However , Badreddine had also been accused of leading a cell that was allegedly responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri on the Beirut waterfront in February 2005 . He was indicted in 2011 by the special tribunal for Lebanon , an international court established in the Hague , in connection with the massive 2005 bombing , which led Syrian leader Bashar al - Assad to withdraw his forces from Lebanon in the face of a civic uprising . Badreddine and four other alleged members of Hezbollah remain on trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing in absentia at the Hague . Prosecutors have offered one of the few publicly available glimpses of the shadowy Hezbollah operative , describing him as the “ apex ” of the cell that allegedly killed Hariri , and a figure akin to an “ untraceable ghost ” who assumed multiple identities . ' Nobody wants to stay in Lebanon .

" Gaddafi talked about it with Putin , proposing his son as a future son - in - law , but the Russian President was taken aback and said his daughter did not know Saif al - Islam , " al - Houni said . Gaddafi was ousted and killed in a NATO - back revolt in 2011 . Saif al - Islam was in July sentenced to death by a court in Tripoli in a mass trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.na of former regime figures widely criticised by human rights groups . Saif al - Islam has been in custody in the Libyan mountain town of Zintan since he was caught trying to flee Libya in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution . The militia holding him has refused to hand him over .

Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng ( left ) , Bill Clinton ( center ) , Hillary Clinton ( right ) Along with UN President Ashe and Chinese billionaire Seng being indicted for being a part of this massive bribery scheme to enrich the Clinton ’s and fuel Hillary ’s presidential run , this report notes , Francis Lorenzo , the ambassador to the UN for the Dominican Republic , and the top two executives for the Global Sustainability Foundation ( GSF ) , Sheri Yan and Heidi Hong Piao , were , also , charged , all of whom had reached plea deals in exchange for their testimony against the Clinton ’s and Seng — has had , likewise , UN President Ashe done just prior to his death . Grimly to note too , this report continues , is that a “ powerful indictor ” that UN President Ashe was being targeted for death revealed itself this past January ( 2016 ) when Chinese billionaire Seng ( currently under house arrest in his New York City penthouse ) suddenly dropped his bid for a speedy trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing — and which SVR analysts in this report attribute to his being given “ assurances / guarantees ” by the Clinton ’s that once Hillary gained the US presidency he would pardoned . And in a “ power move ” perfected by both the Bush and Clinton Crime families , this report says , within 7 hours of UN President Ashe being reported dead , top Bush family warhawk Brent Scowcroft declared he was throwing his Republican Party allegiance behind Hillary Clinton , and not his own parties nominee Donald Trump . Most important to be noted about these events , this report continues , are that they are occurring in a Western government atmosphere where the rulers are now openly rebelling against their own citizens — and as best exampled by German President Joachim Gauck actually stating this past week that “ the elites are not the problem , the populations are the problem ” .

Two Romanian businessmen and an Italian politician got caught trying to sell rocket launchers and AK-47s to Colombian terrorists . But one now claims he was really just helping the CIA . A wacky tale is playing out in a federal courtroom in New York City , where a Romanian security consultant is on trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing for an illegal $ 17 million weapons deal . In 2014 , Virgil Flaviu Georgescu got caught in a federal sting operation . He was brokering a deal that involved selling machine guns and rocket launchers to the Communist guerrilla fighters of FARC , the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia .

1/10 China Escalating crackdown against human rights activists including mass arrests of lawyers and a series of sweeping laws in the name of ‘ national security’ . Getty Images 2/10 Egypt The arrest of thousands , including peaceful critics , in a ruthless crackdown in the name of national security , the prolonged detention of hundreds without charge or trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing and the sentencing of hundreds of others to death . Getty Images 3/10 Gambia Torture , enforced disappearances and the criminalisation of LGBTI people ; and utter refusal to co - operate with the UN and regional human rights mechanisms on issues including freedom of expression , enforced disappearance and the death penalty .

The institute – founded by her late father and currently directed by her mother – is backed by the Muslim World League , an Islamic organization in the Saudi holy city of Mecca that was founded by Muslim Brotherhood leaders . The 2002 Saudi manifesto shows that “ Muslim Minority Affairs ” – the mobilizing of Muslim communities in the U.S. to spread Islam instead of assimilating into the population – is a key strategy in an ongoing effort to establish Islamic rule in America and a global Shariah , or Islamic law , “ in our modern times . ” WND reported Abedin also was a member of the executive board of the Muslim Student Association , which was identified as a Muslim Brotherhood front group in a 1991 document introduced into evidence during the terror - financing trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing of the Texas - based Holy Land Foundation . At her father ’s Saudi - financed Islamic think tank , WND reported , Abedin worked alongside Abdullah Omar Naseef , who is accused of financing al - Qaida fronts . Naseef is deeply connected to the Abedin family .

