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Bratislava, Jun 15 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Jakub Gavlak) The Slovak Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the acquittal of those accused of ordering and organizing the 2018 murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend and has ordered a repeat trial.FOOTAGE OF THE COURTROOM AND THE COURT.
Belarus opposition supporters protest in Warsaw against the detention of Roman Protasevich. On 23 May 2021, Belarus scrambled a military jet to divert a Ryanair plane and arrested 26-year-old opposition journalist and activist Roman Protasevich who was onboard, triggering a global outcry. IMAGES
Quezon City, Oct 14 (EFE/EPA).- Filipinos protested Wednesday at the Commission on Human Rights in Quezon City to demand the release of jailed human rights advocacy worker Reina Mae Nasino.Nasino obtained a furlough to attend the wake and burial of her three-month-old baby, River, after earlier petitioning a trial court to be with her newborn daughter when she was still alive and later battling pneumonia.The activist is in prison awaiting trial, like most of the over 600 political prisoners in Philippine jails, despite efforts by organizations for their release during the pandemic on humanitarian grounds. (Camera: ROLEX DELA PENA)SHOT LIST: PROTEST AT THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN QUEZON CITY.
Algerians rally in support of journalist Khaled Drareni, who is jailed for two years on appeal, a defence lawyer says, in a case seen as a barometer of press freedoms in the North African country. Although Drareni's jail time was reduced by a year from an August decision, press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned the sentence. IMAGES
The European Union on Wednesday expresses hope that Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas, who has been held for two years on terror charges, would be freed soon. SOUNDBITE
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will not allow the European Court of Human Rights to block the government's planned policy of deporting migrants to Rwanda. Speaking after the UK Supreme Court ruled the policy unlawful, he says he will introduce "emergency legislation" to designate Rwanda a safe country. "If the (European Court of Human Rights) chooses to intervene against the express wishes of parliament, I am prepared to do what is necessary to get the flights off" he says. SOUNDBITE
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