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Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and other prominent Brotherhood figures are sentenced to life in prison on charges related to a deadly attack in 2013. Pavithra George reports.
Starvation cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and his suspected accomplices arrive in court to file a plea after a Kenyan court charged them with murder over the deaths of more than 400 followers. Mackenzie is alleged to have incited his acolytes to starve to death in order to "meet Jesus" in a case that provoked horror across the world. IMAGES
Images outside of the Palais de Justice in Dakar, as the appeals trial of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko is due to begin. Sonko, who was accused of defamation, was handed a two-month suspended sentence in the court case at the end of March after a trial his lawyers said would not rule him out of the 2024 presidential election. Sonko's fate is also wrapped up in another case in which he is accused of rape, which he contests. IMAGES
The treason conviction of a top Cambodian opposition leader is a "miscarriage of justice," says the United States ambassador to the country. The trial of Kem Sokha and his 27-year jail sentence were based on a "fabricated conspiracy" and represented a "miscarriage of justice," W. Patrick Murphy tells reporters outside the courthouse in the capital Phnom Penh. The trial of Kem Sokha and his 27-year jail sentence were based on a "fabricated conspiracy" and represented a "miscarriage of justice," W. Patrick Murphy told reporters outside the courthouse in the capital Phnom Penh. SOUNDBITE
The leader of the SNP and Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, says "democracy is what is at stake" after the UK Supreme Court ruled against the unilaterial right of the Scottish parliament to call an independence referendum. "It is now about whether or not we even have the basic, democratic right to choose our own future" she adds. SOUNDBITE