1.   Student leaders said Wednesday that they would gather Thursday at the site of the trial, defying a police ban on demonstrations.

2.   The democracy activists wasted no time defying a police ban on unlicensed demonstrations and the police responded that they were not going to waste taxpayer money prosecuting them.

3.   Opposition organizes petition signing despite police ban.

4.   Police arrested scores of pro-Yugoslav demonstrators Friday when they tried to march to the U.S. embassy in defiance of a police ban on further demonstrations against NATO airstrikes.

5.   After a police ban was imposed last week, the protests had been confined to a pedestrian zone.

6.   Armed Forces Commander Gen. Feisal Tanjung, in a meeting with House members, called for an explanation of the police ban.

7.   But when the opposition defied a police ban and tried to rally in the same city square, riot police moved in.

8.   But things turned ugly when the opposition defied a police ban and tried to rally in the same central Tirana square on Tuesday.

9.   Crowds covered the square after opposition leaders urged them to take to the streets, despite an earlier police ban on the original site for the rally.

10.   Defying a police ban, pro-democracy activists took to the streets for peaceful anti-government rallies on Tuesday.