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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will appeal his UN war crimes court conviction for genocide, his legal adviser says. SOUNDBITE
Several hundred protesters gather outside a Stockholm court carrying photos of the dead as the trial of a former Iranian prison official accused of involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents starts in Stockholm. Protesters are calling for justice for the estimated 5,000 prisoners killed across Iran, allegedly under the orders of supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini in reprisal for attacks carried out by the MEK at the end of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. IMAGES
Widows of Srebrenica and Muslim survivors of the 1995 massacre committed in the Bosnian town watch the live broadcast of the appeal verdict of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic. Mladic was definitively sentenced by international justice to life imprisonment for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. IMAGES
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Paris courthouse, where the criminal court is due to hand down its verdict in the so-called "wiretapping" case. The former head of state is accused of corruption and influence peddling offences, which he denies. 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
Former Bosnian military commander Naser Oric, hailed by supporters as the heroic "defender of Srebrenica", is acquitted of war crimes during the country's 1990s conflict. The ruling sparked mixed reactions in the country deeply divided along ethnic lines -- slammed by ethnic Serbs as an "amnesty for war crimes" and welcomed by Muslims as the "final victory of justice". IMAGES
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