More than 35 Somali refugees have also left the U.S. to join foreign terrorist organizations including al - Shabab and ISIS . Two Iraqi refugees were charged and convicted in 2011 of providing material support to al - Qaida . “ So in the run - up to that Kurbanov trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing she ( Olson ) was wanting to make sure there was no backlash against Muslims , ” Corcoran observed , even as more United Nations - selected refugees from Shariah - compliant Muslim countries were being planted in U.S. cities and towns . They are being resettled in more than 190 cities from Syria , Somalia , Afghanistan , Burma , Bosnia , Uzbekistan and Iraq as part of the federal government ’s refugee resettlement program . That program has been operating in its current form since 1980 and has enjoyed the support of every president since Ronald Reagan , who resettled several thousand Muslim refugees from Afghanistan who he called “ freedom fighters ” because they were fighting the Soviets .

“ Hillary for prison ! She deserves to be in stripes , ” Pat Smith , the mother of one of the Benghazi victims , declared from the podium . Chris Christie , in his Star Chamber presentation to the convention Tuesday night , held a mock trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing to “ hold Hillary Rodham Clinton accountable . ” “ Lock her up ! ” the delegates chanted . “ We ’re getting there , ” Christie replied .

Gen. Mohammad al - Dahabi , who ran the service from 2005 to 2008 , was later convicted of stealing millions of dollars that G.I.D. officers had seized from Iraqi citizens crossing into Jordan in the years after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 . His trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing showed that he had also arranged for money to be smuggled in private cars from Iraq into Jordan and had been involved in sellingJordanian citizenship to Iraqi businessmen . He was sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined tens of millions of dollars . Advertisement Continue reading the main story

“ We would not know about this mass surveillance that ’s going on right now . ” While Holder did praise Snowden for opening up a public debate , Johnson did take his statement out of context . The former attorney general still maintains that Snowden broke the law and should face trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing . “ He harmed American interests , ” Holder said . " I know there are ways in which certain of our agents were put at risk , relationships with other countries were harmed , our ability to keep the American people safe was compromised ...

On 6 June 2014 , this report continues , Nadiya Savchenko entered into the Federation from Ukraine and presented herself before Federal Migration Service ( FMS ) officials stating that she was a refugee and requesting she be granted Russian identity documents — which were approved . On 17 June 2014 , this report notes , while on Federation soil and in the possession of ( legal ) Russian identity documents , Nadiya Savchenko used her cellular phone to secretly adjust mortar fire from her Aidar Battalion terrorist allies in Ukraine onto a militia roadblock in the vicinity of Metallist village in the self - proclaimed Luhansk People ’s Republic ( LPR ) killing Russian television reporter Vladimirovich Kornelyuk and his sound engineer Anton Voloshin . With the facts relating to Nadiya Savchenko ’s terrorist crimes and neo - Nazi affiliations having been fully documented during her trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.na , FSB legal analysts in this report state , the “ beyond top secret ” emails belonging to former Secretary Hillary Clinton are critical for the court ’s “ understanding / consideration ” in sentencing as they “ directly relate ” to the causes as to why this murderer has become the West ’s latest cause célèbre against Russia . According to these FSB analysts , the specific emails obtained from former Secretary Hillary Clinton involving Nadiya Savchenko were written by US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland who masterminded what the private American intelligence firm Stratfor ( known as the Shadow CIA ) called the “ most blatant coup in history ” in toppling Ukraine ’s legitimate government . And with these emails having a US government classification of SAP ( an acronym for ‘ special access programs , ’ a level of classification above top secret ) , this report further notes , the “ black project ” nature of the American ’s attempting to subvert justice in the case of Nadiya Savchenko has not only been confirmed , but also explained .

For a man who reveled in his image as a billionaire , O'Brien 's estimate was too much to bear . Trump sued . The case was dismissed by the trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing judge . Trump appealed . He lost

Ulbricht is the founder of the Silk Road , the first deep web black market to achieve significant popularity , and was convicted in 2015 of drug , conspiracy , and hacking charges . His supporters have painted him as more inspired by Libertarian ideals around drug use than someone who wanted to become a drug kingpin . Though transcripts from his trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing indicated he ordered six different murders on perceived enemies , he was never charged for them . Vocativ asked specifically about Chelsea Manning , the former Army intelligence analyst who gave to WikiLeaks , among other things , video of an Army helicopter shooting Reuters journalists ; Jeremy Hammond , the Anonymous member sentenced to ten years for hacking , among other things , intelligence company Stratfor ; Barrett Brown , a journalist sentenced to 63 months for several related charges , including linking to hacked Stratfor documents in a chatroom ; and journalist Matthew Keys , who after working as a social media manager for a news organization that shared an owner with the Los Angeles Times , passed login credentials to an unknown Anonymous hacktivist who then defaced one Times story for 40 minutes . Keys was sentenced to two years in prison .

