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"It is a very fair judgement and I am satisfied", says Alexei Navalny after the European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia's repeated arrests of the opposition leader were politically motivated and orders the state to pay a 50,000 Euro fine. SOUNDBITE (completes VID1264546_EN)
At least 4700 people have been killed and more than 10 000 have been wounded in the conflict-affected areas of eastern Ukraine. Sergey is one of the survivers.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will not allow the European Court of Human Rights to block the government's planned policy of deporting migrants to Rwanda. Speaking after the UK Supreme Court ruled the policy unlawful, he says he will introduce "emergency legislation" to designate Rwanda a safe country. "If the (European Court of Human Rights) chooses to intervene against the express wishes of parliament, I am prepared to do what is necessary to get the flights off" he says. SOUNDBITE
Co-chair of Russian Memorial rights group, Oleg Orlov, appears at a Moscow court on charges of repeatedly discrediting the army, which could see him jailed for up to five years. IMAGES
UN rights chief Volker Turk says Russia's war in Ukraine is "tugging us away from the work of building solutions, the work of ensuring our survival." Speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Turk denounced horrific abuses carried out since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine 13 months ago. SOUNDBITE
UN rights chief Volker Turk says that violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in Ukraine "have become shockingly routine" since the Russian invasion. SOUNDBITE