In areas where one party dominates the political process -- and that covers most parts of the state -- Supreme Court judges are nominated by sham judicial conventions that are choreographed by party leaders, then rubber-stamped in the general election.
As the dictatorship fought back, he found himself taking on more traditional human rights battles -- for the rights of the Ogoni, against the military's burning of delta villages and its shooting of protesters and, finally, against the sham judicial process that led to his execution in 1995.
For far too long, the state of South Dakota was unnecessarily and illegally breaking up Indian families with impunity in sham judicial proceedings.
Monday's sentencing, by a judge in Cairo, of three Al Jazeera journalists to between seven and ten years in prison for the crime of "defamation of Egypt," and for using "unlicensed equipment" to perpetrate it, was a glaringly egregious judicial sham.
By Jon Lee Anderson June 25, 2014 Monday's sentencing, by a judge in Cairo, of three Al Jazeera journalists to between seven and ten years in prison for the crime of "defamation of Egypt," and for using "unlicensed equipment" to perpetrate it, was a glaringly egregious judicial sham.
Will he tolerate and endorse Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's personal proclivities from his disdain for investigative journalism and the reporters representing it, to his disregard for independent businesses and successful businessmen –or is Medvedev willing to put an end to this sham of a judicial process?
His government recently amended the document to outlaw opposing "religious parties" like the Muslim Brotherhood – an influential, extremely conservative Islamic political party that won 20% of parliamentary seats in 2005 elections – and neuter judicial supervision over future sham elections, thus ensuring the Mubarak dictatorship dynasty is passed on to his son, Gamal.
Hynes, with considerable reason, had declared that judicial elections in Brooklyn were a sham, complete with rigged outcomes orchestrated by the Brooklyn political machine.
Human rights groups condemned the trial of the journalists as a sham, western governments have decried the verdict, and the UN questioned Egypt's judicial independence.
The second sham trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former boss of the Yukos oil company, makes a mockery of judicial independence.
The Brooklyn district attorney, who has called the current system of electing judges a sham, has won indictments against two of the borough's top Democratic officials, accusing them of strong-arming judicial candidates into hiring consultants favored by the party.
