China Briefly Detains 3 in Intellectuals Crackdown
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Chinese authorities briefly detained at  least three liberal intellectuals, sources close to the three  said on Tuesday, as part of an intensified crackdown on  government critics.
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Several online journalists have been arrested, raising fears of a government crackdown on internet dissidents.
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Chinese police have detained a man who they say murdered eight teenagers and injured four others in a school dormitory overnight, state press said.
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Villages were cordoned off and thousands of police kept watch along roads in central China on Tuesday following riots between majority Han Chinese and a Muslim minority that killed seven people and injured 42.
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Police detained opposition activists Tuesday in a provincial city at a protest that Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said was thwarted by Russian authorities intent on silencing dissent
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China has detained eight Roman Catholic  priests in a crackdown on those loyal to the Pope and arrested  a "Living Buddha" for arousing superstition at the re-opening  of a temple, U.S. groups said on Wednesday.
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HAVANA -- At least three dissidents arrested in a broad crackdown by the Cuban government last year were released Monday, according to friends, relatives and human rights activists.
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A Chinese activist whose writings frequently criticized the ruling Communist Party was released Tuesday after being detained by police, in what appears to be the latest in the government's ongoing efforts to tighten control over public dissent.
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The detentions were the latest in a string of arrests and official harassment of journalists, writers and scholars.
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China's arrest of a prominent rights campaigner is part of an increasing crackdown on critics that breaks promises it made to land the Olympics, said activists who called for world pressure on Beijing.
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Palestinian security forces on Saturday briefly detained three top members of a faction that claimed an attack that wounded two Israelis, officials said, marking the first such move since Mahmoud Abbas was elected leader last month.
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Chinese researcher Zhao Yan, detained last month for allegedly leaking state secrets to the New York Times, has been formally arrested, his lawyer says.
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Chinese authorities detained a prominent, U.S.-based Buddhist leader in connection with his plans to reopen an ancient temple complex in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia last week and have forced dozens of his American followers to leave the region, local officials said Wednesday.
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China has detained eight Roman Catholic priests in northern Hebei province, continuing a crackdown on those loyal to the Pope, a U.S.-based religious right group said on Wednesday.
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Three Burmese activists are detained as the opposition NLD marks its 18th anniversary, colleagues say.
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Chinese leaders imposed a ban on news reports about the death of Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the 1989 crackdown on protesters.
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The Bangladeshi authorities detain four senior academics as a curfew is relaxed after student riots.