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	Discourse.net: The Secret Attack on the Right to an Open Court
		According to press reports, similar secret trial tactics have been used by federal prosecutors to shield cooperating drug dealers from mention in public court documents that might blow their cover and end their use as operatives in ongoing undercover narcotics sting operations.
		It was a full trial in the sense that the district court heard the habeas motion and decided it in secret.
		A habeas corpus proceeding is not a trial.
	www.discourse.net /archives/2003/11/the_secret_attack_on_the_right_to_an_open_court.html (2312 words)

	Secret trial -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A secret trial is a ((law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal) trial that is not open to the public, nor reported in the news.
		Secret trials have been a characteristic of almost every (A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)) dictatorship of the (The present or recent times) modern era.
		The presiding judge of the Moscow Trials, (Click link for more info and facts about Vasili Ulrikh) Vasili Ulrikh, also presided over large numbers of secret trials lasting only a few minutes, in which he would quickly speak his way through a pre-formulated charge and verdict.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/se/secret_trial.htm (301 words)

	Secret Trials and Executions: Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy
		In "Secret Trial and Executions", Barbara Olshansky, Assistant Legal Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, examines the Military Order signed by the Bush Regime on November 13th 2001, that effectively suspended constitutional rights for all non citizens living in the United States and subjected them to arrest, secret trials, and secret executions.
		Secret Trials And Executions: Military Tribunals And The Threat To Democracy by Barbara Olshansky (Assistant Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights) is a serious-minded and somewhat startling examination of the Bush administration's "Military Order" in the wake of the September 11th attacks.
		According to Secret Trials and Executions, this executive order and its call for secret trial proceedings in which charges, evidence, and verdicts never need be revealed to the public is a dangerous transition toward a form of totalitarian government which can tyrannize the American people at will.
	www.golfbugs.com /GolfBookstore/isbn1583225374.html (741 words)

	Secret Trial by Military Commission Is Not Justice
		Trials by military commission will prove disastrous - to the war against terrorism, to the U.S. Constitution and to the rule of law.
		But if the public relations war is as important as the military war, as allies and the administration insist, such trials would give the enemy a victory of enormous proportions.
		Trial by military commission is not justice - at least not justice as the United States understands it and preaches it to the world.
	www.commondreams.org /views01/1119-01.htm (778 words)

	Nigeria: A travesty of justice: secret trials and other concerns
		After the trial of 22 defendants opened in June, further defendants were brought before the Tribunal but their numbers and identities were not revealed and the trials continued to be held in secret.
		The trials appear to have been carried out within days of their being informed of the charges against them, and to have been completed too hastily for serious testing and consideration of the evidence.
		The trials were conducted in complete secrecy, with the press only allowed in on the first day of the trial of the first 22 defendants.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/nigeria/document.do?id=2F6789997B756A3B802569A50071588E (8642 words)

	Iran: Time for judicial reform and an end to secret trials - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		We are calling for immediate commutation of the death sentences, urgent clarification of the names of those sentenced, fair re-trials and the release of all those held for their peaceful participation in the demonstrations," said Amnesty International.
		Trial proceedings in Islamic Revolutionary Courts fall far short of international standards for fair trial.
		Amnesty International is alarmed at such a public presumption of guilt before trial proceedings have even begun and fears that this trial may also be conducted in secrecy and result in death sentences for the accused.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/ENGMDE130251999 (521 words)

	Secret Trials Endanger Security
		The right to a trial by jury: A defendant must be tried by "a jury of his peers" so that he isn't judged by people who can gain personally by convicting him.
		The right to a public trial: If the prosecutors, judges, and juries can't be seen and judged by the public, they can short-circuit a fair trial.
		And those who say "terrorists have forfeited their rights" are forgetting the most important point: Without a fair, open trial, you can't be sure the accused person really is a terrorist.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/browne13.html (665 words)

