Former Khmer Rouge leader detained
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Police detained the top surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge on Wednesday over his role in the notorious former Cambodian regime that caused the deaths of 1.7 million people in the late 1970s.
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Authorities have detained a   Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen who has used the Internet to call   for multi-party democracy in the one-party communist state, the   man's daughter said on Monday.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia's most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader was arrested and charged with crimes against humanity yesterday - three decades after the regime left 1.7 million people dead through starvation, overwork, and execution.
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A former Liberian army chief is arrested for "subversive activities" - the first such arrests since 2005 elections.
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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro was detained Saturday at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, according to a spokeswoman for the country's U.N. mission.
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Former Secretary General of the Organization of American States and former President of Costa Rica Miguel Angel Rodriguez, center in grey suit, is detained by Costa Rican Judicial Police upon his arrival at the Juan Santamaria International Airport
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A senior member of Zimbabwe's ruling party is arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle diamonds abroad.
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Khmer Rouge "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's top surviving henchman, was arrested on Wednesday at his house on the Thai border and taken to Phnom Penh to face the U.N. "Killing Fields" tribunal for the first time.
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A businessman wanted by the US for allegedly shipping thousands of tonnes of chemicals to Saddam Hussein has been detained by police in Holland and accused of complicity in the poison gas attacks that killed thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s.
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FORMER Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu had been placed under house arrest after being detained on suspicion of giving secret information to foreigners, a judicial source said today.
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A Philippine communist leader accused of commanding a rebel uprising from exile for more than 20 years was arrested by Dutch police Tuesday on suspicion of ordering the murder of two former allies in his home country, prosecutors said.
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A Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen was  detained in mid-August, a government spokesman said on Thursday  as rights groups complained he was arrested after using the  Internet to call for alternatives to one-party communist rule.
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A former Mexican policeman accused  in the 1975 kidnapping and disappearance of a young  revolutionary was arrested on Friday, a second detention in a  probe of state atrocities committed three decades ago.
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A Cambodian court sentenced ex-Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh to 18 months in jail in absentia on Tuesday for selling his former party's headquarters.
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A Canadian businessman providing dental aid to impoverished North Koreans has been detained for more than two months in the reclusive state, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Security forces in the ex-Soviet state  of Kyrgyzstan have detained a man who tried to sell nuclear  bomb-grade plutonium on the black market, a senior security  official said on Wednesday.
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An Egyptian state security judge ordered opposition party leader Ayman al-Nur to be detained for 45 days after he appeared for a second time on charges of falsifying official documents, legal sources said.