Beijing: A blind legal activist who escaped house arrest in his Chinese village is under the protection of American officials, activists said on Saturday, creating a diplomatic dilemma for the US and Beijing days ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Chen Guangcheng, who has exposed forced abortions and sterilizations in villages as a result of China's one-child policy, fled from his guarded home a week...
04:30 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New York: Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn walked out of court free on bail on Friday after prosecutors said an extensive background investigation of the hotel housekeeper accusing him of sexual assault gave them pause. Strauss-Kahn had been under pricey house arrest for weeks in a ritzy Manhattan loft on $ 6 million in cash and bond. The charges, which include attempted rape, have not been reduced, but...
09:31 PM, Jul 01, 2011
Yangon: For the first time in nearly a decade, Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her birthday in freedom on Sunday, with supporters freeing symbolic caged birds as more than 50 state security agents watched from across the street. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate turned 66, and received one gift at Yangon's international airport - the arrival of her youngest son, Kim Aris, who lives in Britain and...
09:06 AM, Jun 20, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in a mass uprising last month, is under house arrest along with his family, the ruling military informed on Monday, rubbishing reports that the de-throned leader had fled to Saudi Arabia. The announcement came on the official Facebook page of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and is intended to quash rumours that Mubarak had taken refuge in Saudi Arabia...
07:34 PM, Mar 28, 2011
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav was placed under house arrest on Monday along with