11.   The release of the detainees came as the United States announced that an envoy would be sent to Rangoon to help seek the freedom of the detained NLD activists.

12.   US officials also said that an envoy would be sent to Rangoon to help seek the freedom of the detained NLD activists.

13.   LBH lawyer Bambang Wijoyanto told AFP later Monday that the detained activists had been released.

14.   Prihartono, from the Team for the Defense of Indonesian Justice, which is representing the detained activists, was speaking at the National Commission on Human Rights Friday.

15.   Representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross met with the detained activists on Friday and reported they were in good health.

16.   Scores of detained activists from a Moslem fundamentalist party involved in recent unrest in northwest Pakistan have been released, news reports said Tuesday.

17.   Serious political and economic retaliation could befall China if detained activist Harry Wu, a U.S. citizen, is not released immediately, several U.S. Congressmen warned Wednesday.

18.   The CLO condemned the arrests and called for the immediate release of the detainees and all other detained pro-democracy activists.

19.   The NLC, which announced the end of the strike late Thursday, made this conditional on the release of Oshiomhole and all other detained labour activists.