	Secret Trials in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Charges may be kept secret, and could be based on unfounded allegations from the country from which the foreign national came.
		Secret proceedings could be initiated by the Attorney General, upon a charge that a non-citizen has "engaged in terrorist activities," by application to one of five judges designated by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to hear such cases.
		Trials before the State Security Court, which convened on an ad hoc basis to handle cases deemed of an internal security nature, did not meet international standards for fair trial.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1991/us (2179 words)

	Secret Trials - No One Is Illegal - Toronto
		On Day 83 of his hunger strike, secret trial detainee Mohammad Mahjoub has finally received the news he has been waiting for since June, 26, 2000, when he was arrested on a secret trial security certificate.
		Secret trial detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mahmoud Jaballah, and Hassan
		MARCH 20, 2006, TORONTO -- Canada's new Minister for Deportations, Secret Trials, Arbitrary Detention, and Deportation to Torture, Monte Solberg (whose official title is Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) received a free teach-in on torture today as part of a luncheon where he was supposed to be the guest speaker.
	toronto.nooneisillegal.org /taxonomy/term/20 (1322 words)

	Secret trials that crippled 55 babies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Fifty-five babies died or were permanently brain-damaged during secret government trials to test a new vaccine for whooping cough, the Daily Express can reveal.
		The trials were conducted on thousands of pre-school children even though the drug was at a highly experimental stage.
		The trials, based in London, Bradford, Newcastle and Liverpool, were carried out by the Medical Research Council between 1948 and 1956.
	www.datafilter.com /mc/c_babiesCrippledInVaccineTrials.html (435 words)

	TST: Military Tribunals Put Our Justice System on Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		It is one thing to hold a military-style trial for an enemy captured in conflict abroad, and I don't think many would argue otherwise.
		Many have cited three-ring circus celebrity trials in the past as justification for secret trials of suspected terrorists.
		Secret trials might be more orderly, that is true, but ask anyone who has suffered under a totalitarian regime whether is it worth sacrificing justice for "efficiency."
	www.house.gov /paul/tst/tst2001/tst120301.htm (647 words)

	Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Inside Stalin's Secret Trials: A Riveting New Account of Soviet Anti-Semitism
		At the volume's core is the grimly fascinating transcript of the secret trials, brought to life in Rubenstein's introduction through chilling interviews with relatives of the accused.
		A state-sanctioned trip by committee members to the United States in 1943 was presented during the trial as espionage; sending propaganda materials to the West was deemed divulging classified information and a request to resettle displaced Holocaust survivors in the Crimea was labeled a sinister plot to declare the region independent from the Soviet Union.
		During the trial, held before a tribunal with no defense lawyers or prosecutors, he tries to reason with the judges.
	www.fsumonitor.com /stories/071801Russia.shtml (754 words)

	Secret trials endanger security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The right to a trial by jury: A defendant must be tried by "a jury of his peers" so that he isn't judged by people who can gain personally by convicting him.
		The right to a public trial: If the prosecutors, judges and juries can't be seen and judged by the public, they can short-circuit a fair trial.
		And those who say "terrorists have forfeited their rights" are forgetting the most important point: Without a fair, open trial, you can't be sure the accused person really is a terrorist.
	www.populistamerica.com /secret_trials_endanger_security (881 words)

	Secret Trials - Human Rights Magazine, Winter 2001
		At the outset of Ahmed's detention, INS officials took the position that the secret evidence against him could not even be summarized but was sufficient to detain him as a national security threat.
		In 1998, INS relied on secret evidence to detain and deny entry to Dr. Karim and several other Iraqis who were accused of being double agents after the U.S. airlifted them from Iraq on the heels of a failed CIA-backed coup attempt against Saddam Hussein.
		In virtually all of the government's secret evidence cases in the 1990s, the aliens targeted were Arabs and/or Muslims.
	www.abanet.org /irr/hr/winter01/cole.html (1739 words)

