Sentence examples for rigged trials from inspiring English sources
What's an opponent of rigged trials, indefinite detention and torture to do? Keep Guantánamo open.
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.
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.
The great assailant of the French Revolution, which among other crimes went in for rigged political trials on a large scale, himself conducted such a trial.
Coca-Cola Unit Head Resigns After Rigged Test.
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.
The short scenes that dramatise the rigged warehouse fire trial are a masterpiece of darkly droll pacing here, with a touch of warped Lewis Carroll in the blatant illogicality whereby the accused, drugged so that can't defend himself, is framed for a crime he couldn't possibly have committed.
He also wrote to the senior Treasury counsel at the Old Bailey: "Now that the sensible practice of jury fixing is out in the open thanks to the irresponsible behaviour of the Guardian, I would like to nominate myself as a rigged juryman in certain trials.
