经过长期审判，法国前总统雅克·希拉克已被确认有腐败罪。他被判定任巴黎市长期间侵吞财产，并犯有为其所属党派成员制造虚假岗位的背信罪。他被判处缓刑两年，他是战时犯下通敌罪的领导人贝当元帅之后首位有罪的法国领导人。Hugh Schofield报道。

Mr Chirac's lawyer said that the former president categorically contested the guilty verdict. However, he did not have it in him to continue the combat, so he decided not to appeal. The lawyer said that Mr Chirac was at least happy that the court had recognised he did not personally enrich himself from the embezzlement. The charges go back more than 20 years to when Mr Chirac was the powerful mayor of Paris and controlled the system in which municipal funds were used to pay his political party staff.

希拉克的律师称，前总统断然否定有罪判决。然而，但他没有一直坚持反对，因此决定不上诉。律师说，至少令希拉克感到高兴的是，法庭发现他侵吞财产并不是为了饱私囊。这起指控要追溯到20年前，当时希拉克是巴黎有权力的市长，他管理的系统的市政资金被用来给他所属政党成员发薪水了。

Reports from Bahrain say that a blogger and human rights activist, Zainab al-Khawaja, has been arrested during a protest on a main road leading to the capital Manama. Activists have called for her release. Eyewitnesses say security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters. Sebastian Usher reports.