Mrs. Kumaratunga personally saw to a rare prosecution of soldiers.
It was a rare prosecution over attacks on faiths other than Islam.
The case brought against Mr. Laing was a rare prosecution of an official from the F.D.A., an agency that handles a large amount of market-moving information.
Last month, Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, brought criminal charges against the giant hedge fund, a rare prosecution of a corporate entity.
One day after sentencing him to five years in jail on charges of embezzlement, which Navalny's supporters called politically motivated, a judge in the provincial city of Kirov approved a rare prosecution request to release him from police custody during the appeal process.
Raids on employers who hire illegals are rare, and prosecutions even rarer.Maritza Pichon, head of the Latin American Association in Atlanta, reckons there are a million Hispanics in Georgia, twice the official estimate and more than a tenth of the total population.
Mr. Powell's case was one of the rare federal prosecutions for sedition — inciting resistance to the government — in the decades since World War I. Though the government eventually dropped all charges against him, his case dragged on for five years and became a cause célèbre.
Killing elephants and selling their parts is illegal in Indonesia, but arrests are relatively rare and prosecutions rarer.
By March 2005, his case had expanded to include a rare criminal prosecution by the United States Department of Justice.
The Border Patrol would not comment on the trial, a rare criminal prosecution of an agent for on-duty action.
