The farcical trial!

Some five minutes later, the enormous room where the farcical trial had been held was empty and dark.

Sigismund betrayed his promise - he is supposed to have blushed when confronted with the fact - and, after a farcical trial, Hus was burned.

Refusing to participate in what he felt was a farcical trial, Wali Khan did not take part in his own legal defense.

It was a farcical trial.

About eighty democracy activists have been arrested and sentenced, following farcical trials, to very long prison sentences.

Leading figures in the democracy movement were arrested and, after farcical trials, 75 of them were sentenced to long prison terms.

They are among the 38 political prisoners found guilty on 11 June of this year in a farcical trial in which they were not able to present their defences.

All of the circumstances surrounding the farcical trial which took place are extremely suspicious and it is not clear how the uprising itself began or developed.

The whole farcical trial?