It is an archetypal scene, rehearsed countless times on the cracked surfaces of ancient altar panels and on the stretched-linen canvases of art history: a sacrificial figure, humiliatingly stripped of his clothes by brutish authorities, stands before a court of justice. But in this instance, the image does not date back to medieval or Renaissance Christian iconography and it is not to be found on the walls of a Western museum, church, or cathedral.