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Critics of tort litigation have long decried the “tort tax,” the higher prices that firms pass on to their consumers when held liable for harm.

Defenders decried "violations of judicial procedure" after their clients were not brought before the judge, and demanded their release, lawyer Faouzi Jaballah said.

He was sentenced for breaching the country's foreign agents law, in a case decried by France as "arbitrary".

One commenter decried the festival as part of Saudi Arabia’s efforts to spend “billions of dollars promoting cultural and sporting events in an effort to distract from its endless human rights abuses.”

Even when elected leaders decry inequity, they typically do more to mystify than clarify what has caused it.