exiled:流亡
overthrow:推翻
dictator:独裁者
with an iron fist:铁腕
legitimate:合法的
jail:入狱
was taken into custody:被拘留
in a trial condemned as a sham:在一次被谴责为虚假的审判中
be rigged:被操纵的
swept across the contry:席卷全国
demonstrators:示威者
brutally suppressed:被残酷镇压
sentence sb :判处sb
in absentia :缺席
high treason:叛国罪
conspiracy to seize power:阴谋夺权
intertwined:交织在一起
subjugate:征服
disintegration:崩解
fled:逃离
repression:镇压
consensus:共识
dictatorship:独裁
democratic:民主的
simultaneously:同时
hence:因此
cronies:亲信
democratically oriented:民主导向
regime:政权
deprived:被剥夺
incommunicado mode:隔离模式
in vain:徒劳的
decisive step:决定性一步
in jail:身陷囹圄
murder:谋杀