 Rai was the first person to be convicted of organizing an unauthorized demonstration in the vicinity of Parliament.Evans and Rai were also, through their May 2007 convictions, the first people to be convicted in the same trial of organizing and participating in unauthorized demonstrations in the vicinity of Parliament - at different parts of the same two-day event.Their appeal against their SOCPA convictions is currently before the European Court of Human Rights (as of February 2009).