21.   They detained him for three days, releasing him on bail only Saturday after confiscating his passport.

22.   Police confiscated their passports and forbade any contact between them.

23.   Police had confiscated his passport but returned it last week after he gave an undertaking that he would not travel outside Phnom Penh without informing the police first.

24.   A human rights activist began a hunger strike Monday, saying the government was harassing him by confiscating his passport and getting him fired from his job.

25.   After landing back at Lagos, Okpomo said, his name was called, he was ordered off the plane and Nigerian security agents confiscated his passport.

26.   Authorities have confiscated her passport.

27.   But when he arrived in the former Saigon last Thursday, he was taken to immigration officials, who confiscated his passport because he had no visa.

28.   Cem said police tried to confiscate the passports of Galatasaray players but desisted after he complained to the Italian ambassador.

29.   Cem said police tried to confiscate the passports of Galatasaray players but that the move was prevented after the minister called the Italian ambassador in protest.

30.   El-Zain said his passport was confiscated.