Show trial

When people get accused, there will be a trial. Usually, the trial is there to see if the person is guilty, and if this is the case, what the punishment should

Show trial
Clotilde Reiss, a French student doing a master's degree In Isfahan. She was arrested an put on trial for taking part in the protets against the presidential election in Iran, in 2009. In 2010, Reiss was allowed to leave Iran.

When people get accused, there will be a trial. Usually, the trial is there to see if the person is guilty, and if this is the case, what the punishment should be. A show trial is different: the question whether the person is guilty (called a verdict) has been made before. The trial is held so that accusations and the verdict can be presented to the public, serving as an example and a warning to other would-be dissidents or transgressors.[1]

Show trials tend to be retributive rather than corrective, and they are also conducted for propagandistic purposes.[2] When aimed at individuals on the basis of protected classes or characteristics, show trials are examples of political persecution. The term was first recorded in 1928.[3]

A similar concept is "kangaroo court".

References

  1. ↑ OED (2014): "show trial".
  2. ↑ "SHOW TRIAL | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "Definition of SHOW TRIAL". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.

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