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...Standing Committee will begin to devise a law to strengthen police powers and penalties for disturbing public order. According to a draft of the proposed changes seen by TIME, the new law would allow police to increase fines, seize property, close down businesses, and hold under house arrest anyone who "violates public-security management." Says Liu Junning, a political scientist at the Chinese Cultural Research Institute in Beijing: "If the ?harmonious society' is the carrot, then these laws are the stick...
...high up in the Pakistani government and military establishment Khan's allies are. Khan was too hot to handle, so even making him the fall guy for selling Pakistan's nuclear secrets was out of the question. Instead, President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Khan and put him under house arrest in his sumptuous villa. This for an act of treason so blatant and outrageous that it has few parallels in any nation, authoritarian or not. Khan's pardon was part of a cover-up. Rama Prem Freiburg, Germany Khan has confessed to leaking Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya...
...month term at Alderson Federal Prison Camp, W.Va., she signed on to host two new TV shows, reportedly lost weight and watched her company's stock soar (increasing her wealth some $500 million). So it wasn't totally hard time. Stewart was released on Friday but remains under house arrest at her 153-acre New York estate. Gives a whole new meaning to the term big house...
Maybury-Lewis was placed under arrest by HUPD that night and transported to Cambridge Police Department headquarters on Western Avenue for holding. He was released on his own recognizance the next morning for $40 bail. According to court reports, he was released on the condition that he not commit another crime during his release, that he not abuse the alleged victim, and that he abide by all active restraining orders...
...defendant was arraigned in court on Feb. 22, the morning after the arrest, and is due back in court on April 20 for a pretrial conference...