Users can protest the strikes, but only via a kangaroo court which is not designed to let users win.

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But Cambodia's court system is so weak and politically subservient that the trials would almost certainly be dismissed as a kangaroo court.

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His calm manner, his respect for the defence lawyers, helped to persuade doubters that this was not a kangaroo court with a foregone verdict.

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"It's a kangaroo court providing judicial cover for the persecution of activists, and even ordinary citizens, by Syria's security agencies, " said HRW's Sarah Leah Whitson.

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He constantly monologizes on the wealthy who have taken everything from the people of Gotham, and encourages people to rob them, destroy their homes, and try them before a kangaroo court run by a more-eccentric-than-usual scarecrow.

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Mr Mandelson's friends, who are conducting his defence while he takes a holiday, say that he was subjected to a kangaroo court composed of Jonathan Powell, the Downing Street chief of staff, Sir Richard Wilson, the cabinet secretary and the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg.

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Mr Imperato had also opposed the creation of LDPs, saying they risked becoming a "kangaroo court".

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Mr Gibson's local constituency party has defended him, saying he was the victim of a "kangaroo court".

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They must look the other way when Putin orders a second kangaroo court for jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

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His private life is his and not a subject of discussion at Kenneth Starr's kangaroo court.

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