JUDGES ARRESTED
(Press Assn.-
FAILED TO INTERPRET SOVIET'S IDEAS ON SENTENCES A ZIG-ZAG POLICY
— By Telegraph — Copyright).
(Rec. 7.10 p.m.) London, October 30 The Times' Riga correspondent states that tbe Soviet lias ordered the arrest and trial of eight judges in the Urals for an offence unique in Russian annals. The judges, it is alleged, regardless whether the accqsed were guilty or innocent, sentenced engineers and specialists to lengthy tenns of imprisonment thereby ignoring the Government's directions. Apparently tbe judges were unable to keep pace with the zig-zag policy of justice and applied their earlier instructions instead of altering the indictments to permit of milder sentences as required by Moscow. Many improper sentences have now been quashed. Thirty judges and court officials at Minsk are undergoing trials for passing over-mild sentences for bribes, for which the penalty is death.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 676, 31 October 1933, Page 5
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139JUDGES ARRESTED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 676, 31 October 1933, Page 5
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