Uninterrupted interrogation for days on end and merciless beatings were widely used to force prisoners to confess their alleged "counter-revolutionary crimes".

Kung had been released from prison in 1985 after serving 30 years for "counter-revolutionary" crimes [see p. 33724].

I thought you were in trouble" came out as "Confess your counter-revolutionary crimes before the tribunal!

Talked about my counter-revolutionary crimes from 10 to 12 o'clock.

Failure to report a counter-revolutionary crime could be punishable by up to ten years in prison.

He was arrested by the Communist Chinese government in 1955 and sentenced to sixteen years of hard labor for "counter-revolutionary crimes."

In his "Secret Speech", Nikita Khrushchev said that between 1936 and 1937, the number of arrests for counter-revolutionary crimes grew ten times.

The latter point is particularly relevant with regard to the death penalty and the situation of dissidents convicted for so-called counter-revolutionary crimes.

Zhang Jingsheng was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment in December 1989 for 'counter-revolutionary' crimes during the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations.

In 1958 he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for "counter-revolutionary crimes".