Show trial
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The term show trial is a pejorative description of a type of highly 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 tend to be retributive rather than correctional justice and also conducted for propagandistic purposes. The term was first recorded in the 1930s.
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- 1415 trial of Jan Hus, Konstanz
- 1431 trial of Joan of Arc, Rouen
- 1649 trial of Charles I of England (by the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I)
- 1792 trial of Louis XVI during the French Revolution
- 1894 Trial of the Thirty, Paris
- 1948 trial and execution of Shafiq Ades, Iraq
- 1949 show trial and execution of László Rajk, under Hungary's communist regime
- 1953 Stalinist show trial of the Kraków Curia, Poland
- 1953 trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, USA
- 1981 trial of the Gang of Four in China
- 1984 televised trial and execution of Al-Sadek Hamed Al-Shuwehdy in Libya
- 2009 Iran poll protests trial of over 140 defendants
- 2009 (June 4) trial of Euna Lee and Laura Ling in North Korea
- 2010 trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia
- Eastern Bloc politics
- NKVD troika, sentencing by extrajudicial commission
- Posthumous trial
- Kangaroo court: a sham legal proceeding
- Witch-hunt, hunting down people of a certain race/trait/profession/political conviction for doing or saying something sinful
- Political trial, a criminal trial with political implications.
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