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'No Witnesses' To Implicate MH17 Suspects

Dutch lawyers representing a suspect accused of downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014 said Monday that no witnesses exist who could implicate their client in the incident in which 298 people died.The case about the ill-fated flight, shot down over war-torn Ukraine on 17 July that year, took on a new dimension as hearings resumed near Schiphol airport to the backdrop of Russia's invasion into its neighbour almost two weeks ago."Not a single witness can testify to our client&#

8 March 2022
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Myanmar Court Delays Verdict In Suu Kyi Trial

A Myanmar junta court on Tuesday postponed giving a verdict in the trial of deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who faces a catalogue of charges that could see her jailed for decades.The Nobel laureate has been detained since the generals ousted her government in the early hours of 1 February, ending the Southeast Asian country's brief democratic interlude.More than 1,200 people have been killed and over 10,000 arrested in a crackdown on dissent, according to a local monitoring gro

1 December 2021
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Ousted Myanmar President Testifies About Coup

Myanmar's ousted president described on Tuesday turning down a deal to vacate his seat and save himself in the early moments of the February coup that snuffed out his country's short-lived democratic experiment, his lawyer said.Win Myint, who was detained along with civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, made the comments as he testified for the first time at his trial for incitement in a junta court.The 69-year-old recounted how two senior army officers entered his room in the early hou

13 October 2021
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Cambodia Jails Union Leader Over Border Comments

A Cambodian court on Wednesday jailed outspoken union leader Rong Chhun for two years on incitement charges relating to comments about the country's border, the latest legal case activists say is aimed at cracking down on opposition voices. Rong Chhun, the leader of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, was arrested in July last year after accusing the government of "irregularities" over the demarcation of the eastern border with Vietnam. The demarcation proc

19 August 2021
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HK Convicts Man In First National Security Trial

A Hong Kong court convicted a former waiter of terrorism and inciting secession on Tuesday in the first trial conducted under a national security law that was imposed by China to stamp out dissent.The watershed ruling lays down a new marker in the city's changing legal landscape and confirms that certain political slogans are now outlawed in the international finance hub. Tong Ying-kit, 24, was charged with secession and terrorism after he drove a motorbike into three police off

27 July 2021
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi In Court On Sedition Charges

Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in a junta court again Tuesday on trial for sedition and for flouting COVID restrictions during an election her ousted party won in a landslide.A mass uprising in Myanmar against a February military putsch has been met with a brutal crackdown that has killed more than 870 civilians, according to a local monitoring group.Under house arrest and invisible apart from a handful of court appearances, Suu Kyi has been hit with an eclectic raft of char

23 June 2021
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Junta Hits Suu Kyi With Graft Charge

The Myanmar junta has hit deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi with corruption charges over claims she accepted illegal payments of gold and more than half a million dollars in cash, state media reported Thursday.The country has been in turmoil since the generals ousted Suu Kyi on 1 February, with more than 850 civilians killed in a brutal crackdown by security forces on near-daily protests against the coup.The 75-year-old Nobel laureate, who has been in custody since the putsch, is facin

11 June 2021
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Missile Must Have Downed Flight MH17: Judges

Dutch judges said Monday they wanted relatives of victims to finally have "clarity" about the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine as the trial of four suspects entered a key phase.Some relatives were in court for the start of a week in which judges will at last examine evidence against the three Russians and one Ukrainian, who are on trial in absentia over the July 2014 disaster.The trial formally began in March 2020 but has until now dealt with legal arguments, ma

9 June 2021
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi To Go On Trial Next Week

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will go on trial next week, her lawyer said Monday, with the Nobel laureate facing an eclectic raft of charges, from possessing unlicensed walkie-talkies to flouting coronavirus restrictions during elections last year.Myanmar has been in uproar since Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) government were ousted in a 1 February coup, with near-daily protests and a nationwide civil disobedience movement.Almost 850 people have been killed by th

8 June 2021
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Suu Kyi's Lawyer Soldiers On 'In Defence Of Democracy'

Staying in different lodgings each night to evade arrest, the lawyer representing Aung San Suu Kyi says her trial will help determine whether Myanmar's people again become "slaves" of the military.Soldiers raided the civilian leader's residence and detained her in pre-dawn raids three weeks ago, effectively ending Myanmar's 10-year experiment with democracy. The new military regime has pledged to hold elections in a year, but for now the junta wields power ov

24 February 2021
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Vietnam Truck Tragedy Families Speak Out A Year On

Le Minh Tuan has curled up in the bed of his deceased son every night since the young man suffocated in a truck in Britain alongside dozens of other Vietnamese migrants one year ago.Four men are on trial in London over the deaths of the 39 Vietnamese men and women, facing various charges including manslaughter and conspiracy to smuggle people.But Tuan - like many of their grieving families - does not hold them responsible for the appalling tragedy."I don't blame anyone," he sai

13 October 2020
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