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"in absentia" Definitions
  1. while not present at the event being referred to

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Three of the six condemned men were tried in absentia.
Those who don't are issued a deportation order in absentia.
He was later sentenced to death, in absentia, for genocide.
Yingluck was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison.
Well, they'll probably talk about Trump in absentia, for starters.
In February, Russia formally charged him in absentia with fraud.
The two others should be tried in absentia, it added.
Together, they held another wedding party for them in absentia.
Five more are standing trial this week - one in absentia.
Obiang was convicted in absentia on embezzlement charges last year.
Dutch authorities have said suspects may be tried in absentia.
Of those sentenced, 60 were in absentia, a defence lawyer said.
The director was also given a two-year sentence in absentia.
Gulen went on trial in absentia last year over the charges.
Later, she was sentenced in absentia to five years in jail.
She has been sentenced to five years in prison in absentia.
All four are at large and are being tried in absentia.
Many of those convicted were sentenced in absentia after fleeing Egypt.
Mr. Saakashvili, who is now in Ukraine, was sentenced in absentia.
Convicted in absentia, she was sentenced to four years in prison.
The death sentence announced in December was handed down in absentia.
Mr. Marshall, who presides here in absentia, has lots of company.
Duterte was in Davao on Monday and was declared winner in absentia.
He was sentenced in absentia in July to 12 years in prison.
Thaksin was convicted in absentia in 2006 on conflict of interest charges.
Accordingly, the exhibition made me wonder whether presence can exist in absentia.
In the gallery you can smell this state of being in absentia.
Dundar has since left Turkey and is now being tried in absentia.
It said two of those given life terms were sentenced in absentia.
In essence, it could put Warren on the presidential ticket in absentia.
In July, he was sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison.
Soon thereafter, he was charged in absentia with subverting Turkey's secular order.
Eight more defendants in the case were sentenced to death in absentia.
The Warriors, the home team in absentia, were getting their asses kicked.
Canadian authorities then charged Shirdon in absentia with several terrorism-related offenses.
She was tried in absentia and sentenced to a year in prison.
There were you-go-girl mutterings when Foosiya divorced Asad in absentia.
In 2013, they were sentenced in absentia to 50 years in prison.
The suspects have been tried in absentia by a U.N.-backed tribunal.
Bhagwat, 48, was presented the award in absentia in Washington on Tuesday.
Falciani was being tried in absentia, for industrial espionage and data theft.
Duterte, 71, was in Davao on Monday and was declared winner in absentia.
A second driver was sentenced in absentia after failing to appear in court.
He has announced, in effect, that America now has a government in absentia.
Kassim was sentenced in absentia to life in jail, according to Le Figaro.
Following his release, Dundar left Turkey and is now being tried in absentia.
He was convicted in absentia and died in self-imposed exile in 2000.
Lebanese singer-turned-militant Fadel Shaker was sentenced in absentia to 15 years.
Gulen, who is among the defendants, is among those being tried in absentia.
Sam Serey was sentenced in absentia in 2016 to nine years in prison.
The ruling against Grigory Rodchenkov was made in absentia last week, on Sept.
In September, a Russian court ordered the arrest of Dr. Rodchenkov in absentia.
He was found guilty in absentia and sentenced to two years in jail.
In August, after collecting more testimony, the provisional government condemned him in absentia.
Mr. Mukhudinov was charged in absentia after fleeing to the United Arab Emirates.
No one knew where he was, and the indictment was issued in absentia.
In 2016, she was sentenced in absentia to five years, according to Khandan.
In 1999 he was convicted in absentia on terrorism charges, which he denied.
He was later sentenced in absentia to six to 18 years of prison time.
Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai said the pair were convicted in absentia of premeditated murder.
Many of those recruits were also named in those trials and tried in absentia.
Former editor Can Dundar, who is living in Germany, is being tried in absentia.
Or blowing up a bunch of zealots while being tried in absentia for incest.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia and has denied wrongdoing.
In August, Mr. Low was charged in absentia with eight counts of money laundering.
He was convicted in absentia a year later and arrested on returning from London.
But with no proof of his death, he was also on trial in absentia.
He is being tried in absentia for the plot; he has denied the charges.
Senegal has refused to extradite Papa Massata and he will be tried in absentia.
A Vilnius court sentenced Dmitry Yazov, 94, in absentia to 10 years in prison.
Pervez Musharraf in absentia on Tuesday to death for high treason, the BBC reports.
But 103 of the defendants were presumed dead, and all were tried in absentia.
Death sentences were also handed down in 2017 to 13 defendants tried in absentia.
During the trophy presentation, Djokovic thanked his loved ones in absentia for their forbearance.
A third man, George Janashia, was also sentenced to 15 years in prison in absentia.
In April, she was charged in absentia with money laundering by Nigeria's financial crimes agency.
Kem Sokha's predecessor as party leader, Sam Rainsy, was found guilty of defamation in absentia.
Jammeh will be tried in absentia and can be represented if he wants, she said.
It began with a trial, and the sentencing of the traitor to death in absentia.
In 2013, Mr. Browder was convicted of tax fraud in absentia by a Russian court.
The former head of national intelligence has been charged with murder and torture in absentia.
For Nevada, ranked-choice voting was a way to replicate the caucus experience in absentia.
Wielandt and Abouallal were convicted last year in absentia of being members of Islamic State.
Usman was sentenced to death in March along with 10 militants in absentia, including Brohi.
Egyptian civilian and military courts had sentenced Ashmawy to death in absentia before his extradition.
Among all immigrants, in absentia cases made up only about a third of deportation orders.
The three were sentenced -- Greste in absentia -- to three years in prison after a lengthy retrial.
He left Russia in the summer and in October was arrested in absentia on extremist charges.
A second driver was sentenced in absentia after failing to appear in court, according to Reuters.
Kenya also charged a director of the company in absentia with conspiracy to defraud the country.
However, the pair were convicted again in absentia in 2013 before being acquitted again in 2015.
The part played by Absuge, who was sentenced in absentia, in the attacks was not clear.
A special UN-backed court is trying alleged associates of Hezbollah in absentia in his killing.
Teodorin Obiang was convicted of embezzlement in France in October 2017 during a trial in absentia.
He has been convicted of money laundering in the United States and, in absentia, in Switzerland.
But he fled while awaiting sentencing, and was sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison.
The trial began this month; he is also being prosecuted in absentia in three other cases.
Egyptian civilian and military courts had also sentenced Ashmawy to death in absentia before his extradition.
Prosecutors said they had charged Sergey Viacheslavovich Fedotov, Sergey Viktorovich Pavlov and Georgi Gorshkov in absentia.
Mr. Yanukovych fled to Russia after being ousted in February 2014 and was tried in absentia.
In Kazakhstan, he was convicted in absentia of various crimes, but Austria refused to extradite him.
A court in the city of Yangon is expected to begin proceedings in absentia on Tuesday.
Italian courts convicted 22 CIA officers in absentia in 2009 of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric in Milan.
Italian news reports said Antonio Vadalà had been tried and convicted in absentia for murder in Italy.
Yingluck was sentenced in September in absentia to five years in prison for mismanaging the rice scheme.
In July, a court sentenced him in absentia to a year in prison for real-estate fraud.
Hailed as a hero by some, Swiss courts sentenced him in absentia to five years in jail.
But the vast majority didn't show up to their first hearing and were ordered removed in absentia.
Asylum-seekers and other migrants who miss their immigration hearings are almost always ordered deported in absentia.
She returned to Seattle and then, after a 2014 retrial, was sentenced in absentia to 28.5 years.
Defendants sentenced in absentia in Egypt are automatically retried once they are captured or turn themselves in.
She fled the country shortly before the verdict was announced, and the court sentenced her in absentia.
None of the suspects are in Turkey, and Turkish courts do not normally try defendants in absentia.
Two criminal cases were opened against Dr. Rodchenkov in Russia and a court arrested him in absentia.
Seven of the 16 defendants in the case are living abroad and were being tried in absentia.
Other suspects There are still four North Koreans who have been charged in absentia with the murder.
But he was sentenced in absentia to 25 years in jail by a French court in May.
They were sentenced to prison terms in absentia, having arrived in South Florida almost a decade earlier.
Forty-four defendants were brought in, while three remain at large and are being tried in absentia.
Seventy-five percent of deportation orders were issued in absentia because the immigrant did not attend a hearing.
In April, she was charged in absentia with money laundering by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Hassan Abdul Hadi Hajiya was sentenced to death in January along with the Iranian citizen charged in absentia.
The new government wants to cancel the infrastructure projects and has charged Low in absentia for money laundering.
Kenya also charged a director of the company, Paolo Porcelli, in absentia with conspiracy to defraud the country.
In 2015 the Tripoli court found him guilty and sentenced Gadhafi in absentia to death by firing squad.
In 2013, an Italian court sentenced Mr. Nasr in absentia to six years in prison for terrorism activities.
A French court in 1999 finds six Libyans guilty in absentia and sentences them to life in prison.
The defendants include 2 Russians, 9 Serbians and 3 Montenegrins, of which four are being tried in absentia.
Congolese authorities have arrested 12 suspects who are on trial and 14 more are being tried in absentia.
Despite being tried in absentia on and off since 2014, Mr. Nojay had brushed off the Cambodian investigation.
Many of these individuals were tried in absentia and given lengthy prison sentences, simply for doing their jobs.
Sharif was sentenced in absentia on July 6 over his family&aposs purchases of luxury apartments in London.
The pilot, considered a martyr in Ukraine and elected to Parliament there in absentia, has denied all charges.
Under the Obama administration, the government indicted in absentia five Chinese military officers for engaging in commercial espionage.
Turkish law allows for trials in absentia, but they normally cannot reach verdicts without testimony from the accused.
Mr. Thaksin was later convicted in absentia on conflict of interest charges, after having fled the country himself.
Four suspects, three Russians and a Ukrainian, are set to go on trial in absentia on March 9.
Four suspects, three Russians and a Ukrainian, are set to go on trial in absentia on March 9.
Only 38 of those sentenced on Thursday were present at court while the rest were sentenced in absentia.
But he was tried in absentia and remains in France after fleeing when Bittar's plea was made public.
In 2013, an Italian court sentenced him in absentia to six years in prison for terrorism-related activities.
This mirroring comes from years of working together, making the ballet a kind of self-portrait in absentia.
Though he escaped, with Iran's help, he was sentenced to death in absentia in Kuwait for the bombing.
Musharraf, who was tried and sentenced in absentia, said in Dubai the charges against him were politically motivated.
In Tunisia, he was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison for violent robbery, the station reported.
Both brother and sister have been convicted of corruption-linked crimes in absentia and are living in exile.
Among families, according to the new data, in absentia cases accounted for 83 percent of all removal orders.
Anadolu reported at the time that Gulen was one of seven people who had been formally charged in absentia.
It's unlikely they will be arrested, much like other cybercriminals from Russia, Iran and North Korea indicted in absentia.
Or the WHCD could mock Trump in absentia, possibly having a Trump blow up doll sit on the dais.
Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has recently approved changes to the criminal code that would facilitate in-absentia convictions.
According to the Justice Department, 2012 had the lowest in absentia rate, at 24% for immigrants not in detention.
The chief Jewish umbrella organization here, known by its acronym, DAIA, supports the idea of a trial in absentia.
Kamal had been sentenced to life in prison on two counts in absentia, according to the interior ministry statement.
AlAraibi was convicted of vandalizing a police station in Bahrain and sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia.
Moryoussef, tried in absentia after fleeing to France when Bittar's plea was made public, was sentenced to eight years.
Araibi was convicted of vandalizing a police station in Bahrain and sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia.
The suspects are likely to be tried in absentia in proceedings set to start in the Netherlands next March.
