With a laundry list of his potential enemies, authorities refrained from naming any suspects.
The rest fell into a broad category known simply as "the men," acquiescing to the criminal "authorities," refraining from cooperation with the guards and avoiding the abuse of the degraded.
Take William Hague, who asked the Egyptian authorities to refrain from violence because "now is the time for dialogue, not confrontation".
He said: "We're closely following developments and we strongly urge the Israeli authorities to refrain from carrying out any demolitions in the village".
The ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has requested the Libyan authorities to refrain from carrying out any sentence and instead surrender him to The Hague.
MOSCOW — After weeks of rising tensions, a few thousand people gathered here on Sunday to protest ethnic violence and to call on the authorities to refrain from crackdowns that would curtail Moscow's diversity.
It strongly urged Libyan authorities "to refrain from reprisals", to take measures to prevent others from carrying out reprisals, and to protect the population, "including foreign nationals and African migrants".
A few hours later, his boss came out with the administration's strongest posture to date on behalf of the protesters, trying to get ahead of any potential violent crackdown by the Mubarak government by calling on Egyptian authorities to "refrain from calling for any violence against peaceful protesters".
But America and the EU could still try to ensure an orderly count, and rather as they did in Ukraine last year pressure the authorities to refrain from violence in the event of demonstrations.The real test is for Mr Aliev, who is as much of a Caucasian enigma as his country.
In first six month of this year, Iran is known to have executed between 182 to 201 people, which is a considerable drop compared with last year but activists were not sure if it amounted to an indication in a change in policy as the country went through parliamentary elections, a period when the authorities normally refrain from executing convicts.
