(1) Stalin staged a series of show trials.

(2) A series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted regime took place.

(3) Others were executed after swift show trials.

(4) Has the Boesky show trials boom overplayed itself?

(5) The Party, you see, wanted a show trial.

(6) After a brief show trial they were put in solitary confinement in appalling conditions until March this year.

(7) During the Moscow Show Trials in the 1930s, prisoners were forced to publicly recant.

(8) In 1989 he confessed at a show trial to trafficking in gold and ivory, and was shot.

(9) US President Barack Obama called it "a show trial."

(10) "Do those who organised this show trial think that the nation will remain silent to slaughter the nation's best?" it asked.

(11) She has likened the proceedings to a Stalin-era show trial, and accused Mr Yanukovich of trying to turnUkraineinto a Soviet-style prison camp.

(12) A show trial will not help Libya in its understandable passion to lay the foundations for a freer society.

(13) After the show trial was over, I was taken to the police jail at Petrovka 38 in Moscow, and here the procedural violations continued.

(14) Criminal. Why had he agreed to this ludicrous show trial?

(15) He spoke too loudly, and after a Stalinist show trial, he was jailed for six years in the '90s.

(16) Rapidly shaping up as today's main event are the Madchester show trials.

(17) The subsequent crisis in the Soviet system, compounded by the Moscow show trials, exposed the dystopic methods of utopian Communism.

(18) These are more notional than real, as the farcical second show trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oil boss and a Putin rival, which is taking place on Mr Medvedev's watch, demonstrates.

(19) It would be against Ms Tymoshenko's nature not to turn her show trial into political theatre.

(20) Wallace was taken to Dumbarton castle, but quickly moved to London for a show trial in Westminster Hall.

(21) Last week a number of Tibetans were once again sentenced to prison terms of up to nineteen years at a mass show trial, possibly intended to frighten the population before today's event.

(22) If you do not fight war by the Queen's Rules and manage to survive, you risk being "rendered" in a CIA Learjet or given a show trial in The Hague.