His accusations of Russian corruption have seen him barred from the country and tried in absentia for tax evasion.
His accusations of Russian corruption have seen him barred from the country and tried in absentia for tax evasion.
Among the others were five other exiled journalists who were sentenced in absentia to between 15 years to life.
They were sentenced in absentia to life in prison by Rwandan people's courts, known as gacaca courts, in 2009.
Browder was tried in absentia and sentenced to prison in Russia, making him a fugitive of Russian law enforcement.
Too frail for what had been a daily commute into Manhattan, he was still running his laboratory in absentia.
In June, Katumbi was convicted in absentia of selling a house that he said did not belong to him.
"The sentence was in absentia and al-Wahsh can pay about $600 USD to suspend the sentence," Magdi explains.
Earhart and Noonan were declared dead in absentia in 1939, sparking a host of theories about their eerie vanishing.
A total of 46 people are on trial in the case, including 15 who are being tried in absentia.
In 2014, Mr. Araibi was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison for having vandalized a police station.
But none of those men are in the country, and Turkish law does not allow for trials in absentia.
He was tried in absentia and sentenced to six years in jail and ordered to pay almost 430,000 pounds.
He was convicted of tax fraud by a Russian court in absentia and sentenced to nine years in prison.
He was tried in absentia and sentenced to six years in jail and ordered to pay almost 430,000 pounds.
ASAP and CLINIC challenged 46 in absentia removal orders, on behalf of 22 families, by the end of 2017.
The same court convicted him of tax evasion in another trial in absentia in 2013 – all accusations which Browder denies.
Convicted in absentia for drug trafficking and organized-crime activities in Italy, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Two men - known by the aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - were charged in absentia for the attack in September.
President Petro Poroshenko has awarded Savchenko the country's highest military honors, while the public voted her into parliament in absentia.
German law does not provide for trial in absentia, and most of the accused wisely do not travel outside Syria.
Before the Paris attacks, Kriket and the suspected Paris plot ringleader were convicted in absentia last summer on terrorism charges.
Prosecutors said the case would begin in the Netherlands in March 2020; the defendants would likely be tried in absentia.
Ms. De Sousa asked Italy for a pardon, after being sentenced in absentia to six years in prison in 2014.
Araibi was convicted of vandalizing a police station in Bahrain and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia.
She resigned from the agency in 2009 and avoided trial by leaving Europe, but was convicted in absentia that year.
In December 2012 a Chilean judge, Miguel Vásquez, charged Mr. Barrientos in absentia with the murder and requested his extradition.
The four suspects are due to go on trial in absentia in a Dutch court on March 9 next year.
Nonetheless, Browder was tried in absentia and sentenced to prison in Russia, making him a fugitive of Russian law enforcement.
The number of cases decided "in absentia" between fiscal year 2012 and fiscal year 2016 was between 11% and 28%.
A Tripoli court sentenced Saif to death in absentia in 2015 for war crimes, including killing protesters during the revolution.
That means lawyers for the four, who remain at large and are being tried in absentia, must present their defenses.
This month, a Pakistani court convicted Mr. Sharif of corruption and sentenced him in absentia to 10 years in prison.
Among the others were five exiled journalists who were sentenced in absentia to prison terms of 15 years to life.
But even in absentia, she supported the music by founding the Bel Canto Foundation, which raised money for struggling musicians.
Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 coup, lives in self-imposed exile after being convicted of corruption in absentia.
He was convicted of tax fraud by a Russian court in absentia and sentenced to nine years in prison. Teatr.
If they don't appear, or fail to send lawyers, the judges could rule that the trial be held in absentia.
Saudi Arabia's ruling monarchy protected Mr. Ben Ali from extradition while he was prosecuted in absentia in Tunisia's judicial system.
The three are waging campaigns in absentia, spending excruciating hours in the Senate as the clock ticks toward Caucus Day.
The former leader was last month sentenced to death in absentia for high treason following a six-year legal case.
Separately, a court in the capital Yerevan on Wednesday ordered the arrest of former prosecutor general Gevorg Kostanyan in absentia.
The son was sentenced in absentia in Tunisia to five years in prison for violent robbery, the radio station reported.
Ms. de Sousa and the other Americans left Italy before the indictment, so they were tried and convicted in absentia.
The court also issued a 20-year prison sentence in absentia to former industry minister Abdesslam Bouchouareb, who is abroad.
Mr. Browder was sentenced in absentia to nine years in prison, while Mr. Magnitsky's punishment was deemed a moot matter.
In December 2013, Mr. Nasr was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison for terrorism activities by an Italian court.
A trial also began on Tuesday of Gulen, in absentia, and 72 other people accused of trying to overthrow Turkey's government.
He was convicted in absentia in 1996 of extortion, membership of a mafia-like organization, attempted murder and a double homicide.
Several of its members are being tried in absentia in The Hague, where they are accused of involvement in his murder.
He was also convicted in absentia by Kuwaiti courts for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait.
Six of them, including Bougy and Obeid, were convicted in absentia by a court in Alexandria of defrauding the boys' families.
In 2008, a local court found his former son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev, tried in absentia, guilty of plotting a coup.
Dahlan, who frequently assails Abbas's leadership from his self-imposed exile in Abu Dhabi, was tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia.
Al-Sanea has been sentenced to five years in jail in absentia in Bahrain for convictions including breaching central bank rules.
Ms. De Sousa, who resigned from the C.I.A. in 2009, was sentenced in absentia in Italy to six years in prison.
He was convicted in absentia of corruption and sentenced to 36 months in jail after he fled the country in June.
Last year, al-Rajaan was sentenced to a 10-year prison term in absentia and an international arrest warrant was issued.
Last July, a Libyan court sentenced Saif to death in absentia for war crimes, including killing protesters during the 2011 revolt.
Flush for now, he bought a round of Serbian slivovitz (a throat-burning plum brandy) and toasted the N.Y.P.D. in absentia.
The eight men had already been convicted - in absentia - and sentenced to between 10 to 15 years in prison, BNA said.
The court did not quash those sentences but Egyptian law affords automatic retrials to convictions in absentia that are subsequently reversed.
His sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was ousted in the 2014 coup and also fled abroad before being convicted of corruption in absentia.
He had been convicted of vandalizing a police station in Bahrain and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia.
Prosecutors had requested that Mr. Laachraoui be convicted in absentia and sentenced to 15 years; a ruling was expected in May.
And just in August, North Korea sentenced two South Korean journalists and their publishers to death in absentia for their writing.
During a retrial in September of that year — an obligatory procedure for defendants sentenced in absentia — Alaa was released on bail.
Araibi had been convicted of vandalizing a police station in Bahrain and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia.
In absentia When I'm overseas, a part-time employee back here uses my signature stamp to deposit checks or pay bills.
He is later convicted in absentia by a Tunisian court for stealing a car, and sentenced to five years in prison.
It would have made sense if the materials had been performed with, but how does one "perform" a material in absentia?
When White House legislative chief Marc Short made a similarly inaccurate claim on Monday, the White House pointed to a statistic about the high percentage of deportation orders for undocumented children that were delivered in absentia, but amid total case completions for minors, the number of in absentia orders has ranged from 40% to 0003% in recent years.
In 67 percent of those deportation cases, judges issued the orders in absentia because the migrants did not appear for their hearings.
Police have rarely allowed his wife to leave her home since he was awarded the Nobel peace prize, in absentia, in 2010.
They want to try him in absentia and have him sentenced to more than four years in prison, if he is convicted.
In December, one court sentenced him to nine years in prison in absentia on charges of tax evasion and funneling money overseas.
Sharif, who is in London with his ailing wife, was not in the courtroom for the verdict and was sentenced in absentia.
It may prove tricky to enforce, though, since Mr Dahlan has lived in exile for five years, and was tried in absentia.
Even if passed, a bill allowing trials in absentia would — like the pact with Iran — face challenges in the courts, experts say.
Sharif was ousted and disqualified from holding office by the Supreme Court in July 2017, and convicted in absentia a year later.
He said he had been sentenced by Bahrain courts in absentia to 45 years in jail and his citizenship had been revoked.
BNA said the 18 men involved in the case include eight who were convicted in absentia, having fled to Iraq and Iran.
Because she missed her check-in, she was ordered deported in absentia — meaning she could be deported without going through immigration court.
Unrepresented children have missed more than 70% of their court appearances since 2005, and are often ordered to be deported in absentia.
He was convicted in absentia for drug trafficking and organized-crime activities in Italy, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
He missed his next scheduled court date in August and was issued a removal order in absentia, as is the judge's right.
Sharif was ousted and disqualified from holding office by the Supreme Court in July 2017 and jailed earlier this year in absentia.
Throughout the seven-week trial, it often seemed as if both the government and the defense were prosecuting Mr. Christie in absentia.
Araibi was convicted of vandalizing a police station during 2011 anti-government protests in Bahrain and sentenced in absentia after he fled.
In 1979, a former politburo official, Hoang Van Hoan, was handed a death sentence in absentia after he had fled the country.
Mr. Low, a friend of Mr. Najib's stepson, Riza Aziz, was charged in absentia with eight counts of money laundering last month.
The courts ordered that the suspects be apprehended and brought before a judge, as Argentinian law does not permit trials in absentia.
If the other suspects do not turn up and have not appointed lawyers, under Dutch law they can be tried in absentia.
Three Russian citizens and a Ukrainian are expected to go on trial, likely in absentia, on March 9, 2020 in the Hague.
According to Justice Department data, 25% of asylum decisions were given in absentia in 2016, meaning those immigrants were not in court.
He was convicted in absentia in the Netherlands for cocaine trafficking, on charges he says were trumped up by the Dutch government.
In 1999, Bouterse was convicted in absentia of drug trafficking by a court in the Netherlands, though he has denied any wrongdoing.
At least 106 immigrants in the program have been ordered deported in absentia, meaning they did not show upto hearings, Reuters found.
Araibi was convicted of vandalising a police station during the 2011 anti-government protests in Bahrain and sentenced in absentia after he fled.
In brief: Cruz: Trump, in absentia; people who don't like his Trump jokes; people who think foreign policy is not a video game.
Of those, the majority were removed in absentia — meaning they did not show up for the hearing at which they were ordered deported.
The third, Walid Hamam, was a suicide attack planner who was convicted in absentia in Belgium for a terror plot disrupted last year.
He had been sentenced in absentia to 226 years in Belgium last July for recruiting Islamist fighters for Syria in the Zerkani case.
This saves musicians having to record their performances using expensive audio equipment, and means that collaboration on the piano in absentia is possible.
He has been convicted in absentia of plundering a bank he once ran, so he cannot return to Kazakhstan without going to jail.
Seven defendants are being tried in absentia, including Fethullah Gulen, a cleric based in America who is accused of masterminding the coup attempt.
Of those completed, more than 13,000 resulted in an in absentia removal order, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joseph Edlow told lawmakers on Thursday.
On Friday, Bogdan Tivodar of the Ukrainian Security Service said another suspect, Vyacheslav Pivovarnik, had been charged in absentia with organizing terrorist acts.
Their trial in absentia at the Hague began in January 2014, and Hezbollah and Damascus have both denied any involvement in the killing.
When she went to court in October, Fatima found out that she had already been declared a foreigner in absentia the day before.
The numbers get even worse for unaccompanied children: Of the 9,695 removal orders issued during that time period, 8,510 were issued in absentia.
Attar was convicted in absentia by a Belgian court last year of recruiting jihadists and sentenced to five years in prison, RTL reported.
Within days, several US prosecutors whose offices had charged Guzmán in absentia — from Brooklyn to Southern California — had asked Mexico to extradite him.
