On Wednesday, Mr. Polanski said in a statement that he was undertaking the Dreyfus film as a way to teach a contemporary lesson about "the age-old spectacle of the witch hunt of a minority group, security paranoia, secret military tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, governmental cover-ups and a rabid press".
In a statement (via The New York Times), Polanski said the movie was about "the age-old spectacle of the witch hunt of a minority group, security paranoia, secret military tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, governmental cover-ups and a rabid press".
Even by the lax standards of Washington political rhetoric, the recurring debate over military tribunals stands out as especially unmoored from reality.
He was exonerated in a court martial that inquired into the event, although the tribunal pointed out that Howe should have made a stand at the bluffs or more directly opposed the landing.
An employment tribunal struck out her claim on the basis of a preliminary ruling in the Spanish case.
(One member of a war-crimes tribunal turned out to have few qualifications other than being the cousin of his country's president).
An electoral tribunal threw out a flimsy claim of fraud brought by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who came second; Mr López Obrador called for civil disobedience.
For months now, Hezbollah has sought to discredit the tribunal, pointing out that it took testimony from witnesses whose accounts later proved false.
Brilliant news that an immigration appeals tribunal threw out Theresa May's absurd attempt to deport the boat race protester, Trenton Oldfield.
In November 2012, a tax tribunal threw out an Ernst & Young inspired scheme that enabled Iliffe News and Media to create a new asset – newspaper mastheads.
That cannot be right and we hope that the tribunal sends out a strong message that discrimination has no place in any form in the workplace".
