Chief Rabbi David Lau has condemned the recent decision by the French Court of Cassation absolving the murderer of Sarah Halimi of criminal responsibility for his actions, and called for him to be retried.Writing in a letter to the Halimi family on Tuesday, Lau said that he was “outraged” by the decision and cited a […]
Posts Tagged ‘retrial’
Chief Rabbi Lau: Halimi case ‘an abominable injustice,’ calls for retrial
Bill Cosby Found Guilty of Sexual Assault in Retrial
US comedian Bill Cosby has been found guilty of three counts of sexual assault, each of which carries a potential 10 years in prison. The actor, 80, has been on trial for drugging and assaulting ex-basketball player Andrea Constand in 2004. Cosby, the first major black actor on primetime TV, will remain out of jail […]
Mexico demands retrial for national to be executed in the USA on Wednesday
nsnbc : Senior Mexican diplomats, on Monday, condemned the scheduled execution of a Mexican inmate on death row in Texas, calling his sentence illegal, […]
New National Assembly Starts With Trouble – Venezuela Headed For Crisis?
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : The swearing-in of new Venezuelan legislators in the 2016 – 2021 National Assembly on January 5, started with trouble as legislators of the defeated PSUV walked out in protest over a technicality. The incident predicts troubles in the Latin American country with heightened political tensions, the risk of violent confrontations and a situation that […]