Sentence examples similar to closed door trials from inspiring English sources

In December of 2013, in another closed door trial, Amir was convicted of cooperating with a hostile government and sentenced to ten years in prison in Iran.

What is new is the way that regulators and prosecutors are in effect conducting closed-door trials.

While the Rio Tinto employees still face lesser charges of bribery and theft of trade secrets, the espionage threats stirred broad unease among foreign companies operating in China, which feared that they could face persecution and closed-door trials for engaging in what much of the world would regard as bare-knuckle business tactics.

"We do not gain pleasure from revenge nor spilling the blood of the puppets of those who have broken the law," the letter of the three families reads, referring to the two unnamed individuals sentenced to death in closed-door trials for beating detainees to death.

Judges denied other requests in the closed-door trial, including a plea for a jury.

The Iranian government has not released details of his conviction in the closed-door trial.

He was subsequently convicted of espionage in a closed-door trial in 2015.

Rezaian, whose closed-door trial began in late May, is facing charges of espionage and collaborating with hostile governments.

That was a reference to the closed-door trial in Iran of 13 Jewish men on espionage charges.

Rezaian's four-session, closed-door trial was presided over by Abolghassem Salavati, a judge notorious for issuing heavy sentences.

Mr Xu had been found guilty at a closed-door trial in January but had appealed the verdict.