21.   Four more democracy activists have been detained and their homes searched by police in a widening crackdown on dissidents in China, a human rights group said Thursday.

22.   Greenpeace said the eight environmental activists were detained after they boarded the British submarine and unfurled protest banners.

23.   He said police ordered the banner removed and detained activists until the motorcade passed.

24.   Human rights groups often cite a law remaining from the era when Singapore was a British colony that allows the government to indefinitely detain political activists without trial.

25.   In recent days, authorities also have detained other activists trying to establish the China Democracy Party.

26.   In recent weeks, at least three dozen political activists have been detained by police.

27.   In the past few days, police in Cairo and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria have detained pro-Palestinian activists, apparently to prevent them from organizing protests.

28.   It also reported seven other activists were detained Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

29.   Meanwhile, the Tajik Interior Ministry said three Hizb ut-Tahrir activists were detained Sunday and Monday in Dushanbe and two provincial towns.

30.   Neither the KDP statement nor the newspaper said how many activists had been detained or when they were arrested.