11.   The latter is constantly harassed, its campaign rallies banned, its grass-roots activists arrested and beaten.

12.   Police at Maldon in southeastern England arrested one activist and charged him with criminal damage after hunters there were pelted with eggs.

13.   Palestinian police have arrested an activist of the Islamic militant group Hamas who is also a leading figure in the newly established Islamic political party.

14.   Palestinians said Israeli forces entered two West Bank villages and arrested activists from Hamas and the radical Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

15.   Police arrested pro-democracy activists and blocked roads leading toward a rally scheduled for Tuesday to demand an end to the military rule.

16.   Police attempted also to arrest Hamas activist Deya Darwazeh, but he fled his home in Nablus.

17.   A leading human rights activist was arrested Monday, five days before she was to leave for Geneva to attend a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

18.   A leading opposition activist was arrested Tuesday shortly before he was to address a university rally, Lagos radio reported.

19.   A government official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Friday that several dozen opposition activists had been arrested in connection with the protests since Thursday.

20.   A government official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Friday that several dozen opposition activists had been arrested.