That company is the saudio oil giant saudi aramco, and its feeling the effects of lower oil prices, lower than expected demand from china, and thinner Profit Margins for refining oil. Between april and june, the company made a Profit Ofjust over 30 billion, lot of money by anyone s metric, but significantly down from more than the 48 billion it made in the same period a year ago. The main reason is, as you can see here, that oil prices during the period were at the lowest point in the last year, as the boost they got from russias invasion of ukraine wore off. And last week, in an effort to keep them that way, saudi arabia said it would only produce nine Million Barrels a day. That extended Production Cuts by the 0pec group of big oil producers, who profit more from a higher price. When it comes to saudi aramco, those higher prices mean higher Dividend Payments for shareholders, and its boosted those to nearly 30 billion in the current period. So i put it to our middle east Business Cor
of not declaring money gained from selling state gifts. does he deny doing that? yes, of course, he denied that. our main case has been that the evidence has not been considered properly and appreciated properly. and the judge, quite shockingly, in the middle of hearing the arguments, just retired in his room and came back after 30 minutes with a 30 page written judgment, handing down conviction of three years along with sentence. now, this is indeed very shocking because the trial was still under process and he denied imran khan producing defence evidence, which was his right. so in terms of legal moves, what is your next legal move in that case? well, it s a short sentence of three years, and under the normal circumstances we would file an appeal in the high court for suspending the sentence. now, the difficulty is during the past three days, almost two and a half days, lawyers as well were denied access,
to strasbourg, to the european court of human rights, and that court enforces and interprets the european convention on human rights, which is an international treaty signed by the uk and 46 other european states. this morning, in a written judgment, thejudges in strasbourg have said the case brought by mr lee was inadmissible and therefore have dismissed it. they said that at no point in the proceedings in the uk courts did mr lee invoke his rights under the european convention and therefore, to quote directly, by relying solely on domestic law, mr lee had deprived the domestic courts of the opportunity to address any convention issues raised, instead asking the european court to usurp the role of the domestic courts. judges say mr lee failed to exhaust domestic remedies, so the application was inadmissible. having successfully unfolded its sun shield,
Das vom Basler Appellationsgericht gefällte Urteil im Berufungsverfahren zur Vergewaltigung an der Elsässerstrasse in Basel wirft hohe Wellen. In der …