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...repaired to a bridgehead in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town northwest of Paris. French anti-terrorist police raided the place in 2003, securing millions of euros and taking Rajavi and some of her collaborators into custody. Several of Rajavi's followers set themselves on fire to protest her arrest, confirming official French concerns about the cultish nature of the group...
...question now is whether the U.S. can rebuild a force that is trusted enough to take back responsibility for the neighborhood. U.S. troops who work with Iraqi security forces sometimes investigate and even arrest Iraqi police. The Pentagon points out that Iraq's Interior Ministry has fired or suspended roughly 3,000 officers for offenses ranging from corruption to "breaking the law." But a senior official at the ministry who spoke to TIME on the condition of anonymity says the dismissals were little more than a charade. Police officers who quit for their own reasons accounted for about...
...arrest is just one example of the daunting obstacles these lawyers still face. Many say that as their visibility has increased, so have measures deployed to control them. Earlier this year the All China Lawyers Association, a national organization that attorneys are required to join, issued new guidelines stipulating that law firms should assign only "politically qualified" lawyers to handle cases involving joint litigation by 10 or more plaintiffs or issues related to safeguarding rights. Lawyers taking such cases were ordered to "accept supervision and guidance" or else be subject to punishment. According to a lawyer involved in the drafting...
...Wall fell and Cold Warriors like Pinochet became obsolete - if not denounced - in Washington, Pinochet wisely built a fortress of legal immunity around himself before stepping down. But it couldn't withstand the level of pent-up outrage at home and abroad. In the most bizarre case, British authorities arrested Pinochet in London in 1998 on an arrest warrant issued from Spain - where prosecutors wanted to try him for allegedly ordering the execution of leftist Spaniards living in Chile in the 1970s. He was eventually released back to Chile, but he spent his last years in a virtual prison...
...military leader, Commodore Frank Bainimarama; in the capital, Suva. The bloodless coup, prefaced by weeks of rumors and military movements, is widely attributed to a feud between Qarase and Bainimarama over amnesty for the leaders of a 2000 coup, which Bainimarama had helped quell. Bainimarama placed Qarase under house arrest, dissolved Parliament, imposed a state of emergency and installed Jona Senilagakali as interim Prime Minister. Senilagakali, a military doctor with no political experience, told reporters that democratic elections could be as far as two years...