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Kevin Downing, lawyer for Paul Manafort, arrives at court for the sentencing of Donald Trump's former campaign chief. Manafort is to be sentenced for tax crimes and bank fraud in a high-profile case stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. IMAGES
Julian Assange's lawyer Jen Robinson hails a "historic day" as the WikiLeaks founder is freed by a US court in a landmark plea deal. SOUNDBITE
"We firmly believe that Mr Assange never should have been charged under the Espionage Act", says Barry Pollack, lawyer for Julian Assange outside a court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a Pacific US territory. A US judge freed Assange on Wednesday in a plea deal that ended years of legal drama for the WikiLeaks founder, long wanted by Washington for revealing military secrets. IMAGES
Donald Trump's former key lawyer Michael Cohen leaves for the Manhattan courthouse ahead of his testimony in the ex-president's New York criminal trial. IMAGES
Supporters of Julian Assange arrive outside 10 Downing Street to call for his release after a UK court hearing over whether to grant the WikiLeaks founder a fresh appeal against his extradition to the United States to face espionage charges concluded in London. Washington indicted Assange multiple times between 2018 and 2020 over Wikileaks's publication of hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic files on the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. IMAGES