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Added on the 24/11/2023 13:09:19 - Copyright : Euronews EN
A parole board is expected to decide if South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius should be released from prison early, a decade after he killed his girlfriend, a lawyer for the victim's family says outside the correctional facility where the parole hearing was taking place. "We have been advised that there will be a decision later today." SOUNDBITE
Reeva Steenkamp's lawyer and mother arrive at Atteridgeville prison in Pretoria ahead of a parole hearing for South African former Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius that could see his early release for killing his then girlfriend in 2013. IMAGES
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for fatally shooting his girlfriend on Valentine's Day of last year and to three years suspended for a firearms offence. Judge Thokozile Masipa last month acquitted the double amputee sprinter of the charge of murder over Reeva Steenkamp's death but she found him guilty of culpable homicide, South Africa’s equivalent of manslaughter.
Former South African president Jacob Zuma votes in his hometown Nkandla, in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, a key election battleground, during the general election. IMAGES
Caster Semenya appears before the highest chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for a hearing into whether the double Olympic champion can be required to lower her testosterone levels to compete. The 33-year-old runner won an earlier round at the ECHR, which last July ruled she was the victim of discrimination from the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). IMAGES
Images of home belonging to the uncle of South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius. The ex-Olympic runner was released from jail on parole Friday, having served more than half his sentence. He has been restricted to staying within the Pretoria district of Waterkloof, where his uncle lives, although precise information on his whereabouts has not been confirmed. IMAGES
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