UN expert in Bangladesh custody
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A UN human rights expert charged with corruption in Bangladesh is remanded in custody.
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A Swiss forensic expert hired by an Arab rights group to carry out an autopsy on a Yemeni detainee found hanged in his cell at the Guantanamo Bay military prison said Friday that suicide was possible.
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The Palestinian-born doctor held with five Bulgarian nurses in a Libyan prison for over eight years has filed a complaint against Libya with the UN Commission on Human Rights, his lawyer said Thursday.
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The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has renewed an appeal to Burma to free detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and all other political prisoners.
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KARACHI, Pakistan : Dec 12 (SADA) - The head of a militant group that kidnapped three UN workers in Afghanistan recently was arrested in Karachi by the Pakistani security forces.
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Bosnian Serb Ljubisa Beara, indicted  for alleged crimes against humanity in Srebrenica, is in  custody at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, the court  said Sunday.
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A senior Bangladeshi politician is detained in prison for a further 30 days following his arrest last month.
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The United Nations demanded Belarus free an American arrested while working on a United Nations project in the ex-Soviet republic, but the country's spy service on Thursday insisted the man was not protected by ...
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The chief of Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission says more arrests can be expected in coming months.
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The Bangladesh government confirmed Saturday the identity of one of its nationals taken hostage by militants in Iraq, officials said.
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Bangladesh security forces waging a corruption crackdown late Wednesday arrested the son of outgoing prime minister Khaleda Zia, a media report said.
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Indonesian police confirmed today that Abu Dujana, a major southeast Asia terrorist leader, had been arrested.
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Pakistani security forces have  arrested the head of an Afghan militant group responsible for  kidnapping three U.N. workers in neighboring Afghanistan, the  information minister said on Saturday.
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Another former minister is detained in Bangladesh as the government says it is stepping up an anti-corruption drive.
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A former Taliban front-line military commander has been arrested in connection with the abduction of three UN workers in Afghanistan in October, a senior Pakistan official said Saturday.
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Police in emergency-ruled Bangladesh on Monday arrested former prime minister Khaleda Zia, the latest high-profile figure to be hauled in as part of a massive anti-corruption campaign.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands A former senior Bosnian Serb commander accused of genocide is now in the custody of the UN war crimes tribunal.