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Added on the 13/01/2021 09:51:37 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images from inside a courtroom in Italy's southern Calabrian town of Lamezia Terme, where the largest mafia trial in more than 30 years is set to begin. More than 350 alleged members of the mafia and the politicians, lawyers, businessmen and others accused of enabling them face a judge in a huge, specially converted courtroom, in the heart of 'Ndrangheta territory. IMAGES
Images of police and journalists outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building, where Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is due to stand trial in the Chinese city on national security charges that could see him jailed for life. IMAGES
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard arrive at Fairfax County Courthouse ahead of the start of the trial in the defamation case between the two stars. Opening arguments are to begin Tuesday after a jury was picked Monday to hear the suit brought by the 58-year-old Depp against his ex-wife. IMAGES
Dozens of people protest outside the London High Court where a hearing for Julian Assange's final UK appeal against extradition to the United States is set to begin. The 52-year-old WikiLeaks founder is facing trial in the United States for publishing secret military and diplomatic files. If he loses, Assange will have exhausted all UK appeals and will enter the extradition process, although his team have indicated they will appeal to European courts. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom after the Paris court of appeal lightened a one-year prison sentence for the former French president over illegal campaign financing, saying he needed to spend only half that time behind bars. But while lighter than the original sentence, Wednesday's ruling was still harsher than the one-year suspended sentence that prosecutors called for. IMAGES