The Uzbeks fled to Kyrgyzstan after the violent suppression of a public uprising in Andijon in May 2005 and have since been the focus of legal proceedings and diplomatic attention.
While the immediate focus of the proceedings is the guilt or innocence of the four men, all those involved are keenly aware that the events in the courtroom here are part of a wider drama involving the standing and reputation of the United States for evenhanded justice.
The focus of criminal proceedings until now has been a former Citigroup and UBS trader, Tom Hayes, who is charged with conspiracy to fix Libor with employees at eight other financial firms including Royal Bank of Scotland, JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Icap, Tullett Prebon, Rabobank RP Martin and HSBC.
It wasn't until January of this year that the IEC finally enacted rules that put the focus of any proceedings under an ethics complaint on its own internal investigation, not on evidence gathered by private-party complainants.
Now the trial of Clementi's roommate, Dharun Ravi, is finishing its jury selection phase and moving toward the hearing of evidence and eventual judgment -- and questions about what constitutes a hate crime will be one focus of the proceedings.
The episode might be titled Morgane, after one of the latest batch of returnees, but it's another M who is the real focus of this week's proceedings: Milan Sergege and Toni's monstrous father, who leaves a trail of hurt in both the past and the present.
The focus of the legal proceedings was Alice's patent claims.
In today's India, Dalits often still struggle to be treated fairly, but rape victims of all castes and classes are liable to find their own character made the focus of the court proceedings.
45 However, for team-based sport athletes (the focus of these conference proceedings), logistically there are perhaps few options for a direct method for pretesting actual performance decline at altitude.
