But even as the commissioners explained their positions, some audience members held signs on their laps for the cameras, in vigils of mute protest.
People hold up posters reading 'I am Charlie' in French as they take part in a vigil of people, including many who were French, to show solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris offices of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in Trafalgar Square, London, Wednesday, Jan . 7 , 2015
In the Vigil of the Princes, Prince Albert and his three brothers took a shift standing guard over their father's body as it lay in state, in a closed casket, in Westminster Hall.
More than 1,000 people joined in a prayer vigil of reconciliation.
This hunger for freedom has been expressed not only by soccer fans applauding America, but in candlelight vigils of 20,000 young Iranians unafraid of photographs by clerical police.
Love Makes a Way was founded in 2014 with a sit-in prayer vigil at the office of the then immigration minister, Scott Morrison.
More than 10,000 people took part in a vigil in honour of Stephen Sutton, the teenage cancer campaigner whose achievements were remembered on Friday at a memorial service before he was laid to rest at a private funeral.
On 16 March, Alawites participated in the vigil for families of prisoners of conscience, one of the trigger events of the revolution – and some of them were imprisoned for it.
One community activist thought of organizing a sort of mothers' vigil in front of 61 Cedar to monitor the comings and goings, until she heard that Ross kept some particularly nasty dogs.
In the largest vigil outside of France so far, more than a thousand French citizens and others gathered in Trafalgar Square in London – sometimes dubbed Frances's "sixth largest city" on account of the number of expats living there.
