. war on terror.
However, public trials in China are rare.

Not exact matches

The first trial involving a charge under the Canadian Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act was concluded this past summer, and resulted in a conviction.
At the opening of the trial in Rome, the U.S. investment bank the other defendants asked a three - judge panel at the Court of Accounts, which rules on abuses of public funds, to reject the case in an acknowledgement that the judges do not have jurisdiction, Marco Fratini, one of the judges, said.
«The benefits to staying in Boston are the normal benefits of keeping a trial near the scene of the crime: it empowers the aggrieved public to express itself through the jury verdict,» Re explained.
But he stopped short of declaring the song in the public domain, leaving open the possibility that others may hold the copyright and setting the stage for a trial.
In the case of malaria — which hits hardest in Africa — clinical trials must be conducted in countries with significantly constrained public health resources while meeting the universally high quality standards that clinical trials requirIn the case of malaria — which hits hardest in Africa — clinical trials must be conducted in countries with significantly constrained public health resources while meeting the universally high quality standards that clinical trials requirin Africa — clinical trials must be conducted in countries with significantly constrained public health resources while meeting the universally high quality standards that clinical trials requirin countries with significantly constrained public health resources while meeting the universally high quality standards that clinical trials require.
Once feted by billionaires, Levandowski now finds himself starring in a high - stakes public trial as his two former employers square off.
But most trials in China are closed to to the public, making it difficult for the media or human rights groups to investigate.
Bonifacio Ilagan, who was jailed and tortured during Marcos» martial - law period, has said Duterte's references to martial law could be a «trial balloon» in order to assess public opinion on amending the constitution to expand his ability to declare martial law.
The startup will collect data during the public trial to refine the software and improve vehicle routing efficiency, the booking process, and passenger experience ahead of a wider commercial launch that is expected to begin in 2018.
Paul Callan, a civil and criminal trial lawyer in New York, said the public outcry over Dao «s treatment would likely push the airline to a quick and generous settlement.
The Simpson trial set the stage for the Casey Anthony trial, the Oscar Pistorius trial, and any other recent case that played out in public (and on television) almost as much as it played out in the courtroom.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Like the voting machine companies, Internet voting services — mostly purveying their software in private or corporate elections — largely resist subjecting their work to public trial.
High - scoring residents are shown outside the public library and in residential communities and villages, which are already operating their own trial social credit systems.
Chief Deputy Public Defender Matt Gonzalez, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate and Judge Samuel Feng listen as a court clerk reads the verdict in Zarate's murder trial on November 30, 2017.
Canada Courtroom in tears at trial of Saskatchewan farmer accused of killing Colten Boushie, Toronto Star Trudeau says Canada is ready if Trump nixes NAFTA, CBC News Parents of man charged in Quebec City mosque shooting make first public statement, Canadian Press
Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.
Tokyo, May 4 (Jiji Press)-- Public prosecutors and private companies in Japan are making preparations for the introduction on June 1 of a plea - bargaining system in the country that may drastically change the way investigations, trials and lawyer activities are conducted.
The seven women and five men weighing the trial evidence had given no public sign of where they stood in their review of the evidence before they delivered the mixed verdict.
A public trial filled the newspapers in Canada and throughout the U.S., but Blackburn was eventually acquitted on a technicality.
Every day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.
The commonly prescribed arthritis drug Vioxx was withdrawn after it was linked with heart attacks and strokes, a drug trial which went horribly wrong left six men fighting for their lives in intensive care, hospitals were names and shamed for MRSA and Clostridium difficile deaths, and measles made a come back after public confidence in the MMR vaccine plummeted.
The success of this month's NASA - UTM TCL3 trials is further proof that strong cooperation between private and public industry players is essential to enabling safe high - scale drone operations and is already happening in the United States and worldwide.
Arbitration typically is less costly than going to trial, but more significantly those disputes are not hashed out in a public setting.
