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.Comment
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Hamas security forces detain a spokesman of the group which claims to be holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
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Police swept the Pakistani capital on Saturday to arrest the leaders of opposition parties vowing to obstruct President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid, officials said.
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An American citizen specializing in the Internet was arrested by the Belarus KGB for allegedly mishandling funds, Belarus authorities reported on Monday.
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Police in ex-Soviet Belarus dispersed a  protest on Monday by about 2,000 entrepreneurs denouncing  President Alexander Lukashenko's decree that places  restrictions on hiring staff.
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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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Police have arrested the suspected political leader of the Basque guerrilla group ETA, detained 20 other people and seized weapons in a swoop on the outlawed group in France and Spain, officials say.
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President Alexander Lukashenko vowed Tuesday to retain tight control over the KGB in Belarus, saying the security agency should do more to monitor political dissent. Human rights activists said the move signaled a further crackdown of opposition groups in the former Soviet republic.
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The head of the election campaign team for Zimbabwe's main opposition party is arrested by police.
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Authorities in Uzbekistan have arrested a prominent human rights advocate, a fellow activist said Wednesday, amid an ongoing crackdown on dissidents and government critics in the tightly controlled former Soviet state.
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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 ago.
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BORDEAUX, France  - Police arrested the suspected  political leader of the Basque guerrilla group ETA, detained 20  others, and seized explosives, grenades and other weapons in a  series of raids on Sunday, officials said.
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Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is briefly held by police, hours before a banned march in Harare.
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Zimbabwe riot police arrested more than  200 opposition activists and officials on Saturday during a  meeting they were holding at their party headquarters, an  opposition spokesman said.
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BORDEAUX, France : Anti-terrorist police arrested the political leader of Spain&#39;s armed Basque separatist group ETA in raids in France and Spain that resulted in arms caches and other suspected members being seized, officials said.
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Four top Belarus officials have been banned from entering the European Union and the US, in protest at a crackdown on dissidents.
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A Belarussian parliamentary official has backed the Minsk police force's actions to stop an unauthorized opposition rally in Minsk, but said policemen could have acted "less rigorously." "The country must ...