Burma protest leader is arrested
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The dissident leader of fuel price protests in Burma a week ago has been arrested, following a police operation.
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Myanmar&#39;s Prime Minister Khin Nyunt was removed from office Tuesday and placed under house arrest by the country&#39;s military junta, the BBC reported.
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Buddhist monks were allowed to march past police barricades to the home of detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday as street protests intensified against the ruling military junta.
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Myanmar's junta has stepped up surveillance of the Internet, arresting one blogger who wrote about the stifling of free expression in the military-ruled nation, a media advocacy group said.
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Police detain Zimbabwe opposition leader and cancel permission for protest march
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Nigerian security forces are reported to have detained the country&#39;s top union leader two days before a scheduled nationwide strike to protest fuel price increases.
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Key opposition figures are arrested in Pakistan, ahead of protests against President Musharraf's re-election.
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Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been told by police she is being held under house arrest under a law which allows for such detention for up to a year, an opposition spokesman said Monday.
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A top Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt is arrested along with scores of the group's supporters.
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Myanmar&#39;s military junta tightened the  net on leaders of a rare string of protests on Thursday,  raiding homes of known activists and their friends and  distributing their photographs in a manhunt around Yangon.
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Burma&#39;s opposition party says its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has had her house arrest extended for another 12 months until September next year.
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Bangkok - Myanmar&#39;s prime minister has been ousted and put under house arrest after a lengthy power struggle that has tightened the grip of hardliners in the military government, Thai officials and diplomats said on Tuesday.
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Khin Nyunt has been ousted as prime minister of military-ruled Myanmar and is under house arrest, a Thai government spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi reportedly protests against a reduction in her security.
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About 50 pro-democracy activists were briefly arrested Monday outside Yangon, as the Myanmar junta clamped down on dissent following a series of protests last week against a sharp hike in fuel prices.
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Indonesian police say they have arrested the alleged leader of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.
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Myanmar's junta held nearly 1,200  political prisoners before a crackdown on Buddhist monk-led  street protests last month, according to a report by the U.N.'s  independent expert on human rights in Myanmar.