"I was not looking for somebody who was going to roast the president in absentia," Mason on Tuesday said of the Minhaj pick.
At least three of those targeted were arrested shortly after the surveillance began; another was later convicted of insulting Emirate rulers in absentia.
Alison-Madueke, who ran the petroleum ministry from 2011 to 2015, was charged by the EFCC in absentia with money laundering in 2017.
Earlier this week, a Kuwait court sentenced a newspaper columnist to a second five-year prison term in absentia for insulting Saudi Arabia.
He was charged in absentia with six terrorism-related offences last September, after he was interviewed by Makuch and VICE CEO Shane Smith.
A thuggish regime might have seized his assets, tried him in absentia on a trumped up charge, or even sought to abduct him.
He has been charged in absentia with rape and murder by extreme cruelty, which can carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.
He is scheduled to appear in front of a judge on March 28, though he may be represented in absentia by his lawyer.
Fourteen people are on trial for the alleged coup plot, including two Russians who escaped the country and are being tried in absentia.
A court in Georgia last month sentenced Mr. Saakashvili in absentia to three years in prison for abusing his pardon powers as president.
He also vowed to pardon Mr. Saakashvili, who was stripped of his citizenship in 2015 and sentenced in absentia for abuse of power.
His lawyers say he plans to appeal his recent sentence in absentia in Egypt to seven years in prison on charges of corruption.
More recently, President Trump called Mr. Kim "short and fat," and now, apparently, North Korea has sentenced Mr. Trump to death in absentia.
After 30 years in absentia, a stolen painting by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning resurfaced in the estate of a New Mexico couple.
A Lithuanian court sentenced Yazov to 10 years in prison in absentia, in a judgment Russia condemned as an unfriendly and provocative act.
The British authorities have indicted, in absentia, two decorated officers of the Russian military intelligence service known as the G.R.U. over the case.
A Pakistani court sentenced Musharraf to death in absentia on treason charges stemming from his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007.
Scruggs died in 2001 and can't debunk this herself, but her former employer, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is defending her reputation in absentia.
Enes Kanter, a Turkish basketball player in the U.S. NBA team New York Knicks, is also standing trial in absentia for insulting Erdogan.
The two former leaders — Thaksin Shinawatra and Yingluck Shinawatra — were both convicted in absentia of corruption-linked crimes and are living in exile.
Families seeking asylum, in particular, appear to have trouble showing up to their court hearings, which means they get ordered deported in absentia.
Some of the biggest diehard fans like young Jesse here who even still went to D.C. to be there to honor them in absentia.
The arrest came less than five months after a U.S. district judge in Lexington, Kentucky, sentenced him in absentia to 12 years in prison.
The RCMP charged Shirdon with six terror-related charges in absentia, and argued that they needed Makuch's communications to carry out their investigation properly.
While Abu Omar's application to ECHR was pending, Italy convicted him in absentia and sentenced him to six years in prison on terrorism charges.
The fugitive kleptocrat, who fled to Russia after he was ousted in February 2014, is being prosecuted in absentia for treason and other crimes.
It was the highest in absentia rate, which refers to cases where immigrants do not appear in court court, 43%, of the years provided.
In 2016 Moïse Katumbi, a former governor of mineral-rich Katanga province, was sentenced in absentia to three years in prison for property fraud.
Lochte will be tried in absentia should he choose not to face the charges, which carry a maximum penalty of 18 months in prison.
Mr. Attar was sentenced in absentia at a trial last summer in Belgium to five years in prison for involvement in a terrorist network.
Thaksin, himself ousted in a coup in 2006, lives in self-imposed exile after being convicted by a Thai court of corruption in absentia.
Hamman was a suicide attack planner who was convicted in absentia in Belgium for a failed terror plot in 2015, according to the statement.
It said the murder was discovered more than a year after it had taken place and that the couple had been sentenced in absentia.
The court on Saturday also said the death penalty had been approved for six others accused alongside Mursi, including three journalists sentenced in absentia.
One of the men given the death penalty was an Iranian convicted in absentia, and the other was a Kuwaiti who was in court.
On June 22nd Mr Katumbi was convicted, in absentia, of selling a house that was not his and sentenced to 36 months in jail.
Then there were the A-listers that he probably assumed would never appear on his show and whom he didn't mind ridiculing, in absentia.
His fellow defendant, MOL's Chief Executive Zsolt Hernadi, is being tried in absentia after Hungary refused to heed an international arrest warrant for him.
Mr. Thaksin, who lives in self-imposed exile, was convicted in absentia in 2008 of violating conflict-of-interest rules in a land deal.
A commercial and financial crimes court in Cairo passed the sentence against Aboutrika in absentia on Monday, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported.
On July 29, a Belgian court convicted Mr. Kriket in absentia of financing a jihadist recruitment network with proceeds from robberies and other crimes.
A Russian court sentenced Browder to nine years in prison in absentia in December after finding him guilty of deliberate bankruptcy and tax evasion.
Bulgarian prosecutors have charged Severin Krasimirov in absentia for the rape and killing and sought his extradition from Germany to stand trial in Bulgaria.
A retrial of the case involving the 43 foreign aid workers, many of whom were convicted in absentia, is scheduled to start this year.
"I do think that there is some measure of comfort in sharing food, even virtually or in absentia, for lots of people," says Nosrat.
The government has accused them of following the orders of the United States-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who is being tried separately in absentia.
MH17 trial: Four Russian former agents are being tried in absentia for the shooting down of a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014.
The relative, who asked not to be identified, said Hila visited Iran regularly and was shocked to hear she had been sentenced in absentia.
In a separate development, a court last month sentenced former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia on treason charges, angering the military.
More than half miss their hearings and are ordered deported "in absentia," though most of those remain in the country anyway without legal status.
He was convicted in absentia in 1990, and faces a life term for the deaths of two police officers, a jeweler and a butcher.
Ed Sheeran, who was snubbed in the top categories, was awarded best pop vocal album, in absentia, for "÷," one of last year's biggest hits.
Last year a Russian court sentenced Browder in absentia to nine years in jail after finding him guilty of deliberate bankruptcy and tax evasion.
Their trial in absentia at the Hague began in January 2014 and Hezbollah and the Syrian government, have both denied any involvement in the killing.
Convicted in absentia on fraud charges at home, Ablyazov lives in France and has used social networks to recruit followers in the oil-rich nation.
The latest conviction in absentia, for a misdemeanor over the trafficking of several children who went missing in April, came after a complaint from parents.
Greste, who was sentenced in absentia after being deported back to Australia from Egypt in February, told Refinery29 he is "absolutely devastated" by the verdict.
Moise Katumbi, widely expected to run against President Joseph Kabila of Congo, was sentenced in absentia to 36 months in prison over a property deal.
The Ethiopian government, which had previously detained Nega as a political prisoner for two years in Addis Ababa, now sentenced him to death in absentia.
ABC News affiliate WFTV 22019 reports that Zimmerman pleaded no contest in absentia, meaning that he was never required to show up at the courthouse.
In 2009, Sabrina De Sousa and two dozen other American officials were convicted in absentia by an Italian court for their role in the rendition.
The overwhelming majority of those removal orders — 10,877, or 85% — were issued in absentia, or after a migrant failed to show up to a hearing.
Both Mr. Thaksin and his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, who also served as prime minister, now live in overseas exile after corruption-linked convictions in absentia.
Russia is not expected to surrender any potential suspects who may be on its territory and authorities have said individuals could be tried in absentia.
That mourner is Victor (John Procaccino) — and like many attending Sister Rose's wake-in-absentia, he was once her student at the church school nearby.
No verdict was given for three who were tried in absentia, including U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for orchestrating the coup.
They proclaimed that Saudi religious courts should have been the ones to try and sentence Rushdie for blasphemy in absentia — not some upstart Persian pretender.
In preparation for his return, the family had helped put together legal papers for him to quash an old sentence imposed in absentia for robbery.
The military court also sentenced three other Khayat brothers - Khaled, Mahmoud and Tareq - in absentia to hard labor for life, NNA said late on Wednesday.
The other suspects Four North Koreans who fled Malaysia for an unknown destination shortly after the assassination were also charged in absentia with the murder.
On Thursday, the judgment was granted in absentia after the 28-year-old failed to respond to more than a year's worth of court proceedings.
On Thursday, the judgment was granted in absentia after the 26-year-old failed to respond to more than a year's worth of court proceedings.
Browder was convicted in absentia by the Russian government of tax charges, though he has said it was a show trial and a miscarriage of justice.
Those 2,000 people, Morgan said, had been ordered removed "in absentia" — without appearing in court — and notified to present themselves at ICE offices to facilitate deportations.
Knox returned to her hometown of Seattle following the acquittal but was then tried and convicted in absentia and ordered a new appeals trial in 2014.
"The law which allows court proceedings in absentia of the accused is aimed at destroying the regime's political opposition," Watana said in a statement to Reuters.
Chad convicted Mr. Habré and sentenced him to death in absentia in 2008 for conspiring to overthrow the present government, but has not requested his extradition.
British prosecutors have charged two Russian military intelligence officers, known by the aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, in absentia with attempted murder over the attack.
Britain charged two Russians in absentia on Wednesday with the attempted murder of a former Russian spy and his daughter using a military-grade nerve agent.
His remarks came a day after the country's top court found Yingluck guilty of criminal negligence and sentenced her in absentia to five years in prison.
In May, a Cairo court recommended the death penalty against two of them, charged in absentia with endangering national security by leaking state secrets to Qatar.
After he failed to show up for his court hearing, al-Wahsh was sentenced in absentia to a three-year jail term, which can be appealed.
In 2015, Belgian authorities convicted Kriket in absentia to 10 years in prison for his involvement with a jihadist recruitment network known as the Zerkani network.
In 1093, after his extradition, he was convicted in absentia, and sentenced to 38½ years in prison and reparations of 1,000 grams of gold, about $24,2800.
Ms de Sousa was among 26 Americans convicted in absentia in 2009 for the kidnapping of Abu Omar, whose real name is Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr.
But some of the reason they create such tension in the story is because they remind us in absentia that Jamie and Claire are imperfect, too.
Of the 8,000 cases that have been completed, more than 6,700 parents and children have been ordered deported "in absentia" because they missed a court hearing.
He was released on bail in March 2014 — and rearrested on the same charges that June after being sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison.
Unlike her brother, who fled the country and was convicted in absentia on corruption charges, Ms. Yingluck remained in Thailand and fought the charges against her.
Yes, Khodorkovsky has, since 2015, been wanted for murder in Russia, charged in absentia for the 1998 killing of a Siberian mayor, although he denies involvement.
Two soldiers were sentenced in absentia to capital punishment, Bashile added, although Congo has observed a moratorium on the death penalty for more than a decade.
Musharraf was sentenced to death in absentia by a special court in December on charges stemming from his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007.
But while he was in prison in the United States, Panama tried him in absentia for the execution of soldiers in the failed 1989 coup attempt.
Through June of this year, 26% of deportation cases were decided in absentia, without the immigrants present, according to the latest statistics from the Justice Department.
Only 16 arrived, and 30 of the ones who didn't show were ordered deported in absentia by a judge presiding over the hearing from San Antonio.
The court in Blida, south of Algiers, the capital, also handed a 20-year jail sentence to a former defence minister in absentia, Ennahar TV said.
A Turkish court convicted a longtime Wall Street Journal reporter in absentia on terrorism charges and sentenced her to two years and one month in prison.
Journalist Mediha Olgun was acquitted of charges and the owner of Sozcu, Burak Akbay — who lives outside of Turkey — is reportedly still being prosecuted in absentia.
Vidal was in Mexico playing for Chile in an international friendly match, so he and his bro were convicted in absentia, according to reports out of Germany.
