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Their heads covered with ceremonial hoods, the four condemned prisoners were buried chest-deep in the earth just outside the town of Kerman in southern Iran. After the presiding Islamic judge had cast the first stone, five other people began pelting the hooded figures with rocks, some as large as...
In a crowded Tehran courtroom, five frightened defendants faced the empty bench. The judge, a scowling, bearded figure who was also acting as prosecutor, circled behind them and cursed, "I shall exterminate you vermin!" Then, without permitting a word to be spoken in their defense, he meted out the sentences...
KGB headquarters in Moscow is a grim, gray, seven-story stone building at No. 2 Dzerzhinsky Square; in tsarist times it housed the All-Russian Insurance Co. Behind the headquarters is the most celebrated KGB structure, Lubyanka Prison, through which tens of thousands of Soviet citizens have passed on their...
Among convicted officials, Guan is one of the very few to suffer the extreme penalty of execution. Most of the others have been dismissed from their posts or jailed, with the stiffest penalties going to those who tried to blame underlings. In Zhejiang province, one commune party secretary named Ji...
Urban Cowboy is one of those movies that are all packaging and no execution. To put the matter more harshly, the elements that must have made it commercially attractive to its producers, and surely built up the public's anticipation of it, have been distorted and attenuated to the...