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The man at the centre of a sexual assault scandal that prompted the Swedish Academy to postpone this year's Nobel Literature Prize goes on trial for two counts of rape that emerged during the #MeToo campaign. Frenchman Jean-Claude Arnault was an influential figure on Stockholm's cultural scene for decades, until the explosive sexual assault accusations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein sparked a wave of similar allegations around the world. IMAGES
Gisele Pelicot, a French woman whose husband has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her while she was drugged, arrives at the court in Avignon with her three children, while her daughter Caroline Darian and her two step-daughters were due to speak on the fifth day of the trial. Photos of them sleeping were also found on the computer of her husband, Dominique Pelicot. IMAGES
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
The trial of a French researcher accused of violating Russia's "foreign agent" law begins in Moscow amid simmering tensions with Paris over Ukraine. Laurent Vinatier, who worked on conflict mediation for a Swiss NGO and was arrested in June, appears in a glass cage for defendants at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky court as the trial opens. He faces up to five years in prison. IMAGES
Two French international rugby players, accused of raping a woman while on tour in Argentina last month, arrive at the Aeroparque airport in Buenos Aires after leaving Mendoza to be "more at ease," according to their lawyers. Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou have filed a motion to have their case dismissed in order to return to France. IMAGES
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