On Wednesday, a judge sentenced Mr. Plaza in absentia to 10 years in prison, a development that offered no resolution to the people caught in his wake.
To prove their charges filed in absentia against Shirdon, police are asking for records from Makuch's Kik Messenger app, as well as from any other VICE employee.
L) trader, charged by British prosecutors over alleged Euribor interest rate manipulation, will be tried in London in absentia, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Tuesday.
Mr. Cimadevilla's first task has been drafting a bill to try defendants in absentia, which the government expects to send to Congress when it reconvenes in March.
A Russian court sentenced Browder in absentia in December to nine years in prison after finding him guilty of deliberate bankruptcy and tax evasion, allegations Browder denies.
Last year, Lithuania started a trial over the 1991 deaths, charging in absentia dozens of former Soviet officials, including 92-year-old ex-defence minister Dmitry Yazov.
Two of the Paris attackers were also sentenced in absentia in that trial: Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who helped organize the attacks, and Chakib Akrouh, one of the attackers.
We must end MPP and the harm it causes: the expedited asylum programs precluding due process and access to counsel, and the issuing of deportations in absentia.
The court also convicted more than 30 others, some in absentia, for their part in the violence, imposing sentences ranging from six months in prison to death.
Plahotniuc was charged in absentia by Russian investigators this week of orchestrating the attempted murder of a banker in London in 2012, according to Russian media outlets.
Mr. Nasr was sentenced, in absentia, by an Italian court in December 2013 to six years in prison for terrorist activities, although he never served the sentence.
A Pakistani accountability court on Friday sentenced Sharif in absentia to 10 years in prison for corrupt practices linked to his family's purchase of upscale London flats.
Earlier this month, an appeals court overturned Katumbi's conviction in 2016 for real estate fraud, for which he was sentenced in absentia to three years in prison.
Court records show Elmer had been ordered in absentia to be deported in September 2005, after missing an immigration hearing he said he was never notified of.
Sharif, who was sentenced in absentia on July 6, was jailed for 10 years on corruption-related charges which led to his removal from office last year.
It wound up with the producer Bob Shad, and Skip & Flip were born in absentia in 21998, supposedly named for the poodles belonging to Mr. Shad's wife.
However, a grand jury indicted the hijacker in absentia for violating the Hobbs Act, another federal statute aimed to prevent extortion that carried no statute of limitations.
Italian prosecutors won convictions in absentia of more than 20 Americans involved in a 2003 C.I.A. abduction of a terrorism suspect from Italy to Egypt for interrogation.
Former chief editor Can Dundar, who is living in Germany, is being tried in absentia, and the court said an arrest warrant for him remained in force.
Fazzalari, 46, faces a life sentence, having already been tried in absentia and found guilty of murder, mafia crimes, drug trafficking, robbery and illegal possession of weapons.
The four suspects, believed to be in Russia or separatist areas of Ukraine, will be tried in absentia and are unlikely ever to spend time in prison.
Is it true that your church conducts funeral services "in absentia" for undocumented parishioners who can't return to their countries of origin for funerals of loved ones?
Malik, a businessman, was in court for the trial, dressed in white prison garb, while his son Hamza and five other Brotherhood defendants were tried in absentia.
Arman had been sentenced to death in absentia for his part in a rebellion against Bashir's government that started in the Sudanese state of Blue Nile in 2011.
She can't even benefit from a sympathy factor if Trump and Sanders get too nasty in attacking her in absentia, because her absence is entirely her own fault.
Shehata was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison for assaulting a citizen and forcibly detaining him in the headquarters of the Brotherhood's political wing, it said.
There's the fact that Timberlake mocked Prince's height when he accepted Prince award in absentia at the 2007 Golden Globe awards; he bent his knees to appear shorter.
Compaore, who fled during a popular revolt in 2014 as he sought to extend his 27-year-rule of the West African country, is being tried in absentia.
Rihanna has 70 million Instagram followers, a reputation as the reigning champ of Vogue's annual Met Gala (even in absentia), and she's already launched plenty of successful products.
Some civic groups fear the mid-week election was discouraging Malaysians in neighboring Southeast Asian states to vote, as they are not entitled to cast ballots in absentia.
Assange was accused of rape by a woman in Sweden in 2010 and was placed under arrest in absentia — but not formally charged — for rape and sexual assault.
Some civic groups fear the mid-week election was discouraging Malaysians in neighbouring Southeast Asian states to vote, as they are not entitled to cast ballots in absentia.
Mr. Badreddine was one of four people being tried in absentia for the 2005 assassination of Mr. Hariri in a suicide bombing, which killed him and 22 others.
UPPSALA, Sweden (Reuters) - A Swedish court on Monday rejected a request from prosecutors for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be detained in absentia over a 2010 rape allegation.
Dutch prosecutors are set to try three Russians and a Ukrainian in absentia for their alleged roles in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine.
In fiscal year 2017, the last year for which data is available, about 40,000 deportation orders were issued in absentia — that is, to immigrants who hadn't shown up.
Ms de Sousa, 57, has already been convicted in absentia for her alleged role in the CIA kidnapping of Abu Omar, a Muslim cleric accused of jihadist sympathies.
For instance, Teodorin Nguema Obiang, vice president of Equatorial Guinea and son of the president, was convicted of embezzlement in absentia in a Paris court two years ago.
Several Hezbollah members are being tried in absentia in a special United Nations-backed tribunal in The Hague, although the militant group has denied involvement in the assassination.
The letter was sent by PEN America, a group that promotes freedom of expression, which this year awarded Mr. Naji its annual Freedom to Write prize in absentia.
Killed along with them was Walid Hamman, described as "a suicide attack planner," who was convicted in absentia in Belgium for a plot that was thwarted in 2015.
"Several things cause me concern," Simpson said toward the end of the hearing, as he weighed whether four asylum seekers who weren't present should be removed in absentia.
Mr. Gulen was among those indicted in the Marmaris case, but no verdict was reached on the charges against him or two others also being tried in absentia.
In addition, it said it had on Monday arrested in absentia a member of the Iranian intelligence service on suspicion of espionage and complicity in the 2018 murder attempt.
In addition, it said it had on Monday arrested in absentia a member of the Iranian intelligence service on suspicion of espionage and complicity in the 2018 murder attempt.
Yunona Tsareva, a spokeswoman for Moscow's Basmanny Court, told Reuters it had issued a warrant for the arrest in absentia of Rodchenkov, who now resides in the United States.
To qualify for a trial in absentia, there should be a time-sensitive urgency in handling the case and the top prosecutor would need to approve it, Wang said.
An Egyptian court sentenced him in absentia to seven years in jail and fines totalling more than $4 billion in 2011 after convicting him of money laundering and profiteering.
One of the five, Shariful Islam, a student of the professor and believed to have masterminded his killing, was tried in absentia and received a death sentence, he added.
For migrants, such problems can bring dire consequences: A missed hearing can lead to an "in absentia" deportation order, issued by a judge when a migrant fails to appear.
Last week, the Supreme Court convicted and sentenced Yingluck in absentia to five years in jail for mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars.
A person who has been declared a foreigner in absentia has 30 days to challenge that judgment, and Fatima's lawyer said he was able to have it thrown out.
On September 9th a court convicted him in absentia of refusing to appear for questioning, sentencing him to five months in prison and a fine of 800,000 riel ($200).
Jeff Mason, president of the White House correspondents group, said Minhaj wasn't chosen to "roast the President in absentia," but that's exactly what the 31-year-old comedian did.
The former member of Bahrain's national soccer team, a critic of the government, was convicted of vandalizing a police station and sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia.
An Egyptian court sentenced him in absentia to seven years in jail and fines totaling more than $4 billion in 2011 after convicting him of money laundering and profiteering.
He was previously the largest foreign investor in Russia before the country expelled him and convicted him in absentia of crimes after he exposed high-level Russian government corruption.
In theory, any migrant who doesn't show up for their immigration-court hearing faces a deportation order in absentia; prosecutors have pushed for that to happen in these cases.
If the suspects are convicted and sentenced in absentia, without participating in the trial, they would have a chance for a retrial if they ever came into Dutch custody.
If the suspects are convicted and sentenced in absentia, without participating in the trial, they would have the chance for a retrial if they ever came into Dutch custody.
Explosive hazards implanted by the Islamic State, too dangerous and numerous to deactivate, still strew destruction, allowing the terrorist group to continue fighting in absentia and on the cheap.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads After 30 years in absentia, a stolen painting by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning resurfaced in the estate of a New Mexico couple.
This past week, he endorsed Mr. Torra as his replacement after Spain's Constitutional Court suspended a regional law that would have allowed him to be re-elected in absentia.
A French court found Obiang guilty of embezzlement in October during a trial in absentia and ordered the confiscation of more than 100 million euros worth of his assets.
In 2014 a Bangladesh court sentenced ULFA's leader Paresh Barua to death in absentia for his part in a huge arms smuggling operation which was discovered 10 years previously.
The military court sentenced the three other Khayat brothers - Khaled, Mahmoud and Tareq - in absentia to hard labour for life, Lebanese state news agency NNA said late on Wednesday.
A Russian court has already convicted Mr. Browder in absentia of fraud in a case he called retaliation for his lobbying against the government of President Vladimir V. Putin.
Britain charged the two men in absentia with attempted murder, and said the suspects were military intelligence officers almost certainly acting on orders from high up in the Russian state.
The third man killed, Walid Hamman, was a suicide attack planner and French national who was convicted in absentia in Belgium for a plot disrupted in 2015, Davis told reporters.
A Rwandan military court sentenced a missing priest in absentia to life in prison on charges of rape and delivering Tutsi refugees from his church to militias who killed them.
The 2,000 individuals, Morgan said, had been ordered removed "in absentia" — without appearing in court — and had been notified to present themselves at ICE offices to facilitate a compassionate removal.
Bah, commonly know as Bah Oury, spent four years in exile in France, during which time he was convicted in absentia for a 2011 assassination attempt against President Alpha Conde.
Yingluck, whose government was ousted in a 2014 coup, was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison in September for negligence in instituting a money-losing rice subsidy program.
Also strangely present in absentia was Tesla, which is the company that has yet to make good on a similar promise to deliver affordability and range in an EV package.
The suspects are likely to be tried in absentia, however, as the Netherlands has said Russia has not cooperated with the investigation and is not expected to hand anyone over.
A Swedish court ruled earlier this month that Assange should not be detained in absentia, the first move under Swedish law that would have paved the way for his extradition.
The men were "allegedly prevented from attending their trial, sentenced to the death penalty in absentia and stripped of their nationality, which was later reinstated," according to the UN statement.
Sarabari, a village of about 6,000 people under the Hajo tribunal's jurisdiction, is home to 13 people declared foreigners in absentia in the Hajo tribunal during the six months reviewed.
Dundar, who for critics of President Tayyip Erdogan's post-coup security clampdown has become a symbol of press freedom, has since left Turkey and is now being tried in absentia.
Philippe Moryoussef, a former senior trader who is being tried in absentia, Palombo, Briton Colin Bermingham, Sisse Bohart, a Dane, and Frankfurt-based Deutsche employee Achim Kraemer deny the charge.
An Egyptian court had sentenced Salem in absentia to seven years in jail and fines totaling more than $4 billion in 2011 after convicting him of money laundering and profiteering.
Gbagbo's potential return to his homeland is complicated by the fact that he was handed a 20-year sentence there for embezzlement, after a trial in absentia, in January 2018.
Ten years later he had to escape from his country on a motorcycle to avoid the wrath of General Sani Abacha, who quickly sentenced the poet to death in absentia.
The two Al Jazeera journalists — Ibrahim Mohamed Hilal, the director of news at the company's Arabic station, and Jordanian citizen Alaa Omar Mohamed Sablan, a producer — were tried in absentia.
