"Andrei Sakharov was clearly warned not to keep bringing socialism into disrepute, so he practically arrested himself." --UK Twitter today.
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Secret trials are hard to defend in a social environment in which all institutional trust has evaporated.
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... "The judiciary and the media totally have this." "Yes, that's what we're worried about."
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They're not secret. Anyone can turn up, throughout the trial, make notes, and publish everything they like as soon as the trial ends, exactly like any other trial at all.
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It's notable while every level of the British state system from Parliament to police to charities have utterly disgraced themselves on this issue, the courts have actually done a decent job; lots of convictions and (by British standards) long sentences.
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Also, while the "respectable" press have tried to downplay, the mass media have not been even slightly shy about their reporting.https://twitter.com/anomalyuk/status/1000731524789166081 …
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That trial he was complaining was being hushed up was, like any other important trial, full of journalists taking notes and writing their stories. Those stories will be published the day the trial ends, because that's the law.
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