RUSSIAN JUSTICE.
ZIG-ZAG POLICY. JUDGES’ PREDICAMENT. (Times Cables.) LONDON, Oct. 30. The Riga correspondent of the 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 directions. 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 now 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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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 286, 31 October 1933, Page 7
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127RUSSIAN JUSTICE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 286, 31 October 1933, Page 7
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