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The head of the main opposition party in Istanbul to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison. IMAGES
Disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell is sentenced to six years in jail for child sex crimes in a Melbourne court, with a minimum period of three years and eight months to be served. SOUNDBITE
Theo Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen are set to be sentenced today in the Middelburg Magistrate's Court, South Africa, for the so called coffin assault case. They were found guilty of attempted murder, kidnapping, intimidation and two counts of assault after they forced Victor Mlotshwa into a coffin and a video of the event went viral. IMAGES
Rwanda jails the main leader of the opposition for treason and denying the genocide which scourged the country in the 1990s. Next, there are urgent calls for a reform of South Sudan's use of the death penalty as activists warn justice is not being served. Finally, China's manufacturers begin gravitating towards Africa as the low production costs become an irresistible draw.
The victim of the Mazan rape case, Gisèle P., who was drugged and raped for ten years by her husband and scores of strangers he recruited on the internet, arrives at the court in Avignon before taking the witness stand. Police counted a total of 92 rapes committed by 72 men, 51 of whom were identified. IMAGES