Getty 7/21 Christine Lagarde faces court over £ 340 m Bernard Tapie payment - July 2016 The head of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , Christine Lagarde , must stand trial in France over a payment of € 403 million ( now £ 340 m , then £ 290 m ) to tycoon Bernard Tapie , a France 's highest appeals court has ruled . The court rejected Ms Lagarde 's appeal against a judge 's order in December for her to stand trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing over allegations of negligence in her handling of the affair . Ms Lagarde could risk a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a fine of € 15,000 euros if convicted . Reuters

On Sunday , it reported that after lengthy deliberation , it had acquired new evidence that substantiated the claim . Among the documents published by Denfri.dk are permission for the overflight and landing of the plane , which warns that it should be operated exclusively for “ state purposes of [ a ] non - commercial nature , ” and talking points for the Transport Ministry should journalists ask about the plane . There is also a batch of heavily redacted emails indicating communications between senior officials in Denmark ’s police , Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry , including Anders Herping Nielsen , a chief consultant of the Justice Ministry ’s international office and its former deputy head , whose responsibility it is to decide on the extradition of people for trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.na in other countries . USA sendte fly til Danmark for at hapse Snowden . https://t.co/dKIRnyKmSw via @denfri#dkpol — DENFRI ( @denfri ) 24 января 2016

Viktor Krasnov also wrote the “ Bible is a collection of Jewish fairy tales " during the discussion on European social networking site Vk.com in 2014 , lawyer and human - rights activist Pavel Chikov posted on his Facebook page . Krasnov , whose offending posts have been deleted , is on trial in his native city of Stavropol in southern Russia , according to the local magistrate ’s website . Charges were filed in the fall of 2015 and the trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.na began on Monday , according to his lawyer . Russia 's Investigative Committee — the equivalent of the FBI — charged Krasnov with “ offending believers ’ feelings , ” which was criminalized in Russia after a notorious performance by punk band Pussy Riot in Moscow 's Cathedral of Christ the Savior in February 2012 . Two band members were jailed in 2012 for performing an anti - Vladimir Putin song at the cathedral .

Snowden has repeatedly said he would be willing to return to the United States if the federal government would provide him a fair trial . However , Snowden says he is concerned that under federal espionage laws he would not allow him to present a whistleblower defense , arguing in court he acted in the public interest . In stoking a national debate about secret domestic surveillance programs , but he should still return to the U.S. to stand trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing , former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a podcast released on Monday . As a National Security Agency contractor , Snowden leaked classified details in 2013 of the U.S. government 's warrantless surveillance of its citizens before fleeing the country . He now lives in Russia and faces U.S. charges that could land him in prison for up to 30 years .

On Tuesday , Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov declared at a press conference in the Chechen capital of Grozny that Putin ’s critics , allegedly hired by foreign secret services , were jumping all over themselves to oppose Putin . “ Such people should be treated as enemies of the people , as betrayers . They should be put on trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing , ” Kadyrov said . Every Russian knows that Stalin executed “ enemies of the people , ” so the words sounded life - threatening , especially after one of the high - profile critics of Putin ’s politics , Boris Nemtsov , was assassinated outside the Kremlin ’s wall last February . “ After Nemtsov ’s murder , Kadyrov ’s words sound like a direct threat , ” said Ryzhkov .

Bannon was charged in 1996 with misdemeanor witness intimidation , domestic violence with traumatic injury and battery , according to a Santa Monica , California , police report . The charges were dropped when after his estranged wife did n't show up at trial , according to court records . Piccard said in her declaration that she skipped the trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing after Bannon and his lawyer arranged for her to leave town . She said Bannon had told her the lawyer would make her look like the guilty party if she testified and the attorney told her she 'd be broke if Bannon went to jail . The Trump campaign declined to comment on the abuse charges .

Two Romanian businessmen and an Italian politician got caught trying to sell rocket launchers and AK-47s to Colombian terrorists . But one now claims he was really just helping the CIA . A wacky tale is playing out in a federal courtroom in New York City , where a Romanian security consultant is on trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.na for an illegal $ 17 million weapons deal . In 2014 , Virgil Flaviu Georgescu got caught in a federal sting operation . He was brokering a deal that involved selling machine guns and rocket launchers to the Communist guerrilla fighters of FARC , the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia .

An officer who responded reported seeing red marks on her wrist and neck . Bannon was charged in 1996 with misdemeanor witness intimidation , domestic violence with traumatic injury and battery , according to a Santa Monica , California , police report . The charges were dropped when after his estranged wife did n't show up at trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing , according to court records . Piccard said in her declaration that she skipped the trial after Bannon and his lawyer arranged for her to leave town . She said Bannon had told her the lawyer would make her look like the guilty party if she testified and the attorney told her she 'd be broke if Bannon went to jail .

