nov 25, 1926 - Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State + OVRA

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Special Tribunal was the institution that gave out sentences w/out a fair trial,

1926-43: 21 K people tried (but 3/4 of them acquitted),
average sentence was 5 years,

1922-43: 5 K imprisoned
+ 10 K exiled to remote islands (confino)
(e.g. the Rosselli brothers)

OVRA was the state Secret Police:
employed ~50 K agents,
20 K actions weekly,
hundreds of arrests and dententions weekly

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