CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: But Was the Cause of Justice Served?

he trial is finally over for the Occupy Nine. As expected, guilty verdicts were declared all around, and prison sentences handed down. The authorities took years to prepare their case and 20 days to argue it in court late last year. Verdicts were announced on April 9, and sentences on April 24. In the dock were the …

THE SURRENDER OF FUGITIVE OFFENDERS: Another Lost Cause?

It seemed like old times:  last Sunday’s afternoon protest march, organized on short notice by the Civil Human Rights Front in its role as coordinator for every major protest since 2003. Only this time the rally was for an obscure cause that had lain dormant since 1997.  Yet like many such low-key events, turnout was …