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Throughout the trial, Bo flatly denied most of the corruption charges, often professed ignorance of the facts, and claimed to be unable to recall any details of the matters in question.
The trial transcripts create an impression of a man who, had he not gone into politics, would have excelled as a trial lawyer.
A logical question to ask, then, is why the Party allowed an unprecedented degree of openness at the trial.
While the trial proceedings on the first day were refreshingly open by Chinese standards, that quickly changed.
Even more disturbing, on the second day of the trial, the Chinese police formally arrested Xu Zhiyong, a human-rights lawyer who was leading a campaign to force mandatory disclosure of the wealth of senior officials and their family members.
So there must be a different – and more political – interpretation of the Chinese government’s handling of Bo’s trial.
His patrons and allies could not save him, but they were well positioned to demand that his trial be conducted as openly as possible.
He could have groveled his way through the trial, like other senior Party officials brought down by corruption scandals, and as most defendants have done in the long grim history of communist show trials beginning with Stalin.
His botched – but riveting – trial may be over, but the Bo Xilai show will go on.
The trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the possible bankruptcy of his company Yukos, Russia's biggest company, have incited cries that President Putin is returning the country to the bad old days of dictatorship.
But this convention guarantees freedom from detention until trial and conviction, except for “grave offenses.”
Strasbourg’s Trial of StrengthLONDON: The withdrawal of the censure vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on January 14th, which would have forced the resignation of all of the members of the Council of Ministers, should not be judged simply on whether such a vote was won or lost, but mainly as a fundamental turning point in the relationship between the European Parliament and the Commission.
The immediate consequence of this week’s trial of strength is that the Member States will be compelled to offer the Parliament a more moderate alternative to the use of the "nuclear weapon".
A Seismic CrimeNEW YORK – Few people outside Italy are aware that six seismologists and a government official are on trial in the small city of L’Aquila.
Italy’s National Commission for Prediction and Prevention of Major Risks, which comprised the seven men now on trial, met in L’Aquila for one hour on March 31, 2009, to assess the earthquake swarms.
The trial began last September, and is expected to last for months, if not years.
Witnesses who had testified at his trial later said that prosecutors had coerced them.
Even death-penalty supporters protested against his execution, saying that he should be given a new trial.
There is no underplaying the significance of the court’s unanimous decision to convict the first Philippine president ever to undergo a criminal trial.
Pogge and Hollis have now refined their proposal to the point that it is ready for a real-world trial.
With this approach, research can begin in as little as three weeks, compared to the 34 weeks, on average, for a standard trial.
Add to that our ability to analyze data more quickly, and to make more precise decisions about dosing, and the clinical trial timeframe shrinks considerably.
The program’s effectiveness will be evaluated by a randomized control trial comparing the data of patients who participated with those who did not.
Perhaps Tymoshenko herself did not understand how sharply her country had turned away from democratic norms when she mocked Yanukovych and her opponents during her trial.
Perhaps Yanukovych himself did not foresee the consequences of Tymoshenko’s arrest, trial, and imprisonment.
The NTC’s paralysis is clearly reflected in the trial of Qaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi.
Ahmad Jihani, Libya’s representative to the International Criminal Court, recently told me that, “we as Libyans cannot begin Saif’s trial.
Similarly, regardless of the outcome of DSK’s trial in New York, the case might represent a turning point in the treatment of women in Europe.
Tymoshenko was arrested in August 2011 and, after what was widely seen as a show trial, received a seven-year prison sentence for “abuse of power” (though she was not accused of benefiting personally) over a 2009 natural-gas deal with Russia.
Zhou’s fall came not long after the trial and imprisonment of Bo Xilai, a candidate for Standing Committee membership who may have been planning a coup against Xi.
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