1.   Police came to the scene shortly after and detained Greenpeace activist Mario Damato, a Spaniard, and also carried away the others.

2.   Police came to the scene shortly after and detained Greenpeace activist Mario De Mato, a Spaniard, and also carried away the others lying on on the ground.

3.   Meanwhile, the Lebanese army said Saturday it referred detained activist Toufic Hindy, a senior official of the disbanded Christian Lebanese Forces group, to court for trial.

4.   No names of the detained activists were released.

5.   Support for detained political activists also comes from academia, who regularly send petitions to the Indonesian authorities expressing their concerns.

6.   They said charges of endangering state security leveled at detained activists Zhang Shanguang and Chen Zengxiang are trumped-up.

7.   United Nations refugee officials met Wednesday with detained Vietnamese anti-communist activists to determine whether they would face persecution if deported to their homeland.

8.   As US officials pressed Beijing Wednesday to release detained activist Harry Wu, several congressmen threatened to seek retaliation against China if the US citizen is not returned home.

9.   Both the deceased and the detained MQM activists were wanted in several cases of terrorism, they added.

10.   Earlier, Falungong activists in Washington demanded the release of the detained activists, and called on Bush to raise their plight when he visits China next week.