Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behind bars

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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