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Doing so would highlight the famous case of former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose political ambitions alone landed him in prison, and who has been declared, after a second trial, a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.
Those in jail must be released or given a fair trial.
The head of Nikolic’s party, Vojislav Seselj, is in the dock in The Hague facing trial for war crimes.
The Trovan trial nonetheless caused a storm of controversy, for two reasons.
He gave evidence at the trial.
After he seized power, Che put to death five hundred “enemies” of the revolution without trial, or even much discrimination.
For the first time, an entire state leadership was put on trial for its crimes, as its representatives and henchmen were brought to justice.
Given this history, the prosecution of Zhou is a watershed event – far more significant than the riveting trial of the disgraced former Chongqing Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai a year ago.
In 2011, a trial funded by the Gates Foundation found that straight couples using Truvada reduced the risk of transmitting HIV by 73%.
Once a verdict is reached in Dokubu’s trial, probably this summer, violence is expected to intensify.
With simpler structures made up of small numbers of atoms, chemistry could provide considerable guidance as to the atomic arrangements, and a solution could thus often be found by trial and error.
The idea that it is a crime to initiate a war of aggression goes back at least to 1919, when the Treaty of Versailles provided for Kaiser Wilhelm II to stand trial for “a supreme offense against international morality.”
It is unlikely that Bush, or any member of his administration, will ever stand trial for the crime of initiating a war of aggression.
The obvious venue for such a trial is the International Criminal Court.
After a perfunctory closed trial, they were sentenced to seven and six years in prison, respectively.
Venter and his team created their organism through a process of trial and error.
It’s clear that the relentless Mueller pressured Manafort into cooperating to avoid a second costly trial.
– nor afford another trial.
Bo Xilai Between the Dragon and His WrathLONDON – After a year of unexplained delay, the trial of Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party secretary of Chongqing municipality, is finally about to begin.
A trial such as Bo’s is invariably part of a political deal among insiders.
These are times of trial and upheaval that call for such daring.
Lugo’s defense occupied less than two hours of a five-hour trial in the Senate.
Many who agree that Milosevic is a war criminal now think that we should listen to the voices coming from Belgrade and their cry that Milosevic should face trial before his own people.
In this way the trial will gain more legitimacy and credibility, especially among the many Serbs who still need to be educated in order to realize the true extent of Milosevic's crimes.
The lessons from any trial of Milosevic should be taught to Serbia's citizens by Serbian judges, within a normative system that most Serbs accept as legitimate.
Thailand’s Stunted TransitionBANGKOK – One year after Thailand’s 12th military coup in its 83 years under constitutional rule, and as the controversial trial for criminal negligence of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gets under way, the country’s future is perilously uncertain.
Generals ordered to use chemical weapons would have to reckon with the prospect that the regime could, actually, fall, and that they then might find themselves on trial for war crimes.
Confronting continued, albeit fraying sanctions, Qadaffi threw his weight behind the pragmatists, turning the Lockerbie bombers over to face trial, renouncing the terrorism that he had promoted, and expelling the foreign terrorists who made Libya their home.
Before the proceedings began, the conventional wisdom was that Bo’s trial had been carefully scripted and rehearsed to portray a forlorn and penitent sinner confessing his crimes and apologizing to the Party.
But the historic five-day trial dispelled any notion that Bo would go quietly to his cell in Beijing’s infamous Qincheng Prison, where China’s fallen top leaders are incarcerated.
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