51.   Chee ignored the police and kept talking, saying that the government ban on scarves was hypocritical.

52.   Defying a government ban, dissidents have started a branch of an unauthorized opposition party in Beijing and Tianjin, a leader of the group said Tuesday.

53.   Despite a government ban, dissidents across China are preparing to found an opposition party challenging Communist Party rule, a human rights group said Thursday.

54.   Despite a government ban, firing guns is a still common way to celebrate weddings in southern Egypt.

55.   Despite a government ban, supporters of former President Sali Berisha held a rally in the main Tirana square.

56.   Dynamite fishing, in which explosives are used to kill and stun large numbers of fish, is common in Vietnam, despite a government ban.

57.   Early this year two Christian priests, one of whom had defied a government ban on proselytizing, were found murdered in mysterious circumstances in Tehran.

58.   During the previous Iraq-U.N. standoff in February, the front and other groups defied a government ban and staged pro-Iraq protests in southern Jordan that turned violent.

59.   Durmus was participating in a sit-in outside the party building Friday when police broke up the protest against a government ban on a party gathering.

60.   Firing weapons at weddings is still common practice in the south, despite a government ban on the practice.