1.   To make up for the low level of government support, Garcia has turned to the international network of solidarity groups that supported the Front during the civil war.

2.   It could result in the formation of an economic solidarity group mobilising Asian funds to bail out stricken Asian countries.

3.   Prisoners solidarity group Ozgur Tayad identified the activists as Juliette June Wales of the United States and Stephen Kaczynski of Britain.

4.   Prisoner solidarity group Tayad said at least five of the defendants were former hunger strikers.

5.   India and Bangladesh had earlier turned down requests to allow the conference to be held there, members of the local solidarity group said.