Colonial prosecutors moved trials away from imperial capitals to dampen public attention

Evidence

Legal battles, however, continued over the trial venue. The defence lawyers wanted the trial to take place in Calcutta, while the government wanted it in Patna, presumably to remove the proceedings from the limelight of the imperial capital. — Julia Stephens, The Phantom Wahhabi, 101

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘venue as censorship’ — how forum selection has been used across empires and modern jurisdictions to bury politically awkward trials.