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"I would say to everyone that is wrongfully detained right now across the world: stay strong, keep fighting, don't give up," says Brittney Griner, US women's basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury team, as she holds her first press conference since her release from a Russian prison. SOUNDBITE
US basketball player Brittney Griner, who was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony in August for drug smuggling, is seen on a screen via a video link from a remand prison before a court hearing to consider an appeal against her sentence. The hearing is held at the Moscow regional court. IMAGES
Former Russian defence reporter, Ivan Safronov, is sentenced to 22 years on treason charges by a Moscow court. Safronov, 32, appeared handcuffed inside a glass box. Safronov was one of the country's most respected reporters, working for business newspapers Kommersant and Vedomosti. He is accused of divulging state secrets. IMAGES
The 55-year-old disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for leading a decades-long effort to recruit and trap teenagers and women for sex, will appeal the sentence, says his attorney, Jennifer Bonjean. SOUNDBITE
Moscow (Russia), Feb 20 (EFE/EPA) - (Camera: Yury Kochetkov) The Moscow Court on Saturday rejected the appeal of the 3.5 years in prison to which Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni was sentenced in 2014, in a trial described as "arbitrary" by the European Court of Human Rights.FOOTAGE OF ALEXEY NAVALNY'S LAWYERS, VADIM KOBZEV AND OLGA MIKHAILOVA, APPEARING BEFORE THE MEDIA IN FRONT OF THE BABUSHKINSKY DISTRICT COURT IN MOSCOW.
A Moscow appeal court has upheld a prison sentence imposed on chief Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after he returned to Russia from Germany last month. Judge Dmitry Balashov rejected Navalny's appeal of the February 2 ruling, which turned a 2014 suspended sentence on embezzlement charges into real jail time. IMAGES
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