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An exhaustive search of official and unofficial sources turned up fewer that 150 names of individuals arrested for endangering state security in 1998-2002, a "transparency rate" of less than 5%.
Indeed, we know more about the arrests made after the Tiananmen protests of 1989 than about those arrested today.
What we do know about those arrested is as disturbing as the arrests themselves.
Moreover, almost everyone arrested for endangering state security is convicted.
Last month, Huang Qi, an Internet entrepreneur arrested for posting articles criticizing the Communist Party, and four young intellectuals who made up the "New Youth Study Group" to hold online discussions about political reform, were sentenced to long prison terms.
The government arrested Agwa in September 2015 on dubious charges under a counterterrorism law, and he is still detained today.
The right not to be enslaved, not to be physically assaulted, not to be arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned, or executed?
Qari Noor Mohammad, a religious activist in Faisalabad in Punjab province, was arrested recently and held without charge for several days before his corpse was dumped in front of his house.
(Since the start of the year, more than 40 Britons have been arrested on suspicion of engaging in military activities in Syria.)
The first is that stimulus packages around the world arrested the slide into depression, and may have started a modest recovery.
When Farai Maguwu, a Zimbabwean human rights activist, disseminated information about the abuses, he was arrested (he has since been released).
But the judges denied Tempo's request that Winata be arrested and tried for perjury, telling us to report it to the police, which we did.
Since taking over, Hu Jintao has arrested a number of outspoken journalists in an effort to rein in the media.
His government has also detained an array of public intellectuals who have been critical of its policies, including cyber-dissidents Liu Di and Shi Tao (who was arrested thanks to Yahoo’s collaboration with the police in identifying him) and freelance writers Yu Jie and Liu Xiaobo.
The anti-corruption police arrested Mak Chai-kwong, Leung’s first Secretary of Development, only 12 days after he was appointed.
Of the thirteen reformers who were arrested, ten submitted to this demand, but the other three refused and have paid the price.
One cost of the conflict has been the retreat of local governance and arrested development in a desperately poor country where over 80% of the population lives in rural districts.
In 2004, she was arrested and, in 2006, sentenced to six and a half years on embezzlement and tax fraud charges.
He was subsequently disbarred and was himself arrested in April 2006.
Arrested in 2003, they were sentenced in 2005 to eight years in prison on charges of tax fraud.
Sichuan province’s deputy party secretary, Li Chuncheng – known as “Li Chaicheng,” or “Li destroys the city” – was recently arrested on corruption charges for his brazen expropriation of farmers.
People who still insist on talking about it in public are frequently arrested.
The French police arrested a German citizen with a Polish name in connection with the terrorist attack on the synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia.
Israel, blaming Hamas, arrested hundreds of its members in the West Bank, though it has never explained the basis of its accusation.
Mohammad Taghi Khalaji, a cleric and devoted follower of Ayatollah Khomeini, was arrested on January 12 after saying at a Tehran mosque that Iran’s leaders should repent for their actions.
Perhaps the dozens of journalists who have been arrested in Turkey since the coup attempt, or the families of Putin’s many opponents who have ended up dead, could provide some insight into the cost of living in constant fear of the government.
He had no choice: they had arrested his father and would not release him until Huang agreed.
The Authoritarian TemptationNEW YORK – Twenty-four years ago this month, Soviet hardliners, desperate to stop the country’s nascent democratic transition, arrested Mikhail Gorbachev and declared martial law.
Last summer, more than 150,000 women were arrested in Tehran for wearing “bad veils,” and barber shops have been given specific instructions on acceptable hairstyles for young men.
Many democracy activists have been arrested throughout the country.
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