Sentence examples for kangaroo courts from inspiring English sources

(When the conventions were drawn up after the second world war, the framers were more worried about civilian kangaroo courts than courts-martial).However, the Pentagon is more concerned about two other issues.

Forget tribunals and other hybrid kangaroo courts.

Human rights groups have likened their trials to the kangaroo courts of the Soviet era.

In Mr Hussein's kangaroo courts, the accused were tried and shot within minutes, live on television.

After decades of kangaroo courts, almost anyone associated with Iraq's existing legal system is compromised.

"These are just kangaroo courts set up inside Bagram," she said.

"Moreover, these acts take the law into their own hands, and amount to kangaroo courts".

"There's been a lot of talk about military kangaroo courts," Mr. Cooke said.

There are fears that kangaroo courts may be set up if the legal courts are thought to be too slow.

He talks of congressional hearings turned into kangaroo courts by members "in a permanent state of outrage".

The killings were semi-legal, with kangaroo courts quickly convened and a majority of the harmless prisoners released.