Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behind bars

Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by rorrr2 on Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:27AM (#6063090)

That's Russia for you. Anybody going against the corrupt ruling party is either killed or imprisoned.

Actually, it's worse than that. The conviction rate in Russia is something like 99%, meaning that if you get charged with a crime, you will be found guilty. There are judges that have NEVER issued an innocent verdict in their career.

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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by timw6n on Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:39AM (#6063152)

Which is not actually that different from the US, where the conviction rate is 93%, of which 97% accepted a plea bargain prior to trial.

Source: http://www.justice.gov/usao/reading_room/reports/asr2011/11s...

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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by anonymfus on Thursday July 18, 2013 @09:34AM (#6063488)

By itself conviction rate is not indicator because there are different requirements for charges in different countries. It's called "inquisitorial legal system" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system ).

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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by yread on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:02AM (#6063653)

Japan has 99.97%

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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by Tyr42 on Thursday July 18, 2013 @11:40AM (#6064319)

That's because they drop any case that they have a chance of losing, since it reflects poorly on them.

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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by Zikes on Thursday July 18, 2013 @11:56AM (#6064461)

Part of their strategy is also to conclude that almost any murder is a suicide, which artificially inflates those statistics quite a bit.

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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by Torgo on Thursday July 18, 2013 @12:49PM (#6064807)

I have seen assertions over the years that forced confessions are common too. No idea how to even verify this, though.

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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by spindritf on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:35AM (#6063877)

> Anybody going against the corrupt ruling party is either killed or imprisoned.

That's not true. Quite a few live in exile.

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