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...burning tires, welded shut the doors and windows of the apartments, and invited in swarms of teenage zealots armed with rocks, eggs and light bulbs, which they began hurling down when police advanced on the building at 6 a.m. The squatters were evicted, but during the ensuing clash, 11 policemen were wounded along with four activists...
...foreigners, such as an ambassador posted in Washington, to seek legal redress for injury in the U.S. before it triggered an international incident. The statute lay virtually dormant for generations until Paraguayan Dolly Filartiga, whose 17-year-old brother Joelito was tortured to death by local policemen, found out that the police chief at the time, Américo Norberto Peña Irala, was living in the U.S. two years later. She and her father sued, and in 1980 a federal court in New York awarded her $10.4 million. Pena Irala, for his part, was subsequently deported...
...overran the building, daubing its pale walls with red paint. Police fired tear gas and arrested dozens of protesters. The suicide bomb went off in a restaurant behind the mosque just as police had finally taken control of the riot. The explosion killed at least 13 people, including eight policemen who had gathered as part of the security detail around the mosque. Witnesses say parts of shredded police uniforms scattered the street amid pools of blood and body parts...
...humid evening two months ago, a dozen police cars rolled up to the simple Riyadh residence of Salman al-Huraisi, a 28-year-old hotel security guard. The policemen stormed into the house, breaking down doors, tearing through personal belongings and crying, "God is great!" Then they arrested al-Huraisi, along with 10 other family members. His alleged crime: consuming and selling beer...
...Chen was nabbed immediately after talking with another TIME reporter, but this didn't seem to bother his wife, though she did tell us we might run into trouble from the three carloads of policemen she had seen hanging around the apartment complex. Yuan's hosts, activist Hu Jia and his wife Zeng Jingyan (named earlier this year as one of TIME's 100 most influential people for her efforts via the Internet to secure his freedom after he was arrested last year), also warned us that some diplomats who had visited earlier were prevented from entering. We were pretty...