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That drive would spell his doom. Along with his son Sandro, 32, whom he'd been grooming for succession, Lo Piccolo was arrested on Nov. 5 after more than two decades as a fugitive. Convicted in absentia on multiple murder charges, Lo Piccolo was taken to an undisclosed prison on the Italian mainland, as was his son, also a convicted murderer. Their capture follows the April 2006 arrest of Bernardo Provenzano, the all-powerful Mafia boss, who evaded authorities for 43 years and is now also serving a life sentence for murder...
Musharraf had dismissed a number of Supreme Court justices; suspended the constitution and rights to speech, press, and assembly; and granted extensive powers to the military. Some lawyers, judges, activists, and students have been preemptively kept under house arrest or detained by the police for protesting...
...original trial, the jury was only allowed to hear details on Colono’s arrest and conviction for possession of a controlled substance...
Iqbal Haider, Secretary General of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, speaking from under house arrest, questioned Musharraf's motives. "If he wants to stamp out terrorism in Pakistan, why is he arresting civil society leaders and lawyers instead of militants and religious fanatics? Why didn't he arrest Fazlullah when he first started preaching jihad? Today he has arrested hundreds of lawyers, but not a single militant, Taliban, al-Qaeda or religious fanatic. It doesn't make any sense. If you want to take the country away from the extremists, you don't do it by arresting the moderates...
Some observers in the U.S. and Pakistan are still holding out the possibility that Musharraf's main reason for imposing martial law was to rid himself of his bête noir, the "literalist" Supreme Court led by chief justice Iftikar Chaudhry, who is now under house arrest. That tribunal not only posed a danger to the validity of Musharraf's election as president in early October but also to the U.S. deal forged with opposition leader Benazir Bhutto that allowed her to return to Pakistan from exile as a symbol of resurgent democracy. With the persnickety high court "cleansed...