21.   Philippine ties with Malaysia were strained last year when Estrada openly expressed support for Anwar and considered boycotting an international forum in Kuala Lumpur to protest the arrest.

22.   Philippine ties with Malaysia were strained when Estrada openly expressed support for Anwar and considered boycotting an international forum in Malaysia to protest the arrest.

23.   Police detained a group of female students on Tuesday, forcing them into a police station as they protested the arrest of two fellow students.

24.   Police fired tear gas Saturday to break up a sit-in by hundreds of university students protesting the arrest of a student activist in earlier demonstrations.

25.   Police firing tear gas broke up a demonstration of hundreds of people protesting arrests in connection with November riots.

26.   A faction of the Marri tribe is protesting the arrest of their tribal chief by the government in connection with the slaying of a judge last year.

27.   A group of ethnic Albanians from the northwestern Poroj village erected their own roadblock late Friday, protesting the arrest of an ethnic Albanian.

28.   A four-party opposition alliance called a nationwide strike Tuesday, the third this month, to protest the arrest of two Islamic clerics who are also alliance leaders.

29.   A pro-Palestinian group and an organization representing pharmacists on Saturday protested the arrest of a pro-Palestinian activist, saying his detention is politically motivated.

30.   A voluntary agency Thursday protested the arrest of two of its members for allegedly trying to whip up communal strife between Muslims and minority Hindus.