Armed with a suitcase bursting with files assembled during months in custody, he has stalked the courtroom, thrusting papers at the officers serving as judges, demanding silence from prosecution lawyers and refusing demands that he sit down until the presiding officer, Col. Vinod Malik, raises his hand above a bell that summons armed guards.
I do not really understand Mr. Obama's silence and prosecutions.
Political opposition parties were coöpted, politicians were bought off or silenced by prosecution, outspoken newspaper columnists were sued for libel, bloggers were picked up by the security services, roughed up a bit, let go, detained again.
Nevertheless, the status of homosexuals has improved in Russia after decades of enforced silence and criminal prosecution.
The three laws "specifically put writers at risk", say the authors, and they "cannot stand quietly by as we watch our fellow writers and journalists pressed into silence or risking prosecution and often drastic punishment for the mere act of communicating their thoughts".
The judge said that the claim of a vendetta was "arrant nonsense", and that, "the idea that this organization is a sufficient threat to anything that would warrant the government bringing a prosecution to silence them just defies human experience".
It should not be silenced with threats of prosecution.
The debate "should not be silenced with threats of criminal prosecution by those who believe that their position is the only correct one and that all dissenting voices must therefore be intimidated and coerced into silence".
By so doing, they avert prosecution for corruption and silence the beginnings of a free press.
Anni's family, who have previously given vocal backing to Dewani's prosecution, sat in stunned silence.