VICTORIA: New Democrat leader Carole James is asking the B.C. Liberals to address public concerns they used $ 6 million in taxpayer dollars to secure a guilty plea to sweep the B.C. Rail corruption trial under the rug.
Brossard's would - be assassins have been hired by the big fish who have been his longtime protectors and patrons, themselves guilty of «crimes against humanity» under Vichy, who fear that Brossard's arrest and trial will result in a public outcry over their own cases.
Even before Yigal Amir was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, a related trial had already been concluded in the court of public opinion.
Torture and public trials resulted in burnings at the stake of poor and working - class women viewed as symbols of rebellion against the ruling church.
When the Nazi officials on trial at Nuremberg argued in their defense that they had merely obeyed the laws of the state, public opinion quickly agreed that there ought to be a law proscribing such crimes against humanity.
But the fundamentalists lost the battle for public opinion during the «Scopes Monkey Trial» in 1925.
The most explicit statement of these limitations is in the Constitution's first ten amendments — the Bill of Rights — which guarantee freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, the right to bear arms, protection against the obligatory quartering of soldiers, security from unwarranted search and seizure, the right to a grand jury, protection against double jeopardy and self - incrimination, the right of due process, just compensation for private property taken for public use, and speedy public trial by jury without excessive fines or bail.
Inquisition, witch trials, laws against public office, teaching fiction as fact in public schools, etc... we can certainly handle what we're dealing with now, but we won't let it get out of hand ever again!
States have laws on the books that deny atheists the ability to be witnesses in trials, Herb Silverman had to fight for 3 years in South Carolina to be a Notary Public because he was an atheist.
I think a trial would have hurt him more than a settlement because it would keep this matter in the public for his congregation who simply would not have been able to ignore it.
This line of separation has become less acute than it was fifty years ago when the famous Dayton trial over the right to teach evolution in the public schools took place, and in the same year of 1925 Harry Emerson Fosdick had to leave the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City because of his theological views.
At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilising terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station.
the government should move immediately to suspend the church's tax exempt status until they cough up every single pedophile priest — and every bishop or grand poobah or whatever they call the guys who consistently protect these priests — so they can face a very public trial and hard time in federal prison, where they can have all the man - on - man they want.
At three key junctures in Jesus» ordeal he and his mother come face - to - face: at the Sanhedrin trial, at the public flogging and after Jesus falls on the road to Golgotha.
According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, informative, Pulitzer Prize - winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly violating a state law restricting the teaching of evolution in the public schools need not have resulted in the now legendary high - pitched standoff between the atheistic radical Clarence Darrow and the robustly religious populist William Jennings Bryan.
Public outrage is being shown in many areas of the nation but the fanfares for or against the T vs. G trial is being socially weighed - in and national governances are taking notice in order to see just how fractured socialism is...
His opposition to the war reached its public climax in his famous trial, along with several other defendants, for turning in draft cards at a worship service at Arlington Street Church in Boston.
The SixthAmendment provides: «In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury.»
But sometimes a group of marketers confronts the indifference of the public and finds something that charms, differentiates and positions their restaurant in a way that demands a second chance from rejecters and initial trial from those who've never been.
I am oblivious to all the trials and tribulations of taking public railways in this area.
In a public dialogue held by the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) last August, medical doctors warned that there are not enough data presented to establish safety of Golden Rice to human health thus warranting the disapproval of human feed trials.
In a public dialogue on Golden Rice held by the National Anti-Poverty Commission or NAPC last August, medical doctors has warned that there are not enough data presented to establish safety of Golden Rice to human health thus warranting the discontinuation of human feed trials.
In Philippines, the Golden Rice issue was stirred anew with the renewed application for field trial and direct use last February 2017 despite the absence of public dialogue.
In place of the zero waste program the government proposed street level recycling bins in public areas and an organic waste recycling triaIn place of the zero waste program the government proposed street level recycling bins in public areas and an organic waste recycling triain public areas and an organic waste recycling trial.
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