Word: jails
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...Belarusian journalist and human-rights activist, told Time by telephone. "The people were angry with the rigged election, mass arrests and inhuman treatment of the detainees." Khalip says that Alexander Kozulin, a key opposition leader and a presidential candidate in the election, led a protest march to the jail in Okrestina Street. Then things turned violent. "My husband walked up to the commanding officer smiling and with flowers in hand," Irina Kozulin told TIME in a call from Minsk. "But before he started talking, the officer ordered an attack. They knocked my husband off his feet, started beating...
...cruelly sarcastic doctor on House; and the castaways of Lost, who include a heroin addict, a torturer and several killers. (Fox's Prison Break is also set among criminals, although it's about a wrongfully imprisoned man and the brother who is trying to spring him from jail.) "Mainstream audiences are now getting comfortable with the fact that there are different kinds of lead characters," says Reilly...
...ground in a circle, holding hands. They did not resist. First, the cops removed all the media from the vicinity of the square, then they started carrying the protesters to prison wagons bodily. My two nephews were among those arrested in the square. They are still in jail...
...effect that those gathered in the square would be butchered. Earlier General Sukharenko, head of the Belarus KGB (which still goes by that notorious title), explained publicly that all those taking part in the street protest would be considered terrorists and get up to 20 years of jail under new anti-terrorist legislation. He claimed that his secret police had uncovered plots to overthrow the legitimate government with the help of Ukrainian, Georgian and other hit men, all trained in secret camps, funded by the West, and invoked opposition plans to blow up four school buildings on the election...
...many in the Solomons, life has improved dramatically since mid-2003, when an Australian-led rescue effort - the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) - arrived to calm long-running ethnic tensions and prevent the country from falling into anarchy. Dozens of violent militants are in jail or on trial, thousands of weapons have been confiscated, and corruption investigations are cranking up. Australia will spend $A247 million this year on its participation in RAMSI; other South Pacific nations are also giving security help. The shattered economy is gaining momentum, and an election is scheduled for April...