31.   The state has charged Sattar with kidnapping, endangering the safety of passengers, forging official documents and carrying unlicensed weapons.

32.   Under the amnesty, the government would not prosecute anyone who turned in an unlicensed weapon by July, he said.

33.   The Palestinian Authority led by Arafat has set Friday as a deadline for unlicensed weapons to be handed in.

34.   The Palestinian Authority led by Yasser Arafat has also set Friday as a deadline for unlicensed weapons to be handed in.

35.   The row at the court came after the judge rejected bail for a PML parliamentarian who was arrested earlier this year on a charge of possessing an unlicensed weapon.

36.   The self-rule authority also gave Palestinians a deadline of midnight Friday to turn in unlicensed weapons as part of a crackdown ordered by Israel.

37.   The public prosecutor demanded the death sentence for the five on charges of kidnapping the businessman, resisting authorities and possessing unlicensed weapons.

38.   They were convicted by separate emergency tribunals of committing premeditated murder and banditry and of possessing unlicensed weapons in separate incidents in North and South Darfur states.

39.   TJP leader Hasan Turabi says his men do not carry unlicensed weapons, but he too is surrounded by armed activists.

40.   Under new firearms control legislation introduced in October, holders of unlicensed weapons can be imprisoned and conditions for a licence are much narrower and more strictly defined.