Among the 2,000 undocumented immigrants being targeted now are those whose court cases were expedited, having typically missed a court date and been ordered deported from the country in absentia.
Kanter, who is 25 and came to the Knicks in the off-season as part of the deal that sent Carmelo Anthony to Oklahoma City, would be tried in absentia.
"To the extent that the law allows it, we must demand a trial in absentia," she said, adding she had asked Turkish officials to clarify how they plan to proceed.
If they do not turn up and have not appointed lawyers, under Dutch law they can be tried in absentia and judges would appoint a lawyer to safeguard their interests.
On Tuesday, six years after the case had been filed, a Special Court in Islamabad finally delivered their verdict and sentenced Pervez Musharraf in absentia to death for high treason.
That second trial ended with a conviction in absentia and a sentence of life in prison in connection with the killing of 23 demonstrators by the police during Tunisia's revolution.
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian court on Thursday sentenced an opposition senator to 1-1/2 years in prison, in absentia, over comments she made about Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Britain charged the two men in absentia with attempted murder and said the suspects were military intelligence officers almost certainly acting on orders from high up in the Russian state.
Browder, who has been repeatedly convicted of tax-related fraud charges in absentia by Russian courts, was detained briefly this summer by Spanish police on an Interpol warrant filed by Russia.
Since he fled to France in 2015 to avoid arrest in one defamation case, Mr Sam Rainsy has been convicted in absentia in two others, both of which attracted jail sentences.
Bermingham, Philippe Moryoussef, a former senior trader who is being tried in absentia, Italian-born Carlo Palombo, Sisse Bohart, a Dane, and Frankfurt-based Deutsche employee Achim Kraemer deny the charge.
One was acquitted, three face a retrial next January after a jury failed to reach a verdict, and two were convicted - although one was tried in absentia and remains in France.
The Quays also began making music videos, of which the most radical is "In Absentia" (2000), a homage to the German graphomaniac Emma Hauck, closely synchronized to music by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
" Some Department of Justice officials with knowledge of the expedited family docket previously raised concerns about the way the Trump administration has described immigrants who have been ordered deported "in absentia.
Yingluck fled the country in August, ahead of a verdict in a negligence trial, but was eventually found guilty and handed down a five-year jail term in absentia in September.
The Dutch plan to prosecute any cases against Russians in their own courts, which, unlike the ICC, can try suspects in absentia—an advantage, since Russia is unlikely to allow extradition.
The report acknowledged, however, that such an idea had several drawbacks, including the fact that North Koreans would likely not be in custody and would have to be tried in absentia.
In February, ICE sent around 2,000 letters to families who already had received final orders of removal by judges in absentia, asking them to self-report to ICE offices by March.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities on Thursday took into custody a former trade minister convicted in absentia for corruption cases, following his extradition from Lebanon, Iraq's corruption watchdog said in a statement.
Like the Vice reporters, Fahmy, Greste, and Mohamed, as well as other Al Jazeera journalists charged in absentia, were accused of colluding with terrorists — in this case, the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
Among children whose cases were filed in fiscal year 2013, less than one percent of children who had attorneys were ordered removed in absentia (for failing to appear for their hearing).
Last year a Revolutionary Court in Tehran tried Karimian in absentia and sentenced him to six years in jail on charges of "acting against national security" and "propaganda against the state".
A British court convicted the two Russians in absentia, but one of them, Andrei Lugovoy, a retired KGB officer, received a medal from Putin and was elected to the Russian parliament.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A former Iraqi trade minister and two senior ministry officials have been sentenced in absentia to seven years in jail on graft charges, a Baghdad court said on Thursday.
Sam Rainsy lives in exile in France and was sentenced in absentia last month to five years in prison for posting a fake government pledge to dissolve the border with Vietnam.
And in July 1999, France tried him in absentia on money-laundering charges, accusing him and his wife, Felicidad Sieiro de Noriega, of channeling $3 million in drug profits to banks.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court sentenced former military dictator Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia on Tuesday on treason charges stemming from his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007.
L) who was convicted in absentia in London last year of participating in a scheme to rig global interest rates has challenged Britain in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Araibi, who played for Bahrain's national soccer team and was a critic of the government, had been convicted of vandalizing a police station and sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia.
The 2,000 individuals, Morgan said, had been ordered to be removed "in absentia" — without appearing in court — and had been notified to present themselves at ICE offices to facilitate a compassionate removal.
An Italian court sentenced in absentia eight former officials of South American military regimes to life in prison for their role in the disappearance of 23 Italians during the 1970s and 453s.
Abaaoud was sentenced to 20 years in prison in absentia in July last year, part of a case known as the Syrian Connection, in which some 113 suspects were handed jail sentences.
Andargachew Tsige was sentenced to death in absentia in 2009 over his role in the opposition group Ginbot 7, leading to his arrest in Yemen five years later and extradition to Ethiopia.
Abaaoud was sentenced to 20 years in prison in absentia in July last year, part of a case known as the Syrian Connection, in which some 30 suspects were handed jail sentences.
Opposition leader Joseph Olengankhoy said the government should also pardon Moise Katumbi, a top presidential candidate who in June was sentenced in absentia to three years in prison for real estate fraud.
"Poor management of this core process leads to additional work for the Court and can result in respondents being ordered removed in absentia through no fault of their own," the report says.
A startling 538 of those orders were issued in absentia, meaning that the final order was given with neither the family facing deportation, nor their representative, in attendance at the court hearing.
Al-Sudany is wanted for at least nine corruption cases and received eight imprisonment sentences in absentia for graft charges related to food import violations, the corruption watchdog said in the statement.
The day of the wedding, the family used the FaceTime app on their phones to help Ms. Sorrentino chat with the bride as she primped and to watch the ceremony in absentia.
Of the 15 people sentenced on Tuesday, six were in the Brussels courtroom at the time; the other nine were tried in absentia because they were on the run, sick or dead.
Sharif, who was ousted by the Supreme Court last year and convicted in absentia of corruption a week ago, arrived in the country to rally his party ahead of the general elections.
Ashmawy has been convicted in absentia to death in Egypt for attacks in Egypt, including a 2014 raid in which 22 Egyptian military border guards were killed near the frontier with Libya.
MH17 trial: In The Hague, four men with ties to the Russian security services are being tried in absentia for the shooting down of a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Federer, even in absentia, said he had kept checking the scores on his phone as Murray dueled with Djokovic down the stretch in November to secure the year-end No. 1 ranking.
The Isaías brothers were convicted in 2012 of embezzlement by an Ecuadorean court and sentenced to prison terms in absentia, since they had been living in South Florida for nearly a decade.
Mr. Wiersum, a 44-year-old father of two, was representing a prosecution witness in a murder case against Mr. Taghi — who is being tried in absentia — and some of his associates.
Killed along with the two Islamic state operatives was Walid Hamman, described as "a suicide attack planner," who was convicted in absentia in Belgium for a plot that was thwarted in 2015.
Sanders' campaign, looking to play up his opposition to wealthy and corporate interests, said the U.S. senator from Vermont was ready to go after Bloomberg and Patrick, both wealthy businessmen, in absentia.
Four have been convicted, including former Deutsche Bank star trader Christian Bittar and ex Barclays trader Phillipe Moryoussef - although the Moroccan-born former trader was tried in absentia and remains in France.
Britain says Moscow used Novichok to try to kill former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury in March and has charged two Russian men in absentia with attempted murder.
Luster had fled from Southern California to Mexico during his rape trial and was convicted in absentia of raping three women after drugging them and videotaping the act, CNN reported at the time.
One source with knowledge of the previous operation said the plan was to target more than 3,000 undocumented families with final removal or in absentia deportation orders in 14 regions across the country.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Swedish prosecutor heading an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange filed a request with a local court on Monday for him to be detained in absentia.
He was then sentenced in absentia to three years in prison for real estate fraud - both charges his supporters said were aimed at preventing him from running in an election to replace Kabila.
The two Russian nationals, identified in court as Eduard Shishmakov and Vladimir Popov and described as Russia's military intelligence officers, were sentenced in absentia to jail terms of 15 and 12 years respectively.
Katumbi, the multi-millionaire former governor of Congo's copper-mining region, declared his candidacy for president in May but was then sentenced in absentia to three years in prison for real estate fraud.
He has been found guilty in absentia in Russia for tax fraud, and sued (unsuccessfully) in British civil court for defamation by one of the Interior Ministry cops allegedly behind the Magnitsky affair.
On the same night that U.S. combat troops withdrew in 2011, Maliki ordered the arrest of Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi and two other Sunni opposition lawmakers, sentencing Hashemi to death in absentia.
Walter Aduviri, 39, the governor of Puno and an indigenous Aymara leader, was found guilty in absentia by a criminal court of disturbing public order, the office of the judiciary said on Twitter.
Later that year, the owner was sentenced in absentia to 26 years in prison, a sentence bound, in the words of Amnesty International, to have "a chilling effect" on media freedom in Pakistan.
Mengistu was found guilty in absentia of genocide in the same trial in 2007, where he and top members of his military government were accused of killing thousands during his 17-year rule.
Mr. Browder was convicted in absentia in Russia of tax fraud after he fled to London and mounted an international campaign against Russia over the killing of his jailed Moscow lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky.
Jordanian national Alaa Omar Sablan and Ibrahim Mohammed Helal, who both work for Al Jazeera, and Asmaa Al Khateeb, a reporter for Rassd, a pro-Muslim Brotherhood news network, were sentenced in absentia.
His office placed Browder on trial in absentia in 2013 for alleged tax evasion, along with the deceased Sergei Magnitsky -- the first time in Russian history that the state has tried a corpse.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) presidential hopeful Moise Katumbi was just recently sentenced to prison in absentia — even as the incumbent government continues to delay scheduling elections that should be held by November.
Last month, a military court sentenced the political analyst Hanin Ghaddar in absentia to six months in prison for comments deemed insulting to the Lebanese Army, in a talk in Washington in 2014.
Now in exile in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Ben Ali has been sentenced in absentia to imprisonment for deaths during the 2011 protests and for corruption and the misuse of several state-owned properties.
A Swedish court rejected a formal request from the prosecutor for Assange to be detained in absentia, a necessary step toward any extradition request, saying an investigation could proceed without a detention order.
The agents also found a lecture by Abdullah el-Faisal, a Jamaican-born Islamic radical who was charged in absentia on Friday by the Manhattan district attorney's office with recruiting would-be terrorists.
Mr. Shakir, the Ottoman official who wrote the incriminating telegram discovered by Mr. Akcam, had fled the country by the time the military tribunal convicted him and sentenced him to death in absentia.
Bilateral ties between Norway and China were only normalised in December following a six-year freeze that began when Liu, by then behind bars, was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in absentia.
ISTANBUL — A dissident Iranian television executive was assassinated in Istanbul on Saturday evening, months after he was sentenced in absentia to a six-year prison term by an Iranian court for spreading propaganda.
Mr. Bouterse was previously convicted by a court in the Netherlands in absentia of drug trafficking in 1999 but avoided an 11-year prison term because he cannot be extradited under Surinamese law.
LONDON, April 10 (Reuters) - A French former Barclays trader, charged by British prosecutors over alleged Euribor interest rate manipulation, will be tried in London in absentia, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Tuesday.
A degree of closure came in 2014, after a Florida trial court awarded Caballero damages in a case that held Colombia's most notorious guerrillas and drug traffickers liable, in absentia, for the brutal attack.
Without a lawyer at the time, he didn't know how to have his case moved to California and as a result a judge in Harlingen, Texas, ordered him deported in absentia in December 2014.
"We will always dream big," added the liquor tycoon who was charged in absentia last month by India's Central Bureau of Investigation with conspiracy and fraud over a loan to his defunct Kingfisher Airlines.
