Hours earlier, Steve Bannon, a Trump ally, was sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to testify in the committee’s investigation into the insurrection.

In a letter to Trump’s lawyers, the nine-member special panel demanded that the former president testify under oath, either on Capitol Hill or by videoconference, “beginning on or about November 14.” which is after the crucial midterm elections on November 8 – and continue for several days if necessary.

A series of documents was also requested, including personal communications between him and legislators, as well as with extremist groups, made on the day of the assault. The subpoena comes after this special panel voted unanimously on Oct. 13 to order Trump to appear before investigators.

“We recognize that subpoenaing a former president is an important and historic move,” commission chair Bennie Thompson and vice chair Liz Cheney wrote in the letter. “We do not take this measure lightly.”

It was unclear how the tycoon and his legal team would respond to the order, as he could abide by it, negotiate with the panel or simply ignore it. He could also challenge it in court. His spokeswoman did not return a request for comment.

The commission alleged in its letter that it has gathered “overwhelming evidence” that Trump “personally orchestrated” a campaign to reverse his own defeat in the 2020 election, including spreading false allegations of widespread fraud, “attempting to corrupt” the Department. of Justice and pressuring state officials, legislators and his own vice president to alter the results.

Lawmakers, however, say key details about the case are missing, and the only person who can fill those gaps is Trump.

Meanwhile, federal judge Carl Nichols sentenced Steve Bannon to four months in prison for refusing to testify, although he allowed him to remain free while he appeals. In addition, he fined her $6,500 as part of the sentence. In July, a federal court found him guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress: refusing to testify and failing to produce documents.

Steve Bannon, Trump ally and convicted of contempt of Congress, accompanied by his lawyer Evan Corcoran, leaving the court that sentenced him yesterday. Photo: AP.

Nichols recalled that the law clearly establishes that contempt of the legislature is punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of one month in jail. The prosecution had asked for a six-month sentence, while the defense had argued in favor of a period of probation.

“Today was my trial day,” Bannon said defiantly as he left federal court in Washington. He promised that “on November 8 the illegitimate regime” of President Joe Biden will be judged, alluding to the mid-term elections. Protesters yelled at him “Traitor! Fascist!”

Asked about the sentence, Biden responded with disdain: “I never have a reaction with Steve Bannon.”

Alan Byerly, a Pennsylvania man, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for assaulting an Associated Press photographer and attacking police officers with a stun gun during unrest on Capitol Hill.

The Department of Justice assured that it urgently needs “more than 34 million dollars in additional financing” to maintain the investigation against those suspected of participating in the insurrection of January 6.

In this context, anonymous sources consulted by The Washington Post newspaper reported that the documents seized from the Trump mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, last August included highly confidential intelligence data that addressed Iran’s missile program and “described a job of highly sensitive intelligence directed at China.

(Taken from The Day)

Through his Twitter account, he emphasized that the island will insist on this path to respond ‘to the peoples’ demand for peace, sustainable development and justice’.

On November 26, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared that, as of its sixty-third session, February 20 of each year will be celebrated as the World Day of Social Justice.

According to the official United Nations website, the celebration promotes the international community’s efforts to achieve sustainable development, eradicate poverty, promote full employment and decent work, universal social protection, gender equality and access to social welfare and justice for all.

Given the current epidemiological situation and the progress of information and communication technologies, the UN decided that the 2021 theme for celebrating the date would be ‘A Call for Social Justice in the Digital Economy.’

(Taken from Prensa Latina)

Indecency, despair and lack of scruples lead them to use the dirtiest and most heinous methods, to try to confuse. They have not been able and will not be able to with us, he wrote on his Twitter account, Ferro.

The false account under the name @TSupremoCUP, “is dedicated to usurping our profile and confusing the audience in relation to the mission of the Cuban judicial system,” remarked the TSP in @TSupremoCU.

As part of the aggressiveness of the United States, which is also reflected on the web, several leaders have false profiles on social networks.

The event coincides with the temporary closure of several accounts of Cuban institutions, including the press , in the largest microblogging network in the world.

(Source: Prensa Latina)

The ceremonial opening of the 2019 Judicial Year was presided by the President of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, yesterday January 14, with Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of the National Assembly of People’s Power, participating as well, at the Supreme Court located on Aguilar Street in Old Havana.

The holding of such events is an international practice that Cuba has re-initiated, as a reflection of the strengthening of institutionality and the importance of the courts to the construction of the country’s economic, political, and social project.

In Cuba, Díaz-Canel noted, “The administration of justice is conceived as a public service, vital to maintaining legality, order, citizens security, and in promoting the effective exercise of rights and fulfillment of duties,” thus the necessity of their acting in an ethical, diligent manner, committed to the values of our society, he added.
Despite obtaining superior results across the board, there are still fissures, he acknowledged, related to unjustified delays, errors, and negligence in the holding of trials, as well as improper behavior and violations of ethics.

The fundamental work of 2019 will be oriented toward correcting these deviations and continuing to promote the application of science and new technologies in this arena.
IN FIGURES
- During 2018, 163,883 cases were considered by the courts. Of these, 149,061 were processed and resolved.
- 74,388 final judgments were to be executed. Of these, 69,709 were completed.
- Women and young people constitute 84% and 34%, respectively, of the country’s professional judges.

(Granma)

Antonio Israel Ybarra Suarez, head of the Cuban delegation to the 61st session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), congratulated himself at the plenary session of the meeting for the insignificant incidence of that scourge in his country, despite its geographical location in an area of significant traffic.

The CND representative and Secretary of the National Drug Commission, remarked that, as a result of the political will and commitment of the Cuban State and government, the effects of this scourge on the internal order are reduced.

After highlighting the importance of the work of this session, as part of the preparatory process for the Special High-Level Segment to be held in 2019, he said it will be a space to reiterate Cuba’s commitment to cooperate with the region and the entire international community to face narcotics.

Ybarra Suarez reiterated his country’s support to the work of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, without undermining its functions or duplicity in other multilateral forums.

Cuba reaffirms at the same time its commitments and obligations as a State member of the three United Nations Conventions that make up the international legal framework of the global drug control regime, he said.

Ybarra Suarez agreed that drug control policies should focus on the well-being from individual and prevent violence and crime.

The Cuban delegation also includes Chargé d’Affaires Marieta García Jordán, and third secretaries, Susette Hernández González and Beatriz Lauzarique Montiel.

The CND, the main body responsible for formulating policies of the United Nations drug control system, is holding the current session from March 12 to 16, 2018, in the Austrian capital.

(Prensa Latina)