Investigative agencies are directed to speed up the cases of those accused of the preparation or execution of acts of terror.
Madame Chương — who was South Vietnam's observer at the United Nations — resigned and spoke of mass executions and a reign of terror under Diệm and Nhu.
The Justice Department is trying to salvage the case against Mr. Moussaoui in light of several setbacks, including recent interrogations of captured Qaeda leaders who have suggested that Mr. Moussaoui had nothing to do with the planning or execution of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, officials said.
Mr. Moussavi and Mr. Karroubi have condemned the executions for creating an atmosphere of "terror in society".
The only restraint on the tendency of power to debase its holders, and to take the shortest way to getting its ends - summary executions, torture, war, the use of terror and repression - is a structure of law, with proper methods and independent judges, before whom even a ruler must be answerable.
The diplomatic stand-off between Iran and Saudi Arabia began on Saturday, when the kingdom executed Sheikh al-Nimr and 46 others convicted of terror charges – the largest mass execution it has carried out since 1980.
In books like "Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society Since 1900 199292), he shed light on cultural forms previously ignored or dismissed, writing about the variety stage, the composers of factory songs and beloved actors like Lyubov Orlova, a star in musical comedy films of the 1930s, who, as he put it, "sang and danced her way through a decade of terror and mass executions".
The diplomatic standoff between Iran and the kingdom began Saturday, when Saudi Arabia executed Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and 46 others convicted of terror charges — the largest mass execution carried out by the kingdom since 1980.
