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Added on the 26/05/2023 07:39:05 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Latin America
Roman Pratasevich stood trial on charges of organizing unrest and plotting to seize power. He was arrested in 2021 after being removed from a commercial airplane that was forced to land in Minsk.
Vladimir Kara-Murza has rejected the charges against him as political and likened the judicial proceedings against him to the show trials during the rule of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya sentenced to 15 years in prison
Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the right-hand man and ex-boyfriend of company founder Elizabeth Holmes, is planning to appeal an almost 13-year prison sentence for fraud. Prosecutors argued he played an essential role in defrauding investors of $900 million. Theranos falsely claimed it could run blood tests with a single prick of a finger. Also in the show, we look at two complaints filed against TikTok by the US state of Indiana, and at the South Korean government's crackdown on an ongoing trucker strike.