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The National Financial Prosecutor's Office demanded on Monday against Rachida Dati four years in prison, two years of which were closed with electronic bracelet and five years of ineligibility and prohibition of the civil service with provisional execution. He also demanded four years in prison against the former boss of Renault-Nissan Carlos Ghosn, on the run in Lebanon, with the continued arrest warrant.
The two sides appointed a committee to review selection of candidates for Supreme Court of Justice.
After 22 years without execution, Lebanon abolished the death penalty. Minister of Justice and long-time craftsman of this fight, Ibrahim Najjar tells France 24 about the "miracle" of a consensus long deemed impossible, his refusal to sign executions and the challenges that follow abolition.
A first hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, September 23rd in Washington, D.C., as part of the lawsuits brought by CNN, MS and Politico, three media outlets, against their exclusion from the White House by Donald Trump. The U.S. Department of Justice still martes, in a submission filed on Tuesday, September 22, that "access to the White House is a privilege, not a right". The details of Anne Corpet, an international columnist in France 24.
The Department of Justice also argued President Trump was motivated by national security concerns in banning MS NOW, CNN and Politico from the White House.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one week after the opposition march, questions persist about violence and the presence of machetes in the procession. The opposition claims that one person died and several injured. An investigation was ordered by the Department of Justice.
Germany has asked the International Court of Justice to dismiss the case on jurisdiction grounds. It also said its arms exports to Israel were documented, published, and subject to more stringent checks than most.
The police have not yet established a link between these deaths and a serial killer, but they are studying this possibility.
U.S. President Donald Trump promised to seek accountability for those who pursued legal cases against him when he was out of office, speaking Friday at the Justice Department. "Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice. But I stand before you today to declare that those days are over, and they are never going to come back. They're never coming back," Trump said. During his years out of office, the department twice indicted Trump on charges that he illegally stored classified documents at his Florida estate and that he worked to overturn the results of
