Now, comes two waves of "Show Trials," with the regime investing tremendous effort and prestige in trying 100 democracy protesters, accused of the sin (nowhere in the Iranian Penal Code) of trying to engineer "a velvet revolution".
To make its political demands crystal clear, al-Islah issued a second petition (the first kicked off the initial wave of arrests) on the eve of the trial.
Despite the tidal wave of outrage surrounding the trial — and complaints about the initial lack of national media coverage — Monday's outcome seems unlikely to shift the public's deeply ingrained positions on abortion.
Wilders waved to supporters as he walked into an Amsterdam court at the start of the trial.
(Hence the "waves" of the title).
Are the waves of the East River lapping?
Two waves of the NIDS were used in this paper – Wave 1 (2008) and Wave 2 (2010).
Indeed, despite the conventional wisdom that juries cannot understand complex corporate fraud cases, prosecutors have not lost a significant case since the recent wave of fraud trials began with the conviction of the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen in 2002, prosecutors and defense lawyers say.
PHILADELPHIA — When Paul Hamm was named to the United States Olympic gymnastics team Saturday, he stood at the center of the Wachovia Center, the site of the trials, and waved to the cheering crowd.
