It offers information on the victims of the political prosecutions, which according to some estimates affected up to 14% of the population.

They especially fear that Americans abroad could become subject to political prosecution.

This rarely happened; there were no major political trials under Khrushchev, and at most several hundred political prosecutions overall.

"This was a political prosecution, and it should never have taken place," Senator D'Amato said yesterday.

- similarly hammered away at the theme that it was a political prosecution.

The case of the Wilmington Ten received international condemnation as a political prosecution.

"We don't need a political prosecution," he said.

He won't fire US attorneys for refusing to undertake highly political prosecutions.

The entire political prosecution and the trial were staged by the authorities as it was typical for the Soviet State at that time.

His work Démocratie (1859) led to a political prosecution and imprisonment.