Aliyev’s Show Trials Echo Stalin’s Tactics in Suppressing Opposition: Luis Moreno Ocampo

By Luis Moreno Ocampo First prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2003 to 2012 Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has resurrected one of Joseph Stalin's most sinister tools: the show trial. Just as Stalin's purges in the 1930s relied on forced ...