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Already, dozens of high-level princes, former ministers, and wealthy and influential businessmen have been arrested and had their accounts frozen.
Protesters demanded that specific ministers be arrested and put on trial, and they called for the return of pilfered assets – demands that were rarely met.
In 2002, he was arrested and sentenced to a long prison term on charges that he led the Second Intifada, which had begun two years earlier, and ordered some of its military attacks.
He says that he was arrested after spreading word about a crime that allegedly involved local officials.
He tweeted an SOS via his mobile phone after he was arrested last July, and his case quickly attracted both domestic and international attention, which helped secure his release a little over two weeks later.
Based on official data, 39 generals (including Guo’s son, a major general) have already been arrested.
While massive liquidity injections were effective in unfreezing credit markets and arrested the worst of the crisis – witness the role of the Fed’s first round of QE in 2009-2010 – subsequent efforts have not sparked anything close to a normal cyclical recovery.
Since last November, MBS has had hundreds of members of the Saudi elite – including princes and businessmen with international profiles – arrested on dubious grounds, and with no regard for the rule of law.
But the stubborn truth revealed by the US diplomat emerges every day, despite the impact of drug kingpins who are arrested, the number of weapons discovered, or the amount of cocaine seized.
That question is in the past, of course, but publicly demonstrating the eurozone’s arrested convergence is bound to undermine confidence in the common currency further – and at a most unfortunate moment.
In its 39th Chapter, Magna Carta states: “No free man is to be arrested, or imprisoned, or diseised [dispossessed], or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go against him, nor will we send against him, save by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.”
But over three days that month, the Cuban government arrested Rivero and 27 other independent journalists.
That July, after an uneasy period of sharing power with Prince Norodom Ranariddh’s royalist party, Hun Sen launched a bloody coup in which his opponents were exiled, arrested, tortured, and in some cases summarily executed.
Recall a letter from the convicted terrorist Ramzi Yousef, which was found in his Islamabad safe house after he was arrested in February 1995.
To their credit, Hungary’s police mounted an unprecedented manhunt and, in late August, arrested four suspects, including some who wore swastika tattoos.
Indeed, two thousand people have been arrested over the last three years for such crimes as abuse of power and misappropriation of state property.
More than 2,000 terrorism suspects and those suspected of other major forms of crime have been arrested and extradited on the basis of a European Arrest Warrant.
The sad irony is that Abbas is still cooperating with Israel in curtailing Hamas in the West Bank, and is still detaining hundreds of Hamas militants, among them some who were arrested for planning abductions of Israeli soldiers and civilians.
In violation of a centuries-long tradition of university autonomy, the police marched onto campus, beat up students, and arrested a large number of demonstrators.
When Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other executives of Yukos, his oil company, were arrested last year, corporations investing or interested in investing in Russia were prepared to interpret the crackdown as an isolated incident brought on by the political agenda of the company and its CEO, who should have known better.
As evidence emerged of widespread corruption in contracts and resource allocation, ministers, bureaucrats, and high-level corporate officers were arrested, and some have spent long periods in jail.
In September, Turkish authorities arrested and deported Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink – the third foreign journalist to be detained on terrorism-related charges and expelled from the country this year.
It did not matter that these youthful hawkers, some no more than seven or eight years old, were often arrested, beaten, and locked up for weeks, occasionally months.
Japan arrested the activists, but deported them soon after, thus avoiding a prolonged confrontation with China.
It was the 49th anniversary of that revolt, on March 10, that led monks from two large monasteries near Lhasa to stage demonstrations, in which many of them were arrested, raising tensions in the city.
At least a dozen journalists have been arrested under AIPPA, including the only foreign correspondent permanently based in the country, Andrew Meldrum of the British newspaper The Guardian .
At least her fate looks to be better than that of Ghosn, who was arrested in Tokyo when he landed there in a private jet, and now faces accusations that he misappropriated company funds and paid himself millions of dollars in hidden compensation.
Some have been assassinated, one committed suicide, and others were arrested and condemned to death after stepping down.
The Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has now been arrested on charges of sexual assault, and the company he founded, the Weinstein Company, has collapsed.
Opposition activists were blocked from most campaigning, and often arrested, while Kremlin-controlled courts denied their complaints.
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