1.   Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges.

2.   Five were arrested on a charge of trying to block an entrance to the Treasury Building.

3.   Four were arrested on the orders of the chief public prosecutor, but Mr Honecker was let off because of ill health.

4.   Frye was arrested on state and federal charges, but he managed to beat the rap.

5.   He also frisked drunks and got himself arrested on a vagrancy charge.

6.   He has been arrested on racketeering charges.

7.   He was arrested on suspicion of being an American spy.

8.   He was arrested on suspicion of child abuse.

9.   He was arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs.