Lawyers for the 69-year-old had asked the Paris Appeal Court to revoke his sentence of one year in jail with six months suspended, but judges on Wednesday upheld the ruling.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is due to learn the outcome on Wednesday of an appeal of his one-year sentence for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid. The decision of the court in Paris is expected in the early afternoon. A more lenient judgement than what was handed to him in the first instance is possible. Two years ago, the conservative politician was convicted and sentenced to one year of house arrest with an ankle bracelet monitor. That was tougher than th
Israel welcomed a planned investigation into the allegations that members of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) were involved in the October 7 killings on Friday. "The establishment of an independent review group to assess UNRWA’s neutrality following the publication of information indicating the participation of agency employees in terror activities is a positive step, although it is long overdue," an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
Israel welcomed a planned investigation into the allegations that members of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) were involved in the October 7 killings on Friday. "The establishment of an independent review group to assess UNRWA’s neutrality following the publication of information indicating the participation of agency employees in terror activities is a positive step, although it is long overdue," an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
Former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna will lead a panel charged with investigating allegations levelled by Israel against the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the United Nations said on Monday. Colonna will work together with experts from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Sweden, the Michelsen Institute in Norway and the Danish Institute for Human Rights to investigate allegations against the agency. Israel has accused several UNRWA employees