11.   New York-based Human Rights Watch had urged the donors to pressure Vietnam for the release of detained religious leaders, dissidents and ethnic minority Christians.

12.   Relatives of the detained leaders said police neither showed them arrest warrants nor said why they were being picked up.

13.   The government has promised to free all detained political leaders to create a congenial atmosphere for dialogue.

14.   For more than a year, contacts between the government and the detained leaders of the FIS, Abassi Madani and Ali Belhadj, have foundered.

15.   Gusmao is the detained leader of the Fretilin pro-independence guerrilla group in East Timor.

16.   He also called for the release of detained union leaders or an end to their detention without trial.

17.   It also called for the release of several other detained Kashmiri leaders.

18.   Interior Minister Sheikh Muhammad al-Khalifah informed a delegation of Shiite leaders Monday that the authorities refused to free the detained leader.

19.   An FKM activist told AFP by telephone from the airport that Manuputty had arrived in Jakarta at dusk Thursday along with another detained separatist leader, Sammy Weileruni.

20.   An FKM activist told AFP that Manuputty was due to arrive in Jakarta before dusk Thursday along with another detained separatist leader, Sammy Weileruni.