Results for "trial in absentia"
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Africa
Thomas Sankara: Prosecutors seek 30 years for Compaore in murder trial
The court was asked on Tuesday to find him guilty in absentia of an “attack on state security”, “concealment of a corpse” and “complicity in a murder”.
Aljazeera
Courts
In absentia or not: Court to decide in former MASLOC boss case Feb 24
The presiding judge has thus directed the parties to file their Supplementary affidavits.
DL News
Crime
Two jailed 10 years each in absentia for GHC1,700,000 fraud
Prince Kyei Bennett and Samuel Nutsugah collected the amount under the pretext of selling to the complainant, Eric Coffie, a schnapps bottle containing mercury.
GNA
Crime
Two teachers jailed 6 years each for forging Judicial Service receipt
Lordfred Heward Mills, the main architect of the crime was jailed in absentia while Lawrence Ansu Asante, the second accused person, was escorted by the police to jail.
GNA
Europe
Romanian court jails Wiz Khalifa in absentia over on-stage cannabis use
The artist, whose real name is Thomaz Cameron Jibril, admitted to lighting a joint while performing at the Beach, Please! festival in Costinești in July 2024.
DL News
Africa
Kabila sentenced to death in absentia over war crimes, treason
The charges stem from allegations that Kabila secretly supported the M23 rebel group, blamed for mass killings, torture, sexual violence, and the takeover of vast areas in eastern DRC.
DL News
Africa
Tunisian opposition leader sentenced to 14 years
The verdict, handed down on Tuesday, is part of a broader case in which 18 politicians and officials were convicted of “conspiring against state security.”
DL News
Crime
EOCO seeks public assistance to arrest Lebanese convicted for fraud
The convict, Naji Khalil, who was tried in absentia because he jumped bail, was sentenced to five years imprisonment on 22nd June 2022.
DL News
Courts
Trial of former MASLOC boss adjourned to April 20
Sedinam Tamakloe and Daniel Axim, a former Operations Officer of MASLCO are facing trial for allegedly stealing and causing financial loss to the state to the tune of GHC93 million.
DL News
US
Meet Allison Greenfield, the law clerk driving Trump bonkers at his fraud trial
Donald Trump and his lawyers have been throwing a fit about Justice Arthur Engoron's clerk. The clerk, Allison Greenfield, an experienced lawyer, once ran to become a judge herself. Trump's attacks — now banned under a gag order — led to an...
Business Insider
Africa
Trial over murder of ‘Africa’s Che Guevara’ opens in Burkina Faso
The former fighter pilot was one of the first African leaders to raise awareness about the growing AIDS epidemic. He publicly denounced the World Bank’s structural adjustment programmes and banned female circumcision and polygamy.
DL News
Courts
A-G seeks stay of Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu’s acquittal pending Supreme Court appeal
The application was filed on Thursday, July 30, 2026, shortly after a three-member panel of the Court of Appeal unanimously quashed Madam Tamakloe-Attionu’s conviction and 10-year prison sentence.
DL News
Africa
Treason trial of former DR Congo President Kabila begins
Kabila, who ruled DR Congo for nearly two decades, faces a string of serious charges—including treason, murder, rape, torture, and leading an insurrection—over his alleged ties to the M23 rebel group, which controls vast mineral-rich territ...
DL News
Business
Contract Act amendment to prohibit compound interests payable by state-AG
According to him, The Contracts (Amendment) Act 2023 (Act 1114), which was sponsored by his outfit, was informed by observations made by him in the several instances
DL News
Courts
Full Judgment: Why Court of Appeal acquitted and discharged Ex-MASLOC CEO of the 10-year jail sentence
The appellate court held that the prosecution failed to prove the charges against her beyond reasonable doubt. In its 94-page judgment, the court also faulted the trial judge’s approach to the case, holding that the presumption of innocence...
DL News
Africa
Convicted ex-Chadian leader Hissène Habré dies
One of the most notorious detention centres in the capital N’Djamena was a converted swimming pool.
DL News