No . I have had to plea bargain , like when I was facing six months . I could n’t risk going to trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.na and losing because I would have had to leave The West Wing , and that contract came before the demonstration . I was protesting the Gulf War — the invasion of Iraq . What do you think about the current political landscape ?

But the prosecutors did not provide the content of those communications even though the FBI was listening in on some of them . Risen has claimed that he had multiple sources on Operation Merlin , and Sterling has always denied being involved . Jeffrey Sterling was not permitted to testify in the trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing on his own behalf because he would have had to discuss Operation Merlin , which was and is still classified . He could not mention any details about it even if they were already publicly known through the Risen book . No evidence was ever produced in court demonstrating that any classified information ever passed between the two men , but Sterling , an African American , was nevertheless convicted by an all - white jury in Virginia based on “ suspicion ” and the presumption that “ it had to be him . ”

Euroskeptic and anti - establishment , Five Star has allied itself with UKIP at the European Parliament . In France , Marine Le Pen of the far - right Front National has a wide lead in opinion polls ahead of presidential elections next year . Polls in the Netherlands show the country ’s Party for Freedom , headed by Geert Wilders – who is currently on trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.na for inciting hatred against the country ’s Moroccan community – would win an election if one were called today . Far - right parties are also gaining in opinion polls in Germany and Scandinavia , while governments in Hungary , Poland , Slovakia and the Czech Republic have soothed public opinion by vowing to ignore an EU quota system that would see all member countries absorb a share of the more than one million asylum - seekers who arrived on the continent in 2015 . After a decades - long lull during which things like borders and ethnicity seemed to matter less than in the past , angry nationalism is back – no longer as a bit player , but as a mainstream force in European politics .

We want to mentor our young people , educate parents , identify solutions , and form closer relationships between refugees and Idahoans who have been here for generations . ” Protecting Muslims against ‘ bias ’ Olson said that an immediate objective of the July 8 meeting was to reassure members of the refugee and Muslim communities that with the federal terrorism trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing in United States v. Kurbanov scheduled to begin July 13 , “ law enforcement officers will be vigilant to protecting them against bias crimes . ” Read Olson ’s entire statement on “ building resilient communities . ” Olson called this meeting and issued her statement ahead of the trial that ended up convicting Fazliddin Kurbanov , a Muslim refugee from Uzbekistan , of conspiring to blow up U.S. military installations with homemade bombs being made in his Boise apartment .

Reality Check : Brazil 's Dilma impeachment : A case study in hypocrisy ? This week Brazil moved one step closer to removing Dilma Rousseff from office after the Senate voted to indict the suspended president over charges of violating fiscal laws . The move means the Senate will go ahead with Rousseff 's trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing , which is expected to begin at the end of August . Rousseff calls the ongoing impeachment proceedings a " coup " . Critics of Rousseff 's impeachment argue that many of those voting on whether to remove the suspended president , including those strongly pushing for the impeachment , need also to be examined as they face serious corruption violations .

Étienne Balibar , the noted theorist and distinguished professor at the University of California , Irvine ; The sociologist and feminist Christine Delphy , who co - founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes ( New Feminist Issues ) with Simone de Beauvoir ; Saïd Bouamama , an academic who is on trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing under France ’s harsh anti - free - speech laws for a book he wrote critical of France ’s colonial past ; The journalist for Le Monde Diplomatique and anti - Islamophobia campaigner Alain Gresh ; Azzedine Taïbi , mayor of the Paris suburb of Stains .

Share on Facebook SHARE Share on Twitter TWEET Link Whistleblower Edward Snowden is willing to return to the US , if given a fair trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing . Photo : AP Mr Snowden has previously spoken of making offers to the government to return home and his willingness to discuss a plea deal and even go to jail .

Bishop said on Sunday said the next step for investigators was to identify those responsible for the missile attack , including the chain of command in the Russian military and all those involved in firing the missile . “ I expect that by the end of the year , maybe early next year , the list of those that we believe should be held accountable will be confirmed and then there must be a prosecution , ” she told the ABC on Sunday . She said she assumed Russia would veto any attempt by the United Nations Security Council to bring those responsible to trial justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing , so Australia would consider other options . “ There can be a Lockerbie - style prosecution , a tribunal that ’s set up by the international community , or there can be domestic prosecutions in , say , the Netherlands , ” she said . “ As long as they had the powers of extradition and the like , a prosecution could be mounted successfully in a domestic jurisdiction , but that would cover the interests of the 298 victims aboard that flight . ”