They had networks of agents across the country, and were even rumored to have secret courts in which they convicted regime officials in absentia for their atrocities, before sending operatives to carry out executions.
President Mauricio Macri, who took office in December, has revamped the government department assigned to the bombing investigation and has vowed to introduce legislation that would allow for the trial of suspects in absentia.
Trials in absentia are not explicitly addressed in Argentina's Constitution, but they would violate its provisions for due process, said Raúl Gustavo Ferreyra, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Buenos Aires.
The experts backing Macron include former magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere, whose biggest case was the explosion of UTA flight 772 over the Sahara desert in 1989, in which he convicted six Libyans in absentia.
The PEN America letter was sent before the organization's annual Literary Gala in New York on May 16, when Mr. Naji will be honored in absentia with the group's annual Freedom to Write award.
According to the annual Justice Department yearbook of immigration statistics from fiscal year 2016, the most recent year for which data is available, 25% of immigration court cases were decided "in absentia" -- without defendants.
He was one of the original drafters of the Referendum Movement on the Iranian Constitution and has been sentenced in absentia to a minimum of seven years in prison for his human rights activism.
In February, Amnesty International reported that the Palestinian journalist Hajar Harb had been tried in absentia by Hamas for publishing a report on al-Araby TV detailing alleged corruption in the Ministry of Health.
Mr. Mengistu was found guilty in absentia of genocide in the same trial in 2007, where he and top members of his military government were accused of killing thousands during his 17-year rule.
Six months after he fled, a Tunisian court sentenced him and his wife, Leila Trabelsi, to 35 years in prison and a $66 million fine after a trial in absentia for embezzlement and corruption.
Even though Ashin Wirathu has not made much of an effort to hide, and continues to post videos on social media, the police say they cannot find him and will try him in absentia.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has ordered Italy's former honorary consul to stand trial in absentia over charges of attempting to smuggle thousands of artefacts out of the country, the public prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.
Bashing the media and even taking a whack at Hillary Clinton, he was Donald Trump in absentia, Donald Trump in excelsis, showing his former boss and future patron how scornfully Trumplike he could be.
De Sousa argues that as a naturalized U.S. citizen with close family in India and Portugal she, unlike other U.S. officers convicted in absentia, could not accept a sentence that barred her from travel.
He had been convicted in absentia and sentenced to 10 years in prison for charges including the burning of a police station, which he said occurred while he was playing in a televised match.
But if you take out the removal orders issued in absentia — and look only at cases where families did show up to court — only 40 percent of cases ended with a family ordered deported.
According to Bahraini security dossiers on the men lost at sea reviewed by Reuters, all had been convicted in absentia for attacking police and taking part in riots and were on the run inside Bahrain.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Supreme Court convicted and sentenced former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra in absentia to five years in prison on Wednesday for mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars.
In a 2018 study, two immigration advocacy groups - the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project and Catholic Legal Immigration Network - said they successfully challenged the in absentia orders of 44 of their 46 clients on the docket.
Ronald Noble, the American who served as Interpol's secretary general from 2000 to 2014, has suggested the organization should have refused to accept Meng Hongwei's "potentially involuntary" resignation, presumably continuing to honor him in absentia.
Britain says Moscow used Novichok to try to kill former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury in early March and last week charged two Russian men in absentia with attempted murder.
Mengistu was found guilty in absentia of genocide in the same trial in Ethiopia in 2007 after he and top members of his military government were accused of killing thousands during his 17-year rule.
This week, prosecutors notified Mr. Handoko's family that he had been sentenced in absentia to two years and three months in prison, convicted of violating Indonesia's antipornography law, which includes a ban on striptease performances.
On Tuesday, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal named Ayla Albayrak was sentenced in absentia to two years and one month in prison for allegedly spreading propaganda in support of a Kurdish terrorist group.
Judges ruled the government should bring them to stand trial where they would otherwise be prosecuted in absentia over their role in IS. As long as Dutch authorities do not act, their trials are frozen.
"I was not looking for somebody who is going to roast the president in absentia; that's not fair, and that's not the message we want to get across," Mason said on MSNBC's Morning Joe Tuesday.
According to a Marshall Project report by Julia Preston in July, 70 percent of Central American families' cases are resulting in deportation orders issued "in absentia" — with the immigrants themselves somewhere ICE hasn't found them.
Justice Department data show that while the percentage of immigration court cases completed "in absentia" - when the foreign citizen fails to show - has risen in recent years, the majority of immigrants show up for their hearings.
The government sought to make a distinction between the mothers - sisters-in-law who were convicted in absentia of being Islamic State militants - and the children who officials say cannot be guilty of their parent's actions.
Other Central Americans ordered deported in absentia may not have had a fair chance to plead their asylum case because they did not get adequate information from government bureaucrats explaining their obligation to go to court.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai criminal court has issued a second arrest warrant for former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who fled the country weeks ago before she was sentenced to jail in absentia, police said on Thursday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Friday sentenced British investment fund head William Browder to nine years in prison in absentia after finding him guilty of deliberate bankruptcy and tax evasion, the country's general prosecutor said.
ZAGREB (Reuters) - A Croatian court ordered on Monday the detention of the head of Hungarian energy group MOL, Zsolt Hernadi, who is being tried in Croatia in absentia for allegedly bribing the country's former prime minister.
Mr. Kriket was convicted in absentia in July alongside Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man believed to be the on-the-ground organizer of the Paris attacks, in the same Belgian court case involving a jihadist recruitment network.
Egyptian security forces have arrested several of its reporters and last year a Cairo court recommended the death penalty for two of them, charged in absentia with endangering national security by leaking state secrets to Qatar.
SOFIA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - One of Bulgaria's richest men, gambling tycoon Vasil Bozhkov, has been charged in absentia with extortion and attempted bribery among other crimes, the Balkan country's chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev said on Wednesday.
The former resident of Rancho Mirage was sentenced in absentia in 2017 after he and his wife fled to Israel following his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and filing a false tax return.
Last October, million of euros of assets belonging to Teodorin were ordered seized by a French court that found him guilty in absentia of using money plundered from his country to buy property and luxury cars.
Promoting the First Amendment was, in the end, the safest possible angle for the Correspondents' Association, which liaises with the White House on behalf of its members and was wary of blasting the president in absentia.
Though the moderators valiantly tried to get the two to talk about issues, the primacy of Trump in the GOP extends to his opponents, too, and he took up the bulk of the discussion in absentia.
In a landmark 2009 ruling, 23 Americans, 21 of whom were employed or under contract to the CIA, were convicted in absentia in Italy on kidnapping and other charges in connection with Abu Omar's February 2003 abduction.
"They are very very disappointed by the outcome of today's proceedings and in particular that the verdict, the denial of bail, was handed down in absentia," his daughter-in-law Alexandra Kennett told reporters outside the court.
With Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in absentia suffering from an undisclosed illness, the country's National Bureau of Statistics reported this week that the economy contracted 1.5 percent last year for the first time in nearly 25 years.
Those being removed already had orders of deportation issued against them, either because they lost their asylum claims or in many cases because they never showed up for their court dates and were ordered removed in absentia.
The ruling against Tarique Rahman, who was tried in absentia as he is living in exile in London, dims the future of his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) ahead of the South Asian nation's next election in December.
Massaad has insisted that the charges brought by the RAK government are unfounded, and that an October 2015 trial at which he was convicted in absentia by an RAK court of corruption and fraud had numerous flaws.
Bahrain's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that a 10-year jail sentence imposed on Araibi in absentia by a Bahraini court remained in place and reaffirmed its right to "pursue all necessary legal actions against him".
Her mother, Adeline, was also arrested on charges of sectarian practices and inciting insurrection, based on WhatsApp messages between herself and her sister, who lives outside Rwanda and had been charged in absentia, along with three others.
A Russian court tried and convicted Mr. Glushkov in absentia last year on corruption charges, and he was an associate of the former Russian business oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a Putin critic who died in London in 2013.
She had already been convicted, in absentia, of belonging to a human rights organization and stoking "corruption and prostitution" — an apparent reference to her defense of women arrested on charges of removing the mandatory Muslim head scarf.
Unlike his normal Saturday fare, I was able to find enough gimmes to get me well into the puzzle and, from there, it was just your normal tug-of-war and cursing at Mr. Walden in absentia.
In addition, they have been accused in absentia by conservative sections of the Pakistani media and right-wing trolls as pawns of foreign powers (read India, the eternal enemy) who are waging an information war against Pakistan.
Uniformed men escorted the Sharifs, who were sentenced in absentia on corruption charges last week, off the commercial flight, and a spokesman for their Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party confirmed they were arrested soon afterwards.
His lawyer Barthelemy Mumba Gama told Reuters the court had "flagrantly violated the minimum standards of the process" by trying Katumbi in absentia even though he had received permission from Congo's prosecutor general to leave the country.
If an immigrant fails to appear at court hearings they run the risk of being ordered deported in absentia by an immigration judge, which makes having accurate and detailed information on the forms crucial for asylum-seekers.
According to EOIR's May 2019 Myth vs Facts About Immigration Proceedings, 44 percent of all non-detained removal cases end with an in absentia order of removal because the alien failed to attend his immigration court hearing.
Nevertheless, Bahrain has formally asked Thailand for Mr. Araibi's extradition so he can return to face a 10-year prison sentence for a conviction in absentia on charges that he burned a police station, among other convictions.
Migrant families, who had received final orders of removal by judges in absentia, were sent letters in February from ICE, asking them to self-report to local ICE offices by March to comply with the orders, Morgan said.
When he was caught, Provenzano had already been convicted in absentia for a string of murders, including the 1992 killings of two anti-mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge this week rejected Roman Polanski's latest bid to end his decades-old statutory rape case, denying the filmmaker's request to be sentenced in absentia — or in his absence while he remains abroad.
MADRID, May 9 (Reuters) - The Spanish Constitutional Court has suspended a law that would have allowed the Catalan parliament to vote in former leader Carles Puigdemont as their regional head in absentia, a court spokesman said on Wednesday.
ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court has sentenced a journalist from the Wall Street Journal to two years and one month in prison in absentia on charges of carrying out propaganda for Kurdish militants, the newspaper said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW, Dec 29 (Reuters) - A Russian court on Friday sentenced British investment fund head William Browder to nine years in prison in absentia after finding him guilty of deliberate bankruptcy and tax evasion, the country's general prosecutor said.
Katumbi, who is president of one of Africa&aposs top soccer teams, TP Mazembe, also has been sentenced to three years in prison in absentia, with a $1 million fine, on allegations that he falsely acquired a building.
On the other hand, Weems's Heave installation at the University of Toronto, constructed around a body in absentia, by providing all the indicia of this body's lived life, impels the viewer to read this life as affirmatively Black.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A former Syrian diplomat convicted in absentia of a brutal rape in Switzerland in 2001 has been arrested in Versailles, France, living under a false identity as a refugee, the Geneva prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.
"There are still many people involved who were part of the Zerkani network, who were convicted in absentia — at least five to 10 — and we don't know where they are or what they might do," Mr. Brisard said.
LONDON, July 12 (Reuters) - A French former Barclays trader, who was tried in absentia by a London criminal court, has been convicted by a jury of conspiring to rig global Euribor interest rates in a five-year scam.
Eventual suspects are likely to be tried in absentia in the Netherlands after Russia used its veto to block a U.N. Security Council resolution seeking to create an international tribunal to oversee criminal complaints stemming from the incident.
In 2014, de Sousa was convicted in absentia by an Italian court for participating in the 85033 abduction of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr off a street in Milan and ferrying him to be questioned in Egypt.
