Sentence examples for rigged trial from inspiring English sources

It's a rigged trial being carried out by criminals.

Olusegun Obasanjo, the current president, was jailed after a rigged trial for treason.

To mark today's verdict in the latest rigged trial of the Russian ex-oil-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Guardian carries a wonderful commentary by Boris Akunin, one of Russia's most popular crime writers.

The BPL was an easy sell for subjects with simple reinforcement of prior knowledge and confirmation of experimenter statements with a rigged trial.

Now it is planning to hang six of them after rigged trials held in secret.

What's an opponent of rigged trials, indefinite detention and torture to do? Keep Guantánamo open.

Another employee fled China's capital, fearing he would be forced to testify against his colleagues in rigged trials.

The latest human rights abuses by Tehran are the secret, rigged trials and the imminent execution of six more ethnic Arab Iranians (Ahwazi Arabs) in Ahwaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan in south-western Iran - homeland to five million Arabs.

His Angelo is a young neo-con who turns the lax society he inherits into a repressive state complete with endless surveillance, prison beatings, rigged trials and arbitrary punishments.

Accusations are made of unfair arrests and rigged trials, as in the case of a banker killed by interior-ministry employees: a test of the government's commitment to the rule of law, says Salome Zourabichvili, a former foreign minister now in opposition and one that it looks like failing.

Hecht and MacArthur's play was a satirical ode to newspaper life: editor Walter Burns and journalist Hildy Johnson wisecracked their way, homburgs on heads, through a rigged murder trial, a corrupt city and each other's psyche.