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SOVIET JUDICIARY

IMPROPER SENTENCES

RUSSIA'S ROUGH JUSTICE

("Times" Cable.)

LONDON, October 30,

The-Riga correspondent of "Th« Times" states that the Soviet has ordered the arrest *and- trial of eight Judges in the Urals for offences unique, in Russian annals.

The Judges, regardless as to whether the accused were guilty or innocent, allegedly sentenced to lengthy terms engineers and specialists, thereby ignoring the Government's directidns. Apparently the Judges were unable to keep • pace with the zig-zag policy of justice and applied earlier instructions instead of altering the indictments to permit of milder sentences as required from Moscow. Many improper sentences have novy been quashed.

Thirty Judges and Court officials at Minsk are undergoing trial for passing over-mild sentences in consideration of bribes, for, which the penalty is death.

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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1933, Page 9

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SOVIET JUDICIARY Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1933, Page 9

SOVIET JUDICIARY Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1933, Page 9