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Added on the 05/04/2018 19:13:00 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Convicted rapist and former Brazil international Dani Alves leaves a prison near Barcelona after posting the one-million-euro bail set by a court to ensure his release pending appeal. The 40-year-old has been in jail since his arrest in January 2023 on suspicion of raping a young woman in the VIP bathroom of a Barcelona nightclub in the early hours of December 31, 2022. IMAGES
Journalists gather outside a Spanish jail ahead of Ex-Brazil international footballer Dani Alves expected release pending an appeal against his rape conviction in exchange for posting bail of one million euros. His expected release comes following a ruling by a Barcelona court, which came a day after his lawyer requested his release on the grounds that he had already served a quarter of his four-and-a-half-year sentence in pre-trial detention following his arrest in January 2023. IMAGES OF THE PRISON
Indigenous people arrive before Brazil's Supreme Court to await a decision on a key case on whether to restrict native peoples' rights to their ancestral lands. So far, five judges have voted to reject the so-called "time-frame argument", which holds that native peoples should not have the right to lands where they were not present in 1988, when the country's current constitution was ratified. IMAGES
Brazil's electoral court begins delivering its ruling on charges ex-president Jair Bolsonaro broke the law with his unproven allegations against the voting system, a case that could eliminate him from the 2026 presidential race. IMAGES
Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko arrives at a Kyiv court. Prosecutors are appealing against a bail decision freeing the ex-Ukrainian president, who is accused of treason. Poroshenko's lawyers are expected to call for his passport to be returned, which was withheld by the court to prevent him from leaving the country. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy, his former lawyer Thierry Herzog and former senior magistrate Gilbert Azibert leave court after the National Financial Prosecutor's Office issued an indictment asking for four years in prison, two of them suspended, for the three accused in the so-called "wiretapping" case. (COMPLETES VIDEOS VIDI8WQ2ZY_EN, VIDI8WP6TK_EN, VIDI8WQ3EV_EN) IMAGES