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Images show WSJ journalist, Evan Gershkovich, in a Moscow courtroom for a hearing to appeal his pre-trial detention. The US reporter was arrested on March 29 on charges of espionage and now faces up to 20 years in prison. Also shown is US Ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracey. IMAGES
US basketball star Brittney Griner appears in court in Khimki, Russia, for a hearing in her trial for charges of drug smuggling. She was arrested at a Moscow airport in February for possessing vape cartridges with cannabis oil, as she traveled to to Russia to play club basketball with UMMC Ekaterinburg. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a bid to find a way home for Griner as well as Paul Whelan, a former Marine jailed on espionage charges he denies. IMAGES
Khartoum (Sudan), Sep 1 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Mohamed Abu Obaid).- The trial against the former Sudanese president, Omar Al-Bashir, and 20 other people for their role in a military coup in 1989 resumed on Tuesday in Khartoum.FOOTAGE OF THE TRIAL AND PROTEST OUTSIDE THE COURT.
Khartoum, Jul 21 (EFE-EPA), (Camera: Mohamed Hassan al-Obeid).- The first appearance of former Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir before the judiciary over the 1989 coup that led him to the power was postponed due to absence of defense attorneys. “As a result of the absence of some defense attorneys of the accused... the session has been postponed to 11 August,” judge Esam al-Din Mohamed Ibrahim said an hour after the arrival of al-Bashir to the court.FOOTAGE OF PROTESTERS AND SUPPORTERS OUTSIDE KHARTOUM COURT ON TUESDAY.
Khartoum (Sudan), Dec 14, EFE/EPA, (Camera: Morwan Ali).- A court in Khartoum on Saturday sentenced former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to two years' confinement in a reformatory centre for the crime of illicit enrichment and currency trafficking in the first conviction against the dictator since his overthrow last April. The court found 75-year-old Al Bashir guilty of illegal currency possession after authorities seized more than 7 million euros in a raid on his residence days after he lost power.FOOTAGE INSIDE THE COURT ROOM.