Sentences with phrase «under house arrest on»

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party leader had been under heavy police guard since he was placed under house arrest on Saturday, shortly before the election results were announced.

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.

Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an associate are under house arrest on charges including conspiracy to launder money, linked to the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into allegations that the campaign colluded with Russia.

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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.

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.

[60] On the following day this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life»

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Justice Ademola on Friday lambasted the Department of State Security Services (DSS) over its refusal to allow former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki travel to the United Kingdom for medical treatment and putting him under house arrest.

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.

A military takeover, launched on November 15, placed Mugabe under house arrest — he is largely confined to his Blue Roof residence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Now, Maguire returns with the final installment in his transformative work, a thrilling and compulsively readable saga in which the fate of Oz is decided at last... Once peaceful and prosperous, the spectacular Land of Oz is knotted with social unrest: The Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law.

William Ankomah of Brampton was sentenced to just under two years house arrest and fined $ 50,000 for overstating charitable donation receipts from various charities on his clients» income tax returns.

Hershman Leeson's documentary centers on the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera, who, in late 2014, in the weeks following Raul Castro's and Barack Obama's public commitments to renew diplomatic ties between Cuba and the US, was repeatedly questioned and placed under house arrest by the Castro government for staging a «treasonous» art performance in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution.

The back - radiation explanation of the greenhouse effect that people used to prefer until recently is less satisfactory because it has the kinds of problems I pointed out 16 months ago in an article on this blog, which was received at the time with only slightly more enthusiasm than Galileo's heliocentric account of planetary motions: at least no one suggested I be placed under house arrest for it!

After serving a year in jail, Pistorius was released on parole in line with South African procedure and has been living under house arrest at his uncle's mansion since October last year.

But there is also the fact that the Chinese authorities felt that they could both officially complain to other governments about the awarding of the prize and the subsequent restrictions on other lawyers in China some of whom have been put under house arrest or have not been allowed to travel either internally or out of the country.

The ICJ's commissioner and UN special rapporteur on religious intolerance, Asma Jahangir, is under house arrest.

Supervised two AWOL Soldiers under house arrest, one on suicide watch, balanced extreme sympathy and maintained discipline and order within the entire unit.