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...dozen law enforcement and conflict resolution experts have been appointed to the Cambridge Review Committee tasked with analyzing the controversial July arrest of black Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Cambridge officials announced last Thursday. The group’s members hail from across the country and include the dean of the Rutgers School of Law, the Philadelphia Police Commissioner, a United States District Court judge, a former FBI assistant director, and a U.S. State Department senior advisor who worked on Arab-Israeli negotiations. “This is a historic opportunity...
...weeks, hard-line elements in Iran's government have been calling for the arrest of the country's opposition leaders, especially defeated presidential candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. Now it appears that the government has raised the ante. On Sept. 8, Iranian authorities raided offices connected to the two men and arrested top opposition aides...
...fossil fuels" is written on the back of the grocery receipt for said eggs. Such was the mistake of the four adults who egged a Toyota dealership near Moscow, Idaho, in May 2009. Police used the receipt to obtain store surveillance footage, which led to the four wannabes' arrest on vandalism charges...
...atrocity. As he loudly tried to confront General Motors CEO Roger Smith in Roger & Me in 1989, and pleaded through a bull horn to get officials at Guantanamo to give medical treatment to surviving victims of 9/11, so in Capitalism he attempts to make a citizen's arrest of AIG executives, and puts tape around the New York Stock Exchange building, declaring it a crime scene. (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...clear what work Trang was arrested for. Like many young Vietnamese, Trang also had a blog. Her last posting was in May, where she discussed the controversial bauxite mining plan that was being debated by the National Assembly. Her single entry that month contained fairly innocuous remarks, mentioning only that the government had hastily prepared their report on the bauxite project. Nguyen Anh Tuan, the editor of VietnamNet has said that all he knew was that his reporter was arrested for violating national security, insisting that these alleged crimes were not related to her VietnamNet stories. Tuan has heard nothing...