Thailand frees Muslims detained in protest
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand - Hundreds of Muslim men were freed in southern Thailand on Saturday after being detained last week in the wake of protests that left 85 dead and outraged Muslims worldwide.
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Villagers on Thursday buried some of the 78 Muslims who died in military custody after a protest in troubled southern Thailand, while authorities insisted at a briefing for diplomats that the detainees were not intentionally mistreated. Later Thursday evening, a bomb exploded at an open-front bar in a southern Thai town on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 21, police said.
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Four Islamic teachers are arrested in southern Thailand, accused of being key figures behind recent violence.
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Thirteen Coptic Christians detained after clashes with police at a recent Cairo demonstration have been released.
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PATTANI, Thailand -- Facing harsh denunciation from Islamic leaders across Southeast Asia, Thailand's prime minister defended his security forces yesterday in the deaths of 78 young Muslims in army custody, maintaining troops used a ''soft approach&quot; in quelling a riot.
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International criticism of Thailand continued to escalate Thursday in the wake of the deaths of 78 Islamic protesters who suffocated while being transported in military trucks Monday for more than five hours to a barracks in the country&#39;s largely Muslim
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BANGKOK : Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the government would prosecute 300 Muslims detained at a riot this week that led to the deaths of 87 protesters, while another 900 would be released.
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Authorities on Saturday released 55 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood who had spent up to 20 years in jail, a human rights group said.
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Thailand's interim government lifts a ban on political party activities imposed after last September's coup.
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Two Muslim religious teachers have been  arrested on suspicion of involvement in a spate of violence in  Thailand's largely Muslim south in which more than 300 people  have been killed, the army said on Wednesday.
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The Thai government said today it has lifted a ban on YouTube after the Web site agreed not to allow videos that violate the countryâs laws or are deemed offensive there.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Almost 80 people died of  suffocation in southern Thailand while being taken to detention  at a military barracks after a violent demonstration, a justice  ministry official said Tuesday.
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Burma frees a protester who was injured during arrest, in an apparently conciliatory gesture, activists say.
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BANGKOK -- Thailand's new military rulers banned all political gatherings and activities at the local level yesterday, further cementing their powers and preempting any opposition following last week's bloodless coup.
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Thailand was back to work as normal on   Thursday, less than 36 hours after a military coup condemned by   international leaders but endorsed by the royal palace and   greeted by many Thais with relief.
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Iran has released all but three of 31 women detained during a peaceful protest in Tehran earlier this week, a lawyer said Thursday.
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PATTANI, Thailand, 27 October 2004 - At least 78 Muslims were suffocated or crushed to death after being arrested and packed into trucks by security forces following a riot in Muslim-dominated southern Thailand, officials said yesterday.