Mohamed Abdelhafiz Ahmed Hussein, whom the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement identifies as a member, was among 28 people sentenced in absentia to death in July 2017 for killing Egypt's public prosecutor in the attack, according to state media.
Immigration officials have previously claimed that the high number of in-absentia removal orders issued under the so-called rocket docket policy proves migrants are claiming asylum at the border to gain entry into the U.S. and disappear.
That's a slight drop from fiscal year 2015, when 28 percent of orders were issued in cases where immigrants didn't appear, but an increase from fiscal year 2012, when just 11 percent of orders were issued in absentia.
The abiding atmosphere, encouraged by Trump himself, was always us versus them, and eruptions of collective rage — toward protesters, reporters, Hillary Clinton in absentia — that would have been hard to imagine in pre-Trump American politics were routine.
Mr. Thaksin was ousted in a coup in 2006 and has since been convicted in absentia of corruption-linked crimes, as has his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, another former prime minister, whose government was toppled in the 2014 coup.
Mr. Tamas, a green-card holder, was arrested by immigration authorities after he applied for United States citizenship in 22016 and a background check revealed that he had been convicted in absentia of committing insurance fraud in Romania.
Ternera was arrested in the French Alps on a separate warrant from a Paris court that sentenced him in absentia in 2017 to eight years in prison for membership of a terrorist group, a French judicial source said.
In February, ICE sent around 2,000 letters to families who already had received final orders of removal by judges in absentia, asking them to self-report to local ICE offices by March to comply with the orders, Morgan said.
Milan Radonjic, the-then chief of State Security's Belgrade department was also sentenced to 30 years, while operatives Ratko Romic and Milan Kurak, who is at large and sentenced in absentia, were given 20 years for an aggravated murder.
He participated in the bombing of Western embassies in Kuwait and the attempted assassination of that country&aposs emir in the early 1980s, for which he was convicted in absentia and added to the U.S. list of designated terrorists.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Two former senior officials of the Ras al-Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for embezzlement, according to court documents released on Tuesday.
Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, were found slumped on a public bench in the English city of Salisbury on March 4 last year, and Britain has charged two Russians in absentia with their attempted murder.
The appeal, he said, would be based on the fact that there is no certainty his client will get a retrial in Italy, while the Portuguese Constitution guarantees a retrial in cases where the verdict is rendered in absentia.
The party's founder, ousted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, facing a conviction in absentia on corruption charges, was jailed last week when he returned to the country seeking to revitalize the PML-N ahead of the July 25 vote.
According to the annual Justice Department yearbook of immigration statistics from fiscal year 2100, the most recent year for which data is available, 2000% of immigration court cases were decided "in absentia" -- meaning the immigrant wasn't present in court.
However, Tamas was arrested by immigration authorities after he applied for U.S. citizenship in 2016 and was discovered to have had been convicted in absentia of committing insurance fraud in Romania following a background check, according to the Times.
Mr. Zubaydah "most actively plotted attacks against Israel," the profile also said, was convicted in absentia on terrorism-related charges in Jordan and took an active role in discussing possible further attacks against the United States after 9/11.
Hailed as a hero by some for triggering investigations in several countries, Swiss courts sentenced Falciani in absentia to five years in jail for leaking details of HSBC clients, many of whom he said he suspected were evading tax.
In the same case, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks later killed by French police, got 20 years, also in absentia, while Khalid Zerkani, a Moroccan recruiter of jihadis in Europe, was jailed for 12 years.
The Sharifs were convicted in absentia last week and sentenced to lengthy prison terms in connection with their ownership of expensive properties in London, a case they say was manufactured by their political foes and the country's powerful military.
The court also warned Mr. Torrent and other senior members of the regional parliament that they could face criminal charges if they allowed a vote in absentia — possibly using a video link to Belgium — as Mr. Puigdemont had requested.
In 2011, a Tunisian court sentenced Ben Ali in absentia to 35 years in prison on charges ranging from corruption to torture, and in 2012 a military court sentenced him to another 20 years for inciting "murder and looting".
The court also handed 20-year jail sentences in absentia to Khaled Nazzar, a former defense minister, and his son Lotfi, both believed to be in Spain and subject to an international arrest warrant, it said in a statement.
The court also handed 20-year jail sentences in absentia to Khaled Nazzar, a former defense minister, and his son Lotfi, both believed to be in Spain and subject to an international arrest warrant, it said in a statement.
PARIS, July 1 (Reuters) - A French former trader with Barclays who was convicted in absentia in London last year of participating in a scheme to rig global interest rates has challenged Britain in the European Court of Human Rights.
That's a much bigger swing than immigration cases overall saw: In fiscal years 46 and 2016, 70 percent of all cases ended in removal orders, but taking out the in absentia orders drops the removal rate to 59 percent.
But the Belgian government sought to make a distinction between the mothers, who were convicted last year in absentia of being members of Islamic State, and the children who officials say cannot be guilty of acts committed by their parents.
Five suspects - all linked to the Hezbollah political party - are on trial in absentia at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was set up to investigate and prosecute the people behind the waterfront bomb blast which killed Hariri and 21 others.
The new push comes after Mallya was charged in absentia last month by the Central Bureau of Investigation - along with nine former executives from the failed Kingfisher Airlines and IDBI Bank Ltd - over a 9 billion rupee ($135 million) loan.
In a landmark 2009 ruling, Italian prosecutor Armando Spataro won in absentia convictions against 503 Americans, 25 of who were employed or under contract to the CIA, on kidnapping and other charges in connection with Abu Omar's February 2003 abduction.
He was a star witness in absentia this week at a parliamentary hearing in London, when an academic shared recordings of him speaking admiringly of the oldest and simplest way of shaping public opinion: stirring up resentment toward a minority group.
Mohamed Yacine Aknouche, 43, was once a Europe-based affiliate of Algeria's Islamic Armed Group (GIA), and was sentenced in absentia by a French court in 20143 to eight years prison, said the source, who asked not to be named.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is seeking to prosecute ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for graft under a law that allows politicians to be tried in absentia, an official said on Tuesday, months after Thaksin's sister was sentenced to jail in her absence.
The 69-year old was arrested in the French Alps on a separate warrant from a Paris court that sentenced him in absentia in 2017 to eight years in prison for membership of a terrorist group, a French judicial source said.
DUBAI, May 20073 (Reuters) - Two former senior officials of the Ras al-Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for embezzlement, according to court documents released on Tuesday.
First, Merkley has ideas for other reforms—such as a "talking filibuster" requiring senators preventing a vote to actually stay on the floor arguing against it (as opposed to today's "virtual filibuster," which allows senators to oppose legislation in absentia).
Geimer, 54, has long-forgiven Polanski for having sex with her in 1977 while she was 19773, and said that Polanski should be sentenced in absentia to time served in part to end the scrutiny she has faced in the case.
Despite his victory in The Hague, Gbagbo faces a possible 20-year prison sentence in Ivory Coast based on a conviction in absentia last January for misappropriating funds from the central bank of the eight-nation West African CFA franc zone.
I led a multinational team of lawyers in prosecuting those officers in absentia for more than 2628,28500 cases of murder and forced disappearance, and for the torture of more than 6900,2628 survivors of Pinochet's years as dictator of Chile (28503-22019).
In a separate ruling, a court sentenced an activist in absentia to 20 years in jail for insulting the emir, publishing false information and insulting the judiciary, local media reported, in one of the heaviest prison sentences of its kind.
Three others were detained on Friday following the arrest overnight in France of Reda Kriket, a 34-year-old Frenchman sentenced to 10 years in absentia in Brussels last July as part of an Islamist recruiting network dubbed the Syrian Connection.
The government asked Spain's Constitutional Court to declare invalid a Catalan law approved recently by separatist legislators that could have allowed Mr. Puigdemont to be voted into office in absentia and then read his acceptance speech by videoconference from Germany.
LAHORE, Pakistan — Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was convicted and sentenced to prison in absentia by a Pakistani anticorruption court on Friday, in a verdict that is likely to further disrupt an already chaotic campaign for national elections this month.
Roger Torrent, the pro-independence speaker of the Catalan Parliament, is pushing for lawmakers to elect Mr. Puigdemont in absentia, though the former president has recently said he is no longer a candidate; opposition lawmakers want Mr. Torrent to resign, instead.
Still, the fact that no one called out those two leading candidates in absentia — even Ms. Warren noted her general agreement with Mr. Sanders on health care — indicates that the Democrats are still reluctant to engage with each other more forcefully.
"Vasil Bozhkov has been charged in absentia on seven charges, including organising a crime group, extortion, attempted bribery of an official and incitement to commit criminal offences," Geshev told reporters, adding that a European arrest warrant had been issued for Bozhkov.
According to Mr. Guzmán's lawyers, the public defenders Michelle Gelernt and Michael Schneider, Mexican officials initially agreed to extradite Mr. Guzmán to face charges only in Texas or California, two of the seven federal districts where had been indicted in absentia.
Sharif and his daughter were arrested in July on their return to Pakistan from the UK a week after a court found them guilty in absentia of corruption-related charges and sentenced them to 10 and seven years in prison, respectively.
"The process of abandoning the 'philosophy of struggle' was also a process of gradual weakening of the enemy mentality and elimination of the psychology of hatred," Liu wrote in a courtroom statement that would become his Nobel lecture (delivered in absentia).
Much of the hearing focused on Mr. Sessions's long record as a prosecutor and a senator, but Mr. Trump proved a dominant figure in absentia for much of the debate as Democrats sought to question the president-elect by proxy.
Jean-Jacques Susini, a fiery leader of a right-wing terrorist group that opposed Algerian independence from France who was twice condemned to death in absentia for plots to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle of France, died on July 3.
"I was not looking for somebody who is going to roast the president in absentia; that's not fair and that's not the message we want to get across," Jeff Mason, the president of the correspondents' association, said Tuesday morning on MSNBC.
And if you look at federal records, you see that the number of asylum seekers that have their cases go through the system and are adjudicated, a large number of them are decided in absentia, which they just never show up for them.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain charged two Russians in absentia on Wednesday with the attempted murder of a former Russian spy and his daughter, and said the suspects were military intelligence officers almost certainly acting on orders from high up in the Russian state.
He was arrested while vacationing in Thailand in November due to an Interpol notice in which Bahrain sought his custody after he was sentenced in absentia in 2014 to 10 years in prison for allegedly vandalizing a police station -- a charge he denies.
Sabrina de Sousa is one of 26 people convicted by Italy in absentia over the 2003 abduction of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, but the only one to spend any time in prison for the operation, in which she denies involvement.
Former ICE director Mark Morgan told reporters last month that those who had been ordered removed without appearing in court — otherwise known as in absentia — had been given an adequate level of due process and a chance to make their case in court.
A week earlier Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB), an anti-graft court, had sentenced Mr Sharif, in absentia, to ten years in prison for corruption in connection with the purchase of luxury apartments in London's Park Lane by members of his family.
Wang Aili, director of the Criminal Law Office with parliament's Legal Affairs Commission, told a news briefing that those who could be tried in absentia would include corruption suspects and those wanted for harming national security or for involvement in terror cases.
TBILISI (Reuters) - A Georgian court sentenced former leader Mikheil Saakashvili in absentia to six years in prison on Thursday for abuse of power and seeking to cover up evidence about the beating of an opposition member of parliament when he was president.
Anglo-Italian Palombo; Moryoussef, a Frenchman who is being tried in absentia; Briton Colin Bermingham;, Sisse Bohart, a Dane; and German Achim Kraemer each deny one charge of conspiracy to defraud by dishonestly manipulating Brussels-based Euribor rates between 4533 and 2009.
Pakistan's caretaker government launched a crackdown on political gatherings on Friday as Sharif, who was ousted by the Supreme Court last year and convicted in absentia of corruption a week ago, flew back to rally his party ahead of the general elections.
