11.   Police beat up and detained opposition members last Tuesday at a rally on central Skanderbeg Square.

12.   Police detain founding member of would-be opposition party.

13.   Police beat up and detained opposition members last Tuesday.

14.   An American crew member was also detained Wednesday, the day the ship was in port, but he was released Friday, police said.

15.   Authorities in eastern China detained five members of an outlawed opposition party and searched one of their homes, a human rights group reported.

16.   Egal has threatened to detain any member of the executive council passing through Somaliland to attend the Bossaso conference.

17.   Eight crew members were detained.

18.   Fourteen alleged members have been detained without trial under internal security laws.

19.   In a letter to President Jiang Zemin, Falun Gong practitioners have threatened to mount more protests if authorities detain sect members ahead of National Day on Sunday.

20.   In the past one week thousands of troops have swept through these neighborhoods conducting house-to-house searches, detaining male members of households and confiscating scores of weapons.