{"id":145531,"date":"2021-03-06T12:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T06:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=145531"},"modified":"2021-03-06T12:58:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T07:28:38","slug":"nicolas-sarkozy-amazons-corporate-offices-ahmed-kabir-kishore-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/world-news\/globetrotter-news\/nicolas-sarkozy-amazons-corporate-offices-ahmed-kabir-kishore-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy sent to 3 yrs in \u2018jail\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A French court has sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to three years in prison for corruption and influence peddling, but suspended two years of the sentence. With this, Sarkozy will be the first president to have been sentenced to jail in France’s modern history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
France\u2019s President from 2007 to 2012, Sarkozy had played an active role in forging a \u201ccorruption pact\u201d with his lawyer and a senior magistrate to illegally obtain information about an ongoing investigation into his campaign finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The court, however, said that Sarkozy need not serve time in jail. He could serve the sentence by wearing an electronic bracelet at home. Though Sarkozy was not banned from holding public office, the recent verdict is likely to quash his hopes of returning to public life in time for next year\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Paris prosecutor had requested a two-year prison sentence and a two-year suspended sentence for Sarkozy and his co-defendants, his lawyer Thierry Herzog and former magistrate Gilbert Azibert. Judge Christine Mee said that there were serious evidences of \u201ccorruption pact\u201d, between Sarkozy, Herzog and Azibert. Meanwhile, Sarkozy has said that he was ready to go all the way to the European Court of Human Rights to prove his innocence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Systematic racism alleged in Amazon\u2019s corporate offices<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A lawsuit filed in the US Federal Court by a manager working at Amazon.com Inc has accused the online retailer Amazon of keeping women and employees of colour down while publicly talking up the need for diversity and social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Charlotte Newman, a business development head at Amazon Web Services, who is a person of colour, said the company suffers from a \u201csystemic pattern of insurmountable discrimination,\u201d and added that it hires coloured people for lower positions and promotes them more slowly than white workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An Amazon spokeswoman said: \u201cWe do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind and thoroughly investigate all claims and take appropriate action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amazon is digging into allegations made in the lawsuit, she added. Meanwhile, Amazon also is also facing lawsuits claiming it mistreated workers in its handling of the Coronavirus pandemic at its facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bangladeshi cartoonist gets bail<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bangladesh\u2019s High Court has granted bail to cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore (42) who has been held for ten months of pre-trial detention under a sweeping cybersecurity law that critics say limits free speech. The bail was granted in the wake of widespread protests over the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail last Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ahmed, 53, and Kishore were incarcerated in May last year in a case filed under the contentious Digital Security Act (DSA). Post Ahmed\u2019s death around 500 people from civil society and left-leaning political groups marched towards Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina\u2019s office. However, the mob was prevented from reaching the prime minister\u2019s residence by the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, the protesters have served an ultimatum to the government for abolition of the DSA by March 26 Bangladesh\u2019s Independence Day or face intensified protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n US Supreme Court paves way for release of Trump\u2019s tax returns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Former US President Donald Trump, who left office on January 20, continues to face an array of legal issues concerning personal and business conduct. In a recent development, the US Supreme Court has paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain Trump\u2019s tax returns and other records as part of an accelerating criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n