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...opposition amendments to a bill to overhaul the media industry. The bill, which critics say will benefit Berlusconi's business empire, must now return to the upper house, delaying its final approval. Berlusconi had characterized the secret ballot as a vote of confidence in his leadership. Secret Al-Qaeda Arrest AZERBAIJAN The last of the al-Qaeda operatives from Georgia's Pankisi Valley still being sought by the U.S. was arrested in the Azeri capital of Baku in a secret operation in September, security officials in the Caucasus told TIME. Abu-Ayat was an alleged explosives specialist who claimed...
...HUPD officer assisted Cambridge Police Department officers with an arrest of a person exposing himself in public...
...from a hospital stay and four months detention in an undisclosed location by Burma's military government; in Rangoon. Following a three-hour operation for a gynecological condition, the democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize winner returned to her lakeside home, where she reportedly will be kept under house arrest. After arriving there, she released her first public statement since her entourage was attacked by a pro-government mob in May: "I thank you for your warm concern and am confident that you have equal concern for my supporters." Up to 70 party members were killed in the attack...
...Before Jing could be executed, however, fortune handed him a reprieve. Lanzhou police arrested a dealer who admitted that he had helped officers set Jing up for a drug rap. Jing won a second trial?and the real story came out. The arresting officers had planted the heroin. They had coerced Jing's confession by shocking him with electric batons and hanging him by his handcuffed wrists until "the blood poured down my arms," Jing testified during his trial. By the time of his release last January, the cab driver had spent more than a year on death...
...nothing is China called a police state. Unhindered by constitutional or judicial restraints, mainland cops have long operated with virtual impunity, earning a reputation with citizens as unprincipled thugs more concerned about hitting arrest quotas and fleecing the masses than protecting and serving. But after several highly publicized incidents of malfeasance and incompetence, China's cops are undergoing a process of unexpected introspection?and even reform. Over the past several months, the Ministry of Public Security, the national police force, has banned the use of torture during the interrogation of suspects, abolished "custody-and-repatriation" rules that enabled police...