31.   Bahraini officials said on Saturday that jailed opposition leaders were being well treated and denied they were being force-fed to break their hunger strike.

32.   The strike, now in its ninth week, has been called to press the military to relinquish power and release jailed opposition leader Moshood Abiola.

33.   It followed a summer of unrest in which many oppposition leaders were jailed or, like Suleiman, forced to flee into exile.

34.   Oil workers Monday began the ninth week of a nationwide strike called to press the military to relinquish power and release jailed opposition leader Moshood Abiola.

35.   Officials said on Saturday that jailed opposition leaders were being well treated and denied they were being force-fed to break their hunger strike.

36.   The alleged rebel leader was jailed at an army base and would be transferred to Bogota on Friday, Radio Caracol said.

37.   The demonstrators asked for democracy and respect for human rights in Vietnam, and demanded the release of political prisoners and jailed religious leaders.

38.   The island was once a French penal colony known as Paulo Condore and several top Vietnamese leaders were jailed there.