Sentence examples for held trials from inspiring English sources

A panel of Taliban imams held trials in a local mosque.

But the country has never held trials for crimes committed for the Soviet cause, not even when Khrushchev denounced Stalin's tyranny in the 1950's.

If a number of countries in a region pursue prosecutions, nearby countries also show a decrease in the level of repression, even if they have not held trials.

American forces have occupied former bases of the Taliban in districts surrounding Kandahar, and set up positions in the same buildings, including the Taliban's main headquarters and courthouse in Sayedan where they held trials under Islamic law, or Shariah.

Last May, a court in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang held trials of two defendants accused of taking part in a phone-fraud scheme based in Kenya that had been orchestrated by Taiwanese ringleaders using mainland Chinese recruits, a Chinese newspaper reported at the time.

Pianka's staff also dug up a little-used 1953 statute that allowed for trials in absentia, and every other Monday afternoon for the last year and a half Pianka has held trials with a judge and a prosecutor but no defendant.

Winston Churchill was against holding trials at all.

A court is now holding trials at Bagram.

The Americans wanted the prisoners held without trial indefinitely, and the Afghans insisted on holding trials for them.

Two in three Americans would hold trials for prisoners held at Guantanamo.

"I was the only person to hold trials, and not just shoot people.