1.   Now his family is hoping an appeal to the local state governor will get him out.

2.   Arevalo told human rights advocates at the time that the soldiers had gone to the area at the request of the local governor.

3.   Aid workers say the rules vary from camp to camp, depending on the priorities of the local governor and military commanders.

4.   Alerted to the subterfuge, Haji Abdul Qadir, the local governor and Pashtun elder, gave his people a guarantee.

5.   But in eight northern states which are predominantly Muslim, Shariah, or fundamentalist Islamic law, has been declared the legal code by local governors.

6.   Egyptian law lets the president control the parliament, appoint local governors, and keep the country under sweeping emergency powers allowing detention without trials.

7.   He said the local governor promised to keep out squatters.

8.   Local governors control another chunk.

9.   Once he came to the aid of three Roman soldiers who had been unfairly tried, and forced the local Roman governor to let them go.

10.   Payind said the new Afghan constitution should grant wide powers to local governors and also assure that the governors are honestly chosen in free elections.