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The trial was seen as test of Serbia's ability to try war crimes when it began last year, and the court found Mr. Svejtan guilty.

From a policy standpoint, the trial was seen as a test of President Obama's intention of trying military detainees in civilian court "whenever feasible".

The trial was seen as a test case for Spain's attempts to come to terms with the widespread corruption that has seen many parts of the country paved in concrete.

Indeed, the Blanton trial was seen globally as an American expiation drama, the most stirring in a series of last-chance prosecutions of old civil rights crimes around the South.

Yet the absolute theatrical freedom which the Old Bailey trial was seen to have achieved at the time is now increasingly in question following the recent attempts by morality campaigners (driven, like Mary Whitehouse, by Christianity) to ban the musical Jerry Springer - The Opera and the successful interruption by Sikh protesters of the run of Behzti at the Birmingham Rep.

The trial was seen as a sign of the determination of the new government of President Abdurrahman Wahid to end a spate of human rights abuses by the Indonesian Army, which has been waging a war against rebels in Aceh for the past 25 years.

Yukos's troubles and Mr. Khodorkovsky's trial are seen by many as an effort by the Kremlin to punish Mr. Khodorkovsky's political ambitions.

He thinks—and I do think he's right on this that part of the problem is fear of failure, that a negative clinical trial is seen as a catastrophe.

But internationally the trial is seen as an affront to free speech – a point American officials said US secretary of state, John Kerry, would stress privately on a fleeting visit to Cairo on Sunday.

Now the trial is seen as a way not only to repay a moral debt to Rwanda's victims, but also to revive credibility in Belgium after scandals over corruption and an inept judicial system.

The charges against him are serious enough to carry the death penalty, though Qatar is unlikely to want the publicity that would bring.His arrest and impending trial are seen as a final piece of the royal Qatari jigsaw.