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Added on the 10/08/2021 10:13:59 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A demonstration is held in Stockholm ahead of the first testimony of a former Iranian prison official accused of handing out death sentences during a 1988 purge of dissidents in a landmark trial in Sweden. Hamid Noury, 60, has been on trial in Stockholm's district court since August on charges including murder, crimes against humanity and war crimes. They stem from the period between July 30 to August 16, 1988, when he was allegedly assistant to the deputy prosecutor of Gohardasht prison in Karaj, near Tehran. IMAGES
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein leaves the New York state courthouse using a walker on the first day of his sex crimes trial which is expected to last six weeks and could see the once-mighty Hollywood producer jailed for life if convicted on charges of predatory sexual assault. IMAGES
Ramush Haradinaj, who resigned as Kosovo's Prime Minister, arrives at the Kosovo special court in The Hague to be questioned on suspicions of war crimes. Jakup Krasniqi, former president of Parliament and former spokesman for the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), is also appearing at the tribunal. The EU-backed special war crimes court for Kosovo was established in 2015 to try war crimes allegedly committed by ethnic Albanian guerrillas against minority Serbs and Roma and local Albanian political opponents during and immediately after the 1998-1999 independence war against Serbia. IMAGES
Emergency services arrive at the UN war crimes court after a stunning drama saw a former Bosnian Croat military leader appear to drink poison seconds after judges upheld his 20-year sentence. IMAGES
Dozens of people protest outside the London High Court where a hearing for Julian Assange's final UK appeal against extradition to the United States is set to begin. The 52-year-old WikiLeaks founder is facing trial in the United States for publishing secret military and diplomatic files. If he loses, Assange will have exhausted all UK appeals and will enter the extradition process, although his team have indicated they will appeal to European courts. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).