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Added on the 18/01/2021 13:08:38 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Russia's most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny leaves a police station in Khimki handcuffed where there was an impromptu hearing and where his incarceration was announced. With temperatures hovering around -20 degrees Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit), several dozen Navalny supporters gather outside the police station shouting "Liocha, we are with you". Some of them were arrested. IMAGES
Crowds gather as Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends an impromptu hearing behind closed doors in a courtroom set up at a police station in Khimki on the outskirts of Moscow. Police seized Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent, at a border control post at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport less than an hour after he returned to Russia from Germany for the first time since he was poisoned with a nerve agent in August. IMAGES
Images have surfaced of the Federal Police headquarters in Santos, on the coast of Sao Paulo, where former Brazilian football player Robinho was held after his arrest. He was sentenced to nine years in prison in Brazil for his involvement in a gang rape case in Italy dating back to 2017. IMAGES
Officers stand guard outside the Homicide Department of Rio de Janeiro's Civil Police, where authorities are expected to hold a press conference after the shooting of three doctors -- one of them the brother of a lawmaker -- at a beach bar in the Brazilian city. IMAGES
Police in Moscow detain people outside a court in the Russian capital that was due to decide whether Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny should face prison time. IMAGES