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A Russian court on Friday sentenced jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny to 19 additional years behind bars on extremism charges. IMAGES
The leader of the opposition coalition UNITA in Angola, casts his vote in the presidential election. Hoping to beat the incumbent, President João Lourenço. IMAGES
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the self-exiled Belarusian opposition figure leading a campaign against strongman Alexander Lukashenko, reacts in an interview with AFP to news of her husband being sentenced to 18 years in jail after galvanising an unprecedented protest movement. SOUNDBITE
The head of the main opposition party in Istanbul to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison. IMAGES
A Russian opposition march takes place in Moscow, three years after the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemstov. Allies of the slain Kremlin critic have pointed the finger of blame at the Kremlin over the killing but Russian authorities have denied any involvement. IMAGES