	Uzbekistan: Unfair trials and secret executions: Summary of the report '"Justice only in heaven" - the death penalty in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Their trials, usually on charges of murder and "terrorism", have taken place amid government accusations of "religious extremism" and have failed to meet international fair trial standards.
		In the trial of two IMU leaders, sentenced to death in their absence, the prosecution reportedly relied on the testimony of convicted prisoners, and state-appointed lawyers put up only a token defence.
		A climate of pervasive corruption undermines the fairness of trials, the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, increasing the likelihood of arbitrary verdicts.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGEUR620122003 (4689 words)

	Law Spot - Secret terrorist trials
		I have read, in a number of publications, that 'secret' tribunals are anathema to Western ideals of justice - in other words, we should be able to see what is happening in criminal trials in order to ensure they are fair.
		As Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Charles Krauthammer has written, the Nuremberg trials were held at the end of the War, when Nazism had been obliterated and the trials were designed in part to document its bankrupt ideology.
		The idea of military trials is far more akin to the secret trials set up by President Roosevelt to deal with suspected Nazi saboteurs during the War.
	www.law4u.com.au /lil/ls_terror_trial.html (913 words)

	GRAIN \| Agricultural research for whom? \| Secret Trials in GM-Free Australia Raise New Fears of Contamination
		So, when she uncovered secret trials of GM canola in Victoria, a state that has an official moratorium on the crop until 2008, she was on the warpath again.
		The way she uncovered those secret trials was ingenious.
		She had aerial photographs taken of suspected sites, which she posted on the Network's website, asking farmers to come forward to identify the fields and to state whether they were GM trials.
	www.grain.org /research/contamination.cfm?id=223 (730 words)

	Inside Guantanamo's Secret Trials
		The case is part of a wrenching battle in the US courts that goes to the heart of the war on terrorism and its legality.
		The Bush administration has argued that holding detainees without trial is imperative for national security, but lawyers for the Guantanamo Bay inmates argue that the detentions have no basis in law.
		We were struck by the cursory nature of the questioning, and the absence of an attempt to reconcile conflicting claims as to what the young, sullen detainee had actually done.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines05/0408-07.htm (1234 words)

	[TinhThuong36] Secret trials in Vietnam - VietPage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		He was put on trial on October 16, 2001 and sentenced to 5 year in prison.
		He was put on trial on October 16, 2001 and sentenced to 3 year in prison.
		He was put on trial on October 16, 2001 and sentenced to 2 year in prison.
	www.vietpage.com /archive_news/politics/2001/Nov/7/0198.html (714 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Britain considers secret terrorist trials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		They include secret trials in which judges and lawyers would be cleared beforehand by the intelligence services.
		There is also a proposal to allow judges to convict suspects on a lower standard of proof than in normal criminal trials, where guilt must be proven "beyond reasonable doubt." The proposal would allow judges to convict if they thought "on a balance of probabilities" a suspect was guilty.
		Under legislation passed after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, foreign suspects may be detained indefinitely without charge or trial if authorities can prove they have "reasonable grounds to suspect" the detainees have links to terrorism.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/02/02/britain_considers_secret_terrorist_trials (479 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| Gareth Peirce: Blunkett's covert experiment in injustice
		David Blunkett, adopting the same dangerous justification of the means justifying the end, this week proposes trials based on evidence that will never see the light of day, the abolition of juries, substitution by judges, and a reversal of the burden of proof so that suspicion is enough.
		Now the home secretary says he wishes to extend secret hearings to all those accused of the mere suspicion of terrorism, even though short of evidence that could be proved beyond reasonable doubt in a public trial before a jury.
		What is happening in Guantanamo; what is happening in the secret hearings with foreign nationals already taking place in this country; and what is proposed for the future, is in the nature of an ongoing experiment.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1140431,00.html (1199 words)

