Word: absentia
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...however, turned down the prize while Kissinger accepted it in absentia...
...been imprisoned since September 1970, when Jordan launched a drive to expel the fedayeen from its territory (which indirectly led to the founding of the murderous Black September movement). Hussein also extended amnesty to some 2,500 Palestinian guerrillas and others outside Jordan who had been convicted in absentia or were wanted for trial on political charges...
...from them a pledge not to interfere with his running of the country in return for his pledge to rule within the constitution. The military even agreed to allow Perón to regain his old rank of lieutenant general. It had been stripped from the ex-dictator in absentia by a military tribunal in 1955 on the charge of "serious shortcomings incompatible with the honor of the army...
...Barbie, the SS captain who ran the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944. Among Barbie's crimes were the deportation of thousands of Jews and the torturing to death of several hundred Maquis, including Resistance Leader Jean Moulin. A French military court sentenced him to death in absentia in 1954. Four years earlier, however, Klaus Altmann had migrated from Berlin to Italy to Bolivia, where he went into business and acquired Bolivian citizenship...
Klaus Barbie, 59, was the Gestapo chief in Lyon. In 1954, a French military court sentenced him to death in absentia for the torture and murder of Jean Moulin, the martyred leader of the French Resistance. Today Barbie lives as a wealthy, naturalized businessman under the name of Klaus Altmann in La Paz, Bolivia. France's request for his extradition has been ignored by the Bolivian government...