1) Rigged court proceeding
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A show trial is a public trial in which there is a strong connotation that the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the defendant. The actual trial has as its only goal to present the accusation and the verdict to the public as an impressive example and as a warning to other would-be dissidents or transgressors. Show trials te...
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Public and well-reported trial of people accused of crimes against the state. In the USSR in the 1930s and 1940s, Stalin carried out show-trial
purges against economic saboteurs, Communist Party...
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http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688
[
n] - a trial held for show
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http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=show%20trial
noun a trial held for show; the guilt of the accused person has been decided in advance
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https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974
Public and well-reported trial of people accused of crimes against the state. In the USSR in the 1930s and 1940s, Stalin carried out show-trial purges against economic saboteurs, Communist Party members, army officers, and even members of the Bolshevik leadership. Andrei Vyshinsky was the Soviet prosecutor for many of the most notorious sho...
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