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"That sentence that was just handed down by this court was obscene, that number was obnoxious," says Donna Rotunno, Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer, after he is sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault in a landmark case for the #MeToo movement. SOUNDBITE
Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison after being found guilty of third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sexual act.
Images of the exterior of a Los Angeles criminal court where convicted sex offender and formre movie industry tycoon Harvey Weinstein is due to be sentenced later today. 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
"This is what justice looks like," women's rights attorney Gloria Allred tells reporters after disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a New York judge for rape and sexual assault in a landmark case for the #MeToo movement. SOUNDBITE
Harvey Weinstein's legal team have claimed he may die in jail if he's sentenced to more than five years behind bars.