revolutionary tribunal
Regime change judiciary
A revolutionary tribunal is a court established during or after a revolution to try political enemies of the new regime.
The term evokes summary justice—proceedings that prioritize ideological correctness over legal procedure.
The French Revolution's tribunals sent thousands to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror: She was hauled before the revolutionary tribunal on charges of hoarding grain.
Similar bodies have appeared in other revolutions, from Russia to Iran.
- JacobinsFrench revolutionary faction
- summary justiceImmediate punishment without trial
- swift justiceRapid legal punishment
- death sentenceJudicial order of execution
- public enemyWidely known criminal threat
enemy of the people · judge · martial law · political purges · class struggle · political trials · authoritarianism · witness · radicalism · Spanish Civil War · Khmer Rouge · state terror · bloody hands · mob rule · show trial · people's court · kangaroo court · prisoner
revolutionary tribunalfair trial
Impartial judicial proceeding
due process · constitutional court · court of law · appellate court · supreme court
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