Lower house of parliament a controversial bill that sets religion as the criteria for granting citizenship to foreign and. Leader Aung Sun Suu Kyi is headed to the Uns Highest Court in the netherlands to defend her country against genocide charges the west african state of gambia launched the 1st bid to bring myanmar to International Justice or a military crackdown on muslim its use is backed by the 57 Nation Organization of islamic cooperation more than 700000 were forced to flee to neighboring bangladesh back in 2017 protests by opponents and supporters are expected outside the court ahead of you cheese arrival of hundreds in myanmars largest city youngun rallying in support of him from tucci as she faces the court crowds of people carried posters and flags to show their solidarity offices how team will be defending men must National Interests at the course. Well the un has accused me of carrying out mass rape killings and the banning of homes during its military Campaign Says that w
Surrounding multiple deaths in the white island for kind of corruption. Now myanmars leader Aung San Suu Kyi has just arrived at the uns top court in the netherlands to defend her country against genocide charges now the west african state of gambia launched a bid to bring me to International Justice for military crackdown on muslims youre watching live pictures now from the hague well the suses backed by the 757 Nation Organization for islamic cooperation more than 700000 rangar were forced to flee to neighboring bangladesh back in 2017100 miles largest city yangon a rallying in support. As she faces the court crowds of people carried posters and flags to show their solidarity yukis office says her team will be defending myanmars. National interests at the court well the United Nations has accused me of carrying out mass rape killings in the burning of homes during its military campaign meanwhile says it was conducting a legitimate counterterrorism response and denies the charges of g
Trump later on tuesday im going to get your scope at the sports the World Antidoping Agency finds itself facing criticism from all sides after handing russia a 4 year ban from sports. Thank you very much for joining us we begin this news hour in algeria where a court has sentenced to former Prime Ministers to long prison terms for corruption i made or height we yeah he was sentenced to 15 years and his predecessor abdel to 12 the charges came from sweeping investigations into fraud allegations after the former president up there as hes beautifully stepped down in april lets bring in who is covered algeria extensively for us here on aljazeera a significant ruling that comes just 2 days before the election tell us 1st up. Whos been convicted and why folly it is quite significant of the same time its unprecedented you have 3 people widely considered by the alleged by the algerians as the main pillars of the political elite in algeria during the time of former president of the disease but
A controversial bill that sets religion as the criteria for granting citizenship to foreigners. Now a court in algeria has sentenced 2 former Prime Ministers to long prison terms for corruption. Was given 15 years and his predecessor. 12 the charges came from sweeping fraud investigations after the former president. Stepped down in april but we can speak to a new father who is the executive director of the nordica center for conflict transformation he joins us now on skype from robots mr brigitte stop with these sentences i understand prosecutors were asking for 20 years for these true former Prime Ministers and these are less than that so how are these punishments being views. 1st of all we have to mention that this is the 3rd this is the 1st time in our jury Prime Ministers are tried since the independence of the country what is important to mention also east peace trials. Are selective. The informal spin course that is also selective and this comes in time when elections has already
Surrounding multiple deaths and the white island volcanic eruption. Leader Aung San Suu Kyi she is headed to the Uns Highest Court in the netherlands to defend her country against genocide charges the west african state of gambia launched the fast bid to bring me to International Justice over a military crackdown on range of muslims more than 700000 russian job were forced to flee to neighboring bangladesh in 2017 protests by opponents and supporters are expected outside the court ahead of her arrival while the un has accused me of carrying out mass rape killings and the banning of her joining that military Campaign Memo says it was conducting a legitimate counterterrorism response and denies the charges of genocide meanwhile danby of legal team is asking the court to impose protections for the region before the case. Be had in full recent attempts to repatriate tens of thousands of refugees have failed with many still fearing for their safety but we have 2 correspondents covering this