Bakari's parents saw his alleged killers in court — six of whom were present last week with the seventh expected to attend Thursday (two others left the country and are being tried in absentia) — but did not let that dominate their attention, Jill says.
Pakistan's caretaker government launched a crackdown on political gatherings on Friday as Sharif, who was ousted by the Supreme Court last year and convicted in absentia of corruption a week ago, was flying back to rally his party ahead of the general elections.
MADRID (Reuters) - The Catalan regional parliament on Friday approved a law giving members the right to vote for a leader in absentia, a move aimed at allowing former head Carles Puigdemont to be voted leader even though he is in self-imposed exile.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The head of an Iranian satellite television network who last year was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison by a Tehran court was shot dead in Istanbul together with a business partner, Turkey's Dogan news agency said on Sunday.
Katumbi, the former governor of Democratic Republic of Congo's copper-mining Katanga region, was sentenced in absentia to three years in prison in June 2016, shortly after defecting from Kabila's ruling party and announcing he would run for president later that year.
Stadlen was charged in absentia on Wednesday with laundering a total of 14.3 million ringgit ($3.5 million) that were proceeds from illegal activities and had been deposited in the client account of a law firm that prosecutors claimed received money from Najib.
The Russians, who were tried in absentia and are believed to be in Russia, "knowingly tried to terrorize Montenegrins, attack others, threaten and hurt basic constitutional and social structures," the judge, Susana Mugosa, said on Thursday in court in Podgorica, the capital.
In terms of choreographic invention, the evening's two solos — the yearning "Ave Maria" for Ms. Osipova, by the Japanese choreographer Yuka Oishi; the brooding "In Absentia" for Mr. Hallberg, by the Danish choreographer Kim Brandstrup — paled in comparison to their finale together.
DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian poet detained on Friday on arrival back in Tehran has been released on bail after being informed she had been convicted and sentenced in absentia on charges related to her cultural activities, a relative told Reuters on Sunday.
In 1993, General García Meza was finally convicted in absentia of genocide, sedition, corruption and other crimes, including the illegal sale of diaries belonging to the leftist Cuban guerrilla leader Che Guevara, who had been captured and killed in Bolivia in 1967.
The 60-year-old is one of 26 people convicted by Italy in absentia over the 2003 abduction of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, but the only one to spend any time in prison for an operation in which she denies involvement.
KINSHASA June 22 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo opposition presidential candidate Moise Katumbi was sentenced in absentia to three years in prison and fined $1 million on Wednesday after being convicted of selling a house he did not own, his lawyer said.
PARAMARIBO (Reuters) - President Desi Bouterse said he was victim of a "political game" when he returned to Suriname on Sunday after a court found him guilty of murder in absentia for the 1982 execution of 15 activists in the former Dutch colony.
Later, Ms. Rogozan said, they would learn that Mr. Tamas had been convicted in absentia of fraud in Romania, a crime that appears to have occurred, she said, when a friend used his name to make multiple phony claims to an auto insurer.
The two Al-Jazeera employees — identified by the judge as news producer Alaa Omar Mohammed and news editor Ibrahim Mohammed Hilal — were sentenced in absentia along with Asmaa al-Khateib, who worked for Rasd, a media network widely suspected of links to Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.
Besides any danger they might face back home, there is another significant downside to leaving: If migrants do not show up for a U.S. court hearing, they can be ordered deported "in absentia," reducing their odds of ever being granted refuge in the United States.
Reports in the Belgian news media said Mr. Akrouh went to Syria and was sentenced to five years in absentia last summer in the same court case in which Mr. Abaaoud was sentenced to 20 years in prison for recruiting for the Islamic State.
The council and the armed group agreed on "amnesty for all political detainees, dropping death sentences handed in absentia against leaders of armed movements, as well as opening paths and corridors to deliver humanitarian aid to war-affected people in conflict zones," SUNA said.
Official sources who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed a report by Algerian state news agency APS saying that Beghal, who was convicted in absentia in Algeria in 2003 of belonging to a terrorist group, would be retried now that he was in the country.
The Portuguese Supreme Court has upheld a decision to extradite to Italy a former C.I.A. officer who was convicted in absentia in connection with the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003, as the administration of George W. Bush ordered renditions after the Sept.
Unmoved by Mr. Pugachev's claims that his life could be in danger, a High Court judge, Vivien Rose, in February sentenced him in absentia to two years in prison for contempt of court and ordered him to pay 375,000 pounds, or about $20113,000, in costs.
According to previous ICE Director Mark Morgan, who spoke about the planned raids in June (before their postponement), the raid would target approximately 2,000 Central American families who received removal orders "in absentia" — meaning they weren't even present at hearings where they were ordered deported.
KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian court on Thursday sentenced former president Viktor Yanukovich in absentia to 13 years in jail on treason charges, a judge said, saying his conduct in office had opened the door to Russia's annexation of Crimea and conflict in eastern Ukraine.
At the same time, the intensity of Mike's feelings for Eleven — and vice versa — grew in absentia, driven by his conviction that she was alive somewhere and her determination to step back out into the world, despite Hopper's insistence that she never leave the cabin.
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities on Sunday arrested the son–in-law of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was on Friday sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison over a corruption ruling linked to his family's purchase of luxury flats in London.
But you can be sure that Mr. Trump won't escape roasting, even in absentia, at this alternative gala presented by "Full Frontal With Samantha Bee" and hosted at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington by Ms. Bee, with proceeds going to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Immigration attorneys say people can still appeal for delays on a final deportation order while they apply for refugee or other legal status, even if the order was issued in absentia by a judge because they did not show up for an immigration hearing.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Charles Ble Goude, an ally of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, has been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison by a court in Abidjan for his role in the civil war that followed the 2010 presidential election, his lawyers said.
DUBAI (Reuters) - A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a Lebanese man and his wife to death after they were convicted in absentia of killing a Filipina maid in a case that triggered a crisis between the Philippines and the Gulf Arab state, Kuwaiti newspapers reported on Sunday.
He was due for release on parole in 2007, but he was held pending a decision on a French extradition request -- a Paris court had convicted Noriega in absentia in 1999 on charges that he had laundered $2.8 million in drug money by buying property in France.
PARIS (Reuters) - French prosecutors said on Tuesday they were pushing for a six-month suspended prison sentence for the king of Saudi Arabia's daughter, as she went on trial in absentia in a case involving the beating of a workman in her luxury flat in Paris.
With similar goals in mind, the fashion designer Thom Browne sent his retail director Lucas Langellier to bid for him in absentia on nickel silver ice stands by the Huxtables and the midnight-blue sofas Philip Johnson designed for the restaurant, on which Mr. Browne customarily sat.
He was fairly tried in open court in Dhaka and convicted in absentia on charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, even though his former military rank as a lieutenant colonel would have allowed for a court-martial, a far quicker and less transparent process.
In Kyrgyzstan, Maxim Bakiyev was convicted in absentia, in a series of cases over 2013 and 2014, for attempted murder, embezzlement of millions in state funds, illegal privatization of public land and corruption in selling off state assets; he received sentences varying from 25 years to life.
The Rams may be the team that returned to Los Angeles, but the Raiders fans are the ones who are celebrating, even if their team is in absentia — in Oakland, where it has spent most of its existence, except for a 13-year stay in Southern California.
Industry sources say Brunei has been trying to divest its JPMC holding after former CEO Walid Kurdi, a relative of the royal family who fled the country in 2012, was given a 22 year prison sentence in absentia on charges of embezzlement of millions of dollars.
ROME — A 10-year legal battle over the "extraordinary rendition" of a terrorism suspect by American intelligence agents seemed to draw nearer to resolution on Tuesday, when the president of Italy commuted part of a prison sentence that one former C.I.A. officer had been given in absentia.
" Last year, the Trump administration developed an expedited legal process for migrant families, which, according to the Post, fast-tracked "the cases of thousands of families in major cities, obtaining 'in absentia' deportation orders for thousands of families that did not show up for their court hearings.
And even if WHCA president Jeff Mason insisted on Tuesday that he "was not looking for somebody who is going to roast the president in absentia," it's hard not to read the White House Correspondents' Association's final choice of host as a sly stroke of brilliance.
In fiscal year 288, the last year for which full statistics are available, slightly more than a quarter of all cases decided in immigration courts ended with an order of deportation issued because the defendant hadn't shown up to court (known as an in absentia order).
Ousted as prime minister last year by the Supreme Court over some undeclared income, Nawaz Sharif was in London with Kulsoom this year when a separate anti-graft court handed him a 10-year jail term in absentia over the ownership of luxury flats in London in the 1990s.
If June can find some way to spin Serena Joy's in absentia rule into something that can help the Handmaids, she will, but with Serena Joy bottlenecking the trickle of influence granted to them, it will be an uphill battle — that is, if the battle comes at all.
"There have been a number of medical historians in the past, since the mid-1960s, who have diagnosed Jane Austen in absentia and who have used new medical knowledge as it has become available to glance back at the death of Austen, who did die prematurely," Barchas said.
Unlike other bank whistleblowers in Switzerland, such as Hervé Falciani, who fled to France after exposing tax-dodging through HSBC in 2300 (and has received a five-year sentence in absentia), Mr Elmer insisted on staying even though he did not have to—Germany offered him witness protection.
An Ethiopian court sentenced the defendant to death, in absentia, in 2007 for his role in what was called the "red terror", which the communist military junta of Mengistu conducted after the ousting of the Ethiopian emperor, Haile Selassie, in 1974, the national prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Mr. Vashadze, who is backed by a coalition that includes the United National Movement that was founded by Mr. Saakashvili, says the former president, who was stripped of his citizenship in 2015 and was sentenced in absentia for abuse of power, should be allowed to return to Georgia.
Until this month, Mr. Torra was a second-tier politician who was mostly known as a longstanding backer of Catalan independence and a staunch ally of Mr. Puigdemont, who chose him as a replacement after the Constitutional Court barred his attempt to get re-elected in absentia, from Germany.
There aren't separate in absentia statistics just for asylum-seekers caught entering the US. But statistics suggest that relatively few of the people who say they're seeking asylum when they're caught by a Border Patrol agent end up seeing the process of applying for asylum through to the end.
Princess Hassa bint Salman is due to go on trial in absentia on Tuesday on charges of complicity to violence with a weapon and complicity to kidnap an Egyptian-born artisan who was carrying out repairs at her father's residence on the exclusive Avenue Foch in September 2016.
An appeals court in Lisbon, Portugal issued a decision Wednesday to extradite to Italy a former CIA counterterrorism officer who was one of nearly two-dozen agency operatives prosecuted and convicted on kidnapping charges in absentia in Milan in connection with the notorious rendition of a radical Egyptian cleric in 2003.
He was sentenced in absentia to seven years in prison by a French court last year and remains a wanted man, but here in Israel, he lives openly and talked about his criminal exploits with pride during four hours of interviews with the AP. "It's the power of persuasion," he said.
After a trial that lasted more than two years, lead judge Evelina Canale said eight men were convicted in absentia, including former Bolivian President Luis Garcia, now 87 and serving a 30-year prison sentence in Bolivia for crimes committed during his government, and former Peruvian President Francisco Morales, now 95.
"We are studying calling for protests and moving the street against austerity and new taxes," said Ali Al Asawad, a leader of closed opposition group al-Wefaq, who lives in self-imposed exile in London and has been sentenced in absentia to life in prison on espionage charges, which he denies.
Over the course of the week, Krishnaswami, along with other observers, sat in on dozens of master calendar hearings, the first hearing in removal proceedings, and watched as migrants were either provided a date for their next hearing or in the case of those who didn't show, ordered removed in absentia.

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