Problem
Show trials
Nature:
A show trial is a judicial travesty whose real purpose is to manufacture propaganda.
Incidence:
An especially clumsy example was the sentencing in Indonesia in 1993 of an East Timor rebel leader to life imprisonment, part of a continuing campaign to justify Indonesian annexation in 1975 of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. The presiding judge spent seven hours reading a 250-page verdict, but the accused was unable to read his own 27-page defence because it was deemed "irrelevant". Human rights groups can recall no previous political trial in Indonesia in which the defence statement was suppressed by judges.
Broader Problems:
Unjust trialsPolitical trialsGovernment propagandaPolitical discrimination in the administration of justice Narrower Problems:
Forced political confessions Related Problems:
Public executions Aggravates:
Mistrust of system of justice Subject(s):
Law → Tribunals, courtsRelated UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST