Sentences with phrase «under house arrest in»

Others examine major well - known figures, from stock characters of 1960s Modernism including Minimalist Sol LeWitt and ardent feminist Carolee Schneemann to the international figure Ai Weiwei and his fiercely restrained living conditions under house arrest in Beijing (whose work is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum).
The Chinese artist was then under house arrest in Beijing but toured the the space to plan the installation through a specially created 3D computer model.
We also called the politically charged decision to have both Jafar Panahi and Kirill Serebrennikov in the lineup, two blacklisted filmmakers currently under house arrest in their home countries and unlikely to attend the festival.
This Is Not a Film (directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 11), shot while Panahi was under house arrest in his Tehran apartment, is a tantalizing hybrid of documentary self - portrait and contemplative fiction, at once an act of rebellion and a singular example of film as legal loophole: Panahi was effectively telling his persecutors, «You never specified that I couldn't make a film like this, because you never could have anticipated me making it.»
The traditional climbing of the steps was a political moment for the cast and producer of the Russian film Leto (Summer), in competition at the 71st Cannes Film Festival: its director, Kirill Serebrennikov, has been under house arrest in Russia since August of last year, on charges of corruption.
As a condition of being released on bail before trial, he was ordered kept under house arrest in his luxury penthouse at The Tower, an exclusive high - rise located on Central Park West.
Ben Stiller is starring as the overworked manager of a luxury tower building, who, along with his staff, plots to get financial revenge on the crooked Wall Street fat cat (Alda) who swindled them out of their life savings with a Ponzi scheme, and now happens to be under house arrest in their building with his ill - gotten gains.
After suffering a mild stroke, Archie feels like he is under house arrest in his son's home.
SOLLERS POINT tells the story of Keith (McCaul Lombardi), a twenty - four - year - old newly released from prison and living with his father (Jim Belushi) under house arrest in Baltimore.
It is about a Russian aristocrat under house arrest in Moscow after the Bolsheviks come to power and how he comes to terms with his new situation.
No evaluation was made, even that autumn, after Macchiarini was placed under house arrest in Italy for reasons that, although unclear, are related to healthcare.»
Under house arrest in his lavish «Blue Roof» compound, Mugabe has refused to stand down even as he has watched his support from party, security services and people evaporate in less than three days.
She, a former denizen of Oxford, was put under house arrest in 1989 and kept in custody virtually ever since.
Galileo spent the last eight years of his life under house arrest in his villa outside of Florence.
Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest in Burma for 15 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.

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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.
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.
A local priest was also placed under house arrest and a notary public was suspended for alleged involvement in the money - laundering plot.
Paul is not living in optimum circumstances in Rome; he's under a form of house arrest.
Her work as a reformer and an advocate for democracy in the country has been a decades - long struggle that included 15 years of house arrest under the military junta government.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the recording, Temer allegedly agrees to buy the silence of Eduardo Cunha, the powerful former speaker of House — now under arrest on corruption charges — who is widely believed to possess incriminating information on much of the political elite.
That move was seen as an attempt to position Grace Mugabe to continue a Mugabe dynasty of power - This prompted the military to step in and place Mr. Mugabe under house arrest, in events that stopped short of an outright coup de tat.
The distancing from Glasman is becoming an increasingly wise choice from Miliband, as Glasman is currently under «house arrest» in the Lords after a string of controversial outbursts, which would be somewhat damaging to Ed's Prime Ministerial image.
As soon as it was clear that Ms Suu Kyi's party had won the election polls in 1990, the junta put her under house arrest off - and - on until 2010.
Stating that almost all his predictions for 2016 had come to pass, Fayose alleged that there were plans by the Federal Government to place Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State under house arrest on Thursday — two days before the legislative rerun elections in the state.
According to ASP Mohammed Tanko, Ashanti Regional PRO of the police, Okomfo Yaw Appiah was not put under house arrest, but was being held in protective custody.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court also in Abuja had granted the ex-NSA bail on November 3 in the charges of unlawful possession of firearms but the bail was on November 4 scuttled by the SSS who instead of obeying court order laid siege on his Asokoro Residence and placed him under house arrest.
«Let us see what happens in terms of the review, but I very firmly believe that the values we have in this country of a fair trial, you should know what you're accused of, you shouldn't be locked up or put under house arrest.
In 2007, Hispanic lawmakers saw a crisis brewing on eastern Long Island: Under the direction of the Suffolk County executive, Steve Levy, the police were raiding rooming houses full of immigrants and arresting drivers, many of them Hispanic, who lacked licenses or identification.
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Since his conviction, the Brigadier General, who is the son of one of Nigeria's most prominent human rights defenders, Beko Ransome - Kuti, had remained under house arrest at an army barracks in Abuja.
He was then returned to his home and placed under house arrest, unable to travel or to engage in normal professional or personal activities.»
They placed him under house arrest until his death in 1642, the same year Isaac Newton was born.
It's understood with a live - in arrangement that your Sugar Baby should be available and considerate of your personal schedule, but again, she's not under house - arrest and needs to have her own life.
In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors.
One day after her shift waiting tables at a diner, Dee comes home to find that police have raided her housing complex and that she's under arrest for distributing drugs in a school zone.
(In English and Armenian with subtitles) The Lady (R for violence and bloody images) Michelle Yeoh stars in the title role of this biopic about Nobel Peace Prize - winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the political prisoner recently - freed by the Burmese government after being kept under house arrest for 15 yearIn English and Armenian with subtitles) The Lady (R for violence and bloody images) Michelle Yeoh stars in the title role of this biopic about Nobel Peace Prize - winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the political prisoner recently - freed by the Burmese government after being kept under house arrest for 15 yearin the title role of this biopic about Nobel Peace Prize - winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the political prisoner recently - freed by the Burmese government after being kept under house arrest for 15 years.
Jane Fonda revealed herself to be the new Houdini; regaling the incredible story of how, when arrested in 1970 under orders from the White House, she discovered she was able to escape from handcuffs thanks to her double - jointed hands.
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