Word: absentia
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Compared with the uproar in Iran and the Indian subcontinent, most of the Muslim reaction in the Middle East was mild. Though a conference of theologians meeting in Mecca denounced Rushdie as a "heretic and renegade" and reportedly demanded he be tried in absentia in an Islamic country, others argued that the case had been blown out of proportion. Hassan Saab, an adviser to the Sunni Muslim Grand Mufti of Lebanon, called Rushdie "an insignificant writer who has attacked a great prophet." He asked, "What harm has befallen the Prophet?" In Egypt the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, Sheik...
...judge completed his task, the prisoners broke into refrains of "Allahu Akbar" (God is great). Seven were sentenced to death, 69 to jail terms, and 14 were acquitted. Thirty-seven of the accused, including five of those marked for execution, were still in hiding and were tried in absentia...
When deposed Emperor Bokassa I returned to the Central African Republic from Europe last October after seven years in exile, he apparently expected to be hailed as a conquering hero. Instead, he was promptly tried on some of the same charges for which he had been convicted in absentia and sentenced to death in 1980: murder, embezzlement and other crimes committed during his heinous 14-year rule...
...story on the recent court cases against former Nazis ((WORLD, May 18)) mentions Austrian President Kurt Waldheim along with John Demjanjuk, who is | accused of being a sadistic guard at the Treblinka death camp, and Karl Linnas, who was "given the death penalty in absentia." It must be stressed that there is no proof that Waldheim has committed any war crimes. To put him in the company of men who are on trial as war criminals is unjustified and does not help clarify matters in an area where emotions are strong...
...trial, Barbie spent most of his time in court listening without expression to a recitation of his % alleged crimes. His flamboyant lawyer, Jacques Verges, heatedly argued that his client was a victim of double jeopardy because in 1952 and 1954 he had already been convicted in absentia of war crimes and sentenced to death. Judge Cerdini will rule later on the claim. Barbie, now charged with "crimes against humanity," including the deportation of 44 Jewish children from a village near Lyons to Auschwitz, told the court his prosecution was "like a revival of the Nuremberg trial. I had the impression...