41.   Chile had canceled the flights to protest the arrest of its former head of state, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, in Britain.

42.   China has protested the arrest of the fishermen and demanded their immediate release.

43.   China has protested the arrest of the fishermen near Scarborough Shoal and demanded their immediate release, saying the shoal has been part of Chinese territory since ancient times.

44.   Carter and other U.S. observers protested the arrest of at least four Palestinian observers at one polling station in Jerusalem.

45.   Chinese dissidents on hunger strike to protest arrests.

46.   DeCosse, meanwhile, said a Cuban human rights activist fasting since October to protest the arrest of a fellow dissident was hospitalized Tuesday.

47.   Dozens of Kurds burst into the Greek Embassy in Moscow on Tuesday to protest the arrest of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.

48.   Dozens of Bosnian Serbs on Wednesday blocked routes linking their territory to Sarajevo with sandbags, to protest recent arrests of three Bosnian Serb war crimes suspects.

49.   Dozens of people have been on hunger strike to protest the arrest, and protests have been held in the capital and in his native Jalalabad region.

50.   Enraged Kurds occupied diplomatic headquarters in Switzerland and London for a second day Wednesday protesting the arrest of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan.