Word: detainer
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Antonio Di Pietro, a prosecutor who became a national hero in Italy for his campaign against bribe-taking politicians, asked to be reassigned in a protest against a decree issued by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government. The decree would eliminate the prosecutors' ability to detain corruption suspects, a powerful tool used against thousands of prominent citizens...
Events like these prompted Russian President Boris Yeltsin two weeks ago to announce a crackdown on what he described as the "criminal filth" plaguing Russia, and especially Moscow. His decree, giving the police broad new powers to conduct searches and detain suspects, drew a sharp outcry from civil libertarians and last week was overwhelmingly condemned by the Russian parliament. Yet it was a symbol of the desperation to which Moscow, the once proud seat of the Russian and Soviet empires, has been reduced...
...police harass, detain and/or arrest Black students, particularly Black males, not only on this campus, but everywhere in this country, is an old method used to make Blacks feel out of place where they feel comfortable and to feel ashamed of their race. Police harassing Black students for rapping in public is consistent with the way the white media criticizes rap music, a unique contribution of Black youth to popular culture. It's a degradation method. History has proven those methods to be effective in some cases. So, I guess white racists should be congratulated for their persistence and unyielding...
Black students, in fact, say it is commonplace for officers of the Harvard Police Department to detain them as they make their way around campus...
...visibility, enhanced by his ties to some suspects in the World Trade Center bombing and the foiled conspiracy to bomb a handful of other New York City sites, Mubarak was also impatient with the presumption of innocence accorded the sheik by U.S. law. Once the Justice Department decided to detain the blind diabetic cleric, however, Mubarak approved the executions, apparently calculating that a Sheik Abdel Rahman in jail was far less likely to make trouble for him than one on the loose...