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Added on the 18/04/2024 10:30:59 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The trial of a French researcher accused of violating Russia's "foreign agent" law begins in Moscow amid simmering tensions with Paris over Ukraine. Laurent Vinatier, who worked on conflict mediation for a Swiss NGO and was arrested in June, appears in a glass cage for defendants at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky court as the trial opens. He faces up to five years in prison. IMAGES
Argentina's justice system opens the trial for the attempted murder of Cristina Kirchner in 2022, when a man fired a gun inches away from the then vice president's face in a failed assassination that shocked society and broke a political boundary. IMAGES
The hearing to examine the validity of the expulsion of Eric Ciotti, leader of the right-wing mainstream Republicans (LR), opens at the Paris Court of Justice in Ciotti's absence. IMAGES
Around 50 people, including several Americans, go on trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of involvement in what the army said was a thwarted coup attempt last month. Armed men attacked the home of Economy Minister Vital Kamerhe in the early hours of May 19 before moving onto the nearby Palais de la Nation that houses President Felix Tshisekedi's offices. IMAGES
A Moscow military court opens a trial against the playwright Svetlana Petriychuk and theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich, in a terrorism case over an award-winning play, as censorship and repressions mount in Russia during the Ukraine offensive. IMAGES