	The Greens (WA) - Greens reject "secret trials" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Greens Senator Kerry Nettle rejected British proposals for secret trials being considered by the government as having "no place in a democracy".
		Now the government is considering whether people held in secret should be subject to secret trial as well," Senator Nettle said.
		This proposal for secret trials must be rejected.
	wa.greens.org.au /items/Media_Release.2004-02-27.4335 (137 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- SEAL takes stand in prisoner abuse hearing
		He gave his testimony as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors – a deal worked out shortly before he was scheduled for a preliminary hearing on charges that he punched and kicked prisoners and intentionally broke their fingers.
		The witness – a hospital corpsman whose name and age were kept secret from the public – testified at the San Diego Naval Station against a fellow SEAL who faces charges of punching, kicking and twisting the testicles of prisoners while his unit served in Iraq.
		His fellow SEAL – an aviation boatswain's mate whose name and age haven't been disclosed – faces up to 11 years in prison and dishonorable discharge if he is court-martialed and convicted of all the charges, prosecutors said yesterday.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/20041030-9999-2m30seal.html (712 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Injustice, in Secret
		ATTORNEYS FOR the Justice Department appeared before a federal judge in Washington this month and asked him to dismiss a lawsuit over the detention of a U.S. citizen, basing their request not merely on secret evidence but also on secret legal arguments.
		The government contends that the legal theory by which it would defend its behavior should be immune from debate in court.
		Most recently, it urged that the case be dismissed on the basis, yet again, of secret evidence -- this time supplemented with what a Justice Department lawyer termed "legal argument [that] itself cannot be made public without disclosing the classified information that underlies it."
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A40624-2005Feb20?language=printer (346 words)

	Shunpiking Dossier on Security Certificates and Secret Trials in Canada: National Day of Action to Stop Secret Trials ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		TORONTO (October 2003) -- The use of secret evidence, a hallmark of dictatorial regimes, is growing in Canada.
		The Campaign to Stop Secret Trials is a collection of individuals and groups who have been working for a number of years to support the families of those detained under the CSIS security certificate (some may know of our work under the name of Homes not Bombs).
		As part of a national day of action to stop secret trials in Canada, we hope to highlight the CSIS security certificate, the proposed citizenship bill, and other proceedings in which refugees and immigrants are increasingly subject to harsh and repressive measures.
	www.shunpiking.com /DOST/ndc-mb.htm (3449 words)

	Secret trials are not what we stand for - 2001-12-24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The offenses subject to trial are undefined, as are the possible punishments, but individuals may be put to death or subjected to life imprisonment on the vote of two-thirds of the members of the commission.
		Such trials will leave lasting doubts about the fairness and honesty of resulting convictions, especially where the penalty is death.
		The threat of trial in violation of international standards of due process has already denied us, and will continue to deny us, the benefits of extradition and mutual sharing of information from our closest allies.
	denver.bcentral.com /denver/stories/2001/12/24/editorial2.html (973 words)

	portland imc - 2002.04.27 - Much of Britain was exposed to bacteria sprayed in secret trials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In another trial using zinc cadmium sulphide, a generator was towed along a road near Frome in Somerset where it spewed the chemical for an hour.
		However, some families in areas which bore the brunt of the secret tests are convinced the experiments have led to their children suffering birth defects, physical handicaps and learning difficulties.
		While reports of a number of the trials have emerged over the years through the Public Records Office, this latest MoD document - which was released to Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker - gives the fullest official version of the biological warfare trials yet.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2002/04/10022.shtml (1247 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Secret German GM crop trials revealed
		Seven of Germany's 16 states were revealed to be hosting secret trials of genetically modified crops after environmental activists destroyed a field of corn in Saxony-Anhalt, in the east of the country.
		Saxony-Anhalt, which, with Bavaria, is one of two states to admit funding GM crop trials, said five other states were holding trials in 29 secret locations.
		Mr Rehberger said Saxony-Anhalt had set aside €390,000 (£263,000) to fund the trials, of which €240,000 (£162,000) was being held in reserve to compensate farmers for any damage the trials caused.
	www.guardian.co.uk /gmdebate/Story/0,2763,1211329,00.html (448 words)

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