Belarus police detain opposition leader
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Police briefly detained Belarusian opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich on Monday for the third time in two weeks, accusing him of drug trafficking, his spokesman said.
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Police detain Zimbabwe opposition leader and cancel permission for protest march
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Plainclothes agents broke up a Valentine's Day march by opposition activists expressing pro-European views, detaining about 10 people in the capital of the tightly controlled ex-Soviet republic of Belarus.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - With President Pervez Musharraf facing an election in just two weeks, police last night arrested key opposition leaders who had vowed to try to block the general's plans for winning a new term.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was briefly detained at Harare International Airport on his return from a European tour, an official with his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said.
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Opposition leaders accused the government of arresting exit-poll takers and turning away election observers during a referendum yesterday on whether to allow authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to run for a third term.
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Police briefly detained Belarusian opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich on Monday for the third time in two weeks, accusing him of drug trafficking, his spokesman said.Comment
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Police clash with opposition activists, who protest against the nationwide referendum preliminary results in a square near the presidential administration, in Minsk, Belarus, Oct 18, 2004.
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Belarus' authoritarian president dismissed his chief of staff Monday and replaced him with a longtime associate who was implicated by a European rights group in disappearances of opposition figures five years ...
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Belarus' authoritarian president accused opposition leaders Friday of trying to foster chaos by using terror, as demonstrators protested for a fifth straight night in the capital against the referendum extending his term in office.
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarussian President Alexander  Lukashenko, viewed in the West as Europe's last hard-line  leader, got the go-ahead on Monday to run for another term  while the country's beleaguered opposition was shut out of  parliament.
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Pakistani authorities have detained hundreds of opposition party activists in advance of a day of protests against the government this week, opposition party officials said on Tuesday.
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An American employee of philanthropist George Soros' Open Society Institute has been arrested in Belarus by agents of the country's KGB security police, the New York-based Foundation said Tuesday.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 16 -- Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers said.
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The leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change Morgan Tsvangirai was briefly detained by police on Wednesday ahead of a planned anti-government march, his lawyer said.
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Russian prosecutors detain a finance ministry official on suspicion of taking a bribe from two businessmen.
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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, Russian media reported.