cause célèbre in English
noun
1
a controversial issue that attracts a great deal of public attention.
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1. But, this August, the crisis was purely man-made – indeed, made by one man. The conviction of three members of the agitprop punk-rock group Pussy Riot for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” has turned the three young women into an international cause célèbre.