Kangaroo court ( English kangaroo court ) - an English idiom , meaning an illegal, unfair trial , lynching, a staging of the court, a parody of justice. This expression is often used in relation to a court, which, formally following the procedure, passes a quick and pre-prepared sentence .
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History
Historically, the term originated in California ( USA ) during the Gold Rush and was first mentioned in 1853 [1] . Apparently, it was meant that the judicial procedure is moving very fast, jumping like a kangaroo [2] .
Practice
Examples of the "kangaroo court" are in many countries. For example, in Iraq in 1958, during the time of Colonel Abdul-Karim Kassem, the trial usually lasted 15 minutes and ended with the death penalty [3] .
The “Kangaroo Court” is also characterized by the [4] Russell International Tribunal for the Investigation of War Crimes Committed in Vietnam [5] .
As a “kangaroo court”, Ken Good, columnist for the British Guardian newspaper, views the trial with prisoners at the American military base Guantanamo [6] .
A similar idiom in Russia is “ Shemyakin court ”, and in the 21st century - “ Basmanny justice ”
Mention in art
In the fictional Star Trek universe, the judicial system of the Cardassian civilization is built on the “kangaroo court” - all sentences are known in advance, and the court is only a form of its pronouncement.
See also
- Tuvian, Meir
- Military court
- Show trial
Notes
- ↑ Kangaroo court
- ↑ " kangaroo court " dictionary.com
- ↑ Hussein faces “kangaroo court”
- ↑ Israel slammed at Russell Tribunal (unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 9, 2014. Archived November 10, 2011.
- ↑ Jens David Ohlin "A Meta-Theory of International Criminal Procedure" - 14 UCLA J. INT'L L. & FOREIGN AFF. 77 (2009) p. 101
- ↑ Guantánamo's kangaroo court
Links
- kangaroo court , multitran dictionary
- The president of Radio Free Europe called the trial of Nosir Zokirov a “kangaroo court” , 08/31/2005
- E. Blankenburg, H. Shepel. "Mobilization of the European Court." Per. from English I. A. Meyer under the scientific. ed. L.V. Boytsova.//European legal cultures. No. 1 (1). Moscow: Lawyer, 2002. - Page 113-150