Word: arresters
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...SENTENCED. Ching Cheong, 56, Hong Kong-based reporter for Singapore's Straits Times newspaper, to five years in jail on charges of espionage; by Beijing's No. 2 Intermediate Court; in Beijing. After his arrest in April 2005, state media reported that Ching confessed to selling military secrets to Taiwan and setting up a spy network, but rights groups called the charges baseless, and Ching's wife said he was a victim of entrapment. His sentencing was seen as a setback for journalism in China. "This is our darkest day," Hong Kong Journalists Association chairwoman Serenade Woo said last Thursday...
Most great writers have a knack for bringing their characters to life. But only Ngugi wa Thiong'o could write a character so convincing he almost gets arrested. In 1986, while the author's native Kenya was suffocating under President Daniel arap Moi's oppressive rule, Ngugi wrote Matigari, a novel whose eponymous hero travels the country protesting against the regime. Because [an error occurred while processing this directive] Matigari posed questions Kenyans were afraid to ask, they talked about him as if he were real, the way soap-opera fans and comic-book lovers do. "The regime thought there...
...Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. Although wanted for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution charges of forcing underage marriages, he conducted even more underage unions, exiled men from their homes and families who were considered "unworthy," and ordered followers not to pay their taxes. Some fear that his arrest could now create a power vacuum within his sect and attract other Jeffs-minded leaders interested in doing it their own way. There is also the possibility of an exiled member returning to establish new leadership...
...According to a Sadr representative in Diwaniya, the militia commander whose arrest sparked the violence will be tried in court and not held indefinitely as a detainee. Now that the military has backed off, the Iraqi legal system may do the same. Sadr himself was targeted for arrest in 2004 on the charge of ordering the assassination of a rival. The charge was ultimately shelved when he struck a deal and said he would join the political process...
...probable cause to arrest him," Lacy said. "I'm not embarrassed. You do your best with what you have, and what you have changes hour to hour." Both because Karr could have fled authorities and because he was in a position to harm young girls as a teacher in Thailand, Lacy said, she felt an obligation to bring him in for questioning. And he seemed a credible confessor with inside knowledge about JonBenet. He knew, for instance, about the bracelet on JonBenet's arm, although it turned out that it had been mentioned in the autopsy report. And he wrote...