Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defendants in the revolutionary courts are tried under the Shari'a, the Islamic law based primarily on the Koran, rather than under Iran's penal code. Trials are conducted by a five-man panel of judges. Verdicts in the trials, some of which have lasted less than an hour, are reached by a majority vote of the judges; the sentence is handed down by the senior judge, whose appointment is approved by Khomeini, and carried out immediately. There are no appeals. The new regulations allow for defense attorneys, though none were seen at last week's trials...
Queen Marie Antoinette followed her husband to the guillotine in October. By that time, the Committee of Public Safety, a panel of revolution aries appointed to watch over the country's internal security, had taken over the government of France. Under the pressures of war from Britain, The Netherlands, Austria and Prussia, and the threat of civil war in the provinces, the Committee condemned hundreds of aristocrats, clergymen and ordinary folk to their death on charges of plotting counterrevolutionary activities. Justice was rough, swift and harsh. Wit nesses were summoned at the discretion of the courts, defendants were refused...
Many in the audience objected that women were not represented on the panel. "It would be grossly inaccurate to say that women weren't involved in the movement," Mary Jo Connolly said during a question period...
Adrian Wesley, a member of the ad hoc committee to commemorate the strike which organized the panel, said she considered the makeup of the panel a "significant problem." "We looked for people who were visible, who were discussed in the major works about the strike. I am disconcerted, if not appalled, to find the way our biaswarped the panel," Wesley said...
...panel also discussed current campus movements. "There is no overriding issue as completely compelling as the war in Indochina," Ansara, the director of Massachusetts Fair Share, said. He added, however, the "job which we began in the sixties remains to be finished" and listed Afro-American Studies, University investments in South Africa, the antinuclear movement and course curriculum as issues that deserve for student attention...