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Rival money managers feared that the case — as the authorities characterize it, a tale of corporate intrigue stretching from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — might be the first of many insider-trading prosecutions aimed at hedge funds.

This announcement comes on the heels of the expulsion of USAID from Russia in December, the forced closure of U.S. and European democracy organizations in the United Arab Emirates earlier in 2012, and the raids, office closures, and prosecutions aimed at five foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including Freedom House, in Egypt in December 2011.

But Congressional hearings on steroid use and prosecutions aimed only at star athletes do not have the ring of equality about them -- but rather a quest for fame from pursuing the famous.

An aggressive prosecution strategy, aimed at prevention as much as punishment, has sent away scores of people.

Officials say Mr. Ai, 54, earned his freedom in part by confessing a failure to pay a "huge amount" of taxes, but human rights advocates say his prosecution is aimed at reining in his attacks on the Communist Party.

Commissioners Frank Murray and Sir Ken Bloomfield said their work did not involve seeking prosecutions but was only aimed at addressing "the hurt and disappointment that the families of the Disappeared have endured for decades".

Blasphemy prosecutions were rare and usually aimed at prominent intellectuals.

Does it aim to diffuse the practice or to eradicate it?" The prosecution replied: "State policy is aimed at the eradication [of torture], of course!".

Although the criminal complaint does not appear to be aimed at a prosecution, Mr. Vincenzi said that if the I.R.S. agents violated Costa Rican law, then their investigation was illegal and his client should not be extradited.

Yemeni protesters have vowed to maintain pressure on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to follow through on a promise to step down if he and his family are granted immunity from prosecution under a Gulf initiative aimed at ending violent unrest over his 32-year rule.

But the majority of the warnings are aimed at the prosecution.