WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced on Wednesday to about 3-1/2 more years in prison for charges arising from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. election, with the judge giving him a stern lecture about his lies and criminal behavior.The sentence of 73 months in prison imposed by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington came six days after a different judge gave Manafort a lenient term of 47 months - just under four years - in prison in a separate case in Virginia, with credit for nine months he already has spent behind bars.Jackson said 30 months of her sentence will run at the same time as the sentence in the Virginia case. That means the combined sentence will be six years and nine months.Unlike at his sentencing hearing last week, Manafort said he was sorry for his actions, but Jackson then told him his expression of remorse … [Read more...] about U.S. federal judge gives ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort 73 months
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Sony World Photography Awards 2019: The Best Picture from Each Country
Culture Slideshows The Sony World Photography Awards is one of the world's biggest and most important photography contests. Produced by the World Photography Organization and now in their 12th year of partnership with Sony, the awards consist of four competitions in total: Professional (for a body of work), Open (for a single image), Student (for academic institutions) and Youth (for 12-19 year olds). The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on April 17. The 12th edition saw a record-breaking 326,997 submissions by photographers from 195 countries and territories, presenting some of the world’s finest contemporary photography captured over the past year. The judges have sorted through these and have highlighted the work of photographers from 62 countries, promoting them on a global scale. With winners from Myanmar to Peru, Mexico to Vietnam, the National Awards offer a unique opportunity for photographers of all abilities to showcase their work globally. … [Read more...] about Sony World Photography Awards 2019: The Best Picture from Each Country
Journalist and Duterte critic posts bail after arrest causes outcry
MANILA — The head of a Philippine news website that has locked horns with President Rodrigo Duterte was freed on bail Thursday, a day after her widely condemned arrest on libel charges that critics say is a government effort to bully journalists. Maria Ressa, the award-winning head of news platform Rappler, was served a warrant live on television at her office on Wednesday for what media watchdogs said were trumped-up charges aimed at intimidating those who challenge Duterte's rule. "What we're seeing is death by a thousand cuts of our democracy," said Ressa, who was selected by Time magazine last year as one of its Persons of the Year. "You have to express outrage and do it now. Press freedom is not just about journalists, is not just about us, it's not just about me, it's not just about Rappler. Press freedom is the foundation of every single right of every Filipino to the truth," she told reporters after posting bail. Duterte has openly lambasted journalists who write … [Read more...] about Journalist and Duterte critic posts bail after arrest causes outcry
Threats to human rights and the rule of law around the world require our attention
Home Daily News Threats to human rights and the rule of law… ABA Abroad By Judge M. Margaret McKeown Posted January 24, 2019, 1:00 pm CST Editor’s note: This is the first ABA Abroad column, a new series highlighting the work of the ABA’s Center for Global Programs, which comprises the Rule of Law Initiative, Center for Human Rights, and the ABA’s presence at the United Nations. For the past decade, I have been a good friend of a tax judge in Turkey. He was an officer in the Turkish Association of Judges and active in the International Association of Judges, where we would discuss threats to the judiciary around the world. On July 16, 2016, his last tweet read: “Arrest warrants were issued for 2,745 judges and prosecutors INCLUDING ME who were suspended [this] morning. No more independent judiciary in Turkey.” After a perfunctory trial last spring, he was sentenced to prison. In describing the trial, observers from the Platform for an Independent … [Read more...] about Threats to human rights and the rule of law around the world require our attention
Analysis: In democracies’ political chaos, new model emerges
Niko Price, Associated Press Updated 3:05 am PST, Friday, December 14, 2018 FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2018 file photo, a demonstrator waves the French flag on a burning barricade on the Champs-Elysees avenue with the Arc de Triomphe in background, during a demonstration against the rise of fuel taxes. Across the world, people are questioning truths they had long held to be self-evident, and they are dismissing some of them as fake news. They are replacing traditions they had long seen as immutable with haphazard reinvention. In France, people who feel left behind by a globalizing world have spent the last few weeks marching and rioting to protest a government they call elitist and out of touch. less FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2018 file photo, a demonstrator waves the French flag on a burning barricade on the Champs-Elysees avenue with the Arc de Triomphe in background, during a demonstration against the rise ... more … [Read more...] about Analysis: In democracies’ political chaos, new model emerges