On 7 July 1945, he was sentenced in his absence by Special Council of the NKVD to an eight year term in a labour camp.

He also asked how many police officers had been tried, convicted and punished, and for which offences.

We have files proving the existence of Lebanese in Syrian jails (aside from those tried following a felony or a crime) and we have a strategy and mechanisms to act...

After a three day chase, on Christmas Day, the dictator and his wife were captured, tried, and summarily executed by a kangaroo people s court.

If Hitler had been alive in October 1945, the 21 indictees who were in fact tried at Nuremberg would not have been let off the hook.

Until we get our hands on those fugitives it will be very difficult to predict the length of the mandate, unless we can foresee now that those individuals still at large may never be arrested, in which case it would be necessary to try them in absentia.

The first tranche of 26 prisoners all of them tried and convicted by Israeli courts for their involvement in the killing of Israelis were released from custody in July, ahead of the second round of talks.

Of the more than 220,000 people arrested on drug charges since Calderón took office, three quarters have been released. Only 5 of the remaining 60,000 or so have been tried and sentenced.

On November 11, 1955, the French discovered the names of those involved in the struggle, and transferred the members imprisoned at Béni Abbès to Béchar, or Serkadji prison if they had been tried.

Though the conviction has since been overturned by Guatemala s Constitutional Court, Ríos Montt joins dozens of former heads of state and government leaders who have been prosecuted for gross abuses of human rights since the ICTY was established.

The sentences they have received vary between 1 12 years. Activists insist they have not had fair trials, just like the rest of those prosecuted in Bahrain since pro democracy protests shook the nation.

The life of each one of the 1,000 plus Egyptians killed when the Salam 98 ferry sank in 2006 is worth about 11 hours in prison for ferry owner, former lawmaker and business tycoon Mamdouh Ismail, who has been sentenced in absentia to seven years behind bars for involuntary slaughter, say Egyptian bloggers.

Human rights organizations knew that Obama had prepared the way, in public relations terms, for some criminal trials talking up the supermax security of some US prisons, and noting that other terrorists have successfully been tried by America s justice system.