11.  The banned opposition Dashnak party is pursuing efforts to win back its official recognition by the government.

12.  The Interior Ministry official blamed the banned opposition group Mujahedeen Khalq Organization for the attack.

13.  The Interior Ministry has blamed the banned opposition group Mujahedeen Khalq for the attack.

14.  The leader of a banned opposition party in Mauritania was arrested shortly after returning from a trip to Saudi Arabia, party members said Sunday.

15.  Though he declined to mention the name of the other political party, observers here believe he may have been referring to the banned opposition Khmer Nation Party.

16.  Tong helped organize a branch of a banned opposition group, the China Democracy Party, at the university and was preparing to recruit professors and students.

17.  Two dissidents linked to a banned opposition political party were detained by police Saturday in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, a human rights group reported.

18.  Xie, from the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, was an organizer in a banned dissident opposition group, the China Democracy Party.

19.  Wu was a founding member of a banned opposition party.

20.  A banned Shiite opposition group, the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, said the Gulf state had been put under martial law.