1. On Wednesday the police moved from violence to mass arrests. 2. The nonpartisan, nonviolent and civilly disobedient El Barzon has been hit with mass arrests of its leaders. 3. The government responded by carrying out mass arrests of pro-democracy activists, and by the end of February violent confrontations were taking place between demonstrators and the security forces. 4. Authorities conduct house-to-house raids and mass arrests of any group of men that assembles in public. 5. Because women were regarded by the Nazis as vessels of motherhood, lesbians were spared mass arrest. 6. After thousands of adherents ringed the center of government in a silent protest in April, authorities made mass arrests and banned public practice of Falun Gong. 7. But in the era of the fax and the Internet, mass arrests cannot long be kept secret. 8. But last year, rare public dissent by fundamentalists prompted King Fahd to order mass arrests. 9. But other than the mass arrests at Rampart Division, the day went with few arrests and incidents. 10. But the crackdown, including a series of police raids and mass arrests, have sharply reduced political violence over the last few months. |