1.   Thursday, after three days of a civil disturbance organized to support a jailed opposition leader, someone threw a grenade into the bazaar.

2.   Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Friday that Malaysia could never accept jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim as a leader because his alleged homosexuality clashes with their Islamic values.

3.   Rakhmonov also pledged to pardon jailed opposition leaders and end criminal proceedings against others, government spokesman Zafar Saidov told the Interfax news agency.

4.   A federal appeal court bowed to the military government Monday and reversed its earlier ruling calling for the release of jailed opposition leader Moshood Abiola.

5.   A regional court in the central Ukrainian city of Cherkasy refused Thursday to release a jailed opposition journalist, ordering him to remain in police custody for another week.

6.   A requested meeting with the jailed opposition leader was also turned down.

7.   A regional court in the central Ukrainian city of Cherkas refused Thursday to release a jailed opposition journalist, ordering him to remain in police custody for another week.

8.   A Sudanese court on Tuesday turned down a prosecution request to extend the detention of jailed opposition leader Hassan Turabi and set a trial date for this weekend.

9.   A team representing parliaments worldwide prepared to leave Malaysia in a huff Wednesday after the government blocked its efforts to collect information about a jailed opposition lawmaker.

10.   As for the jailed opposition members, sentenced earlier this year on charges of sedition, Specter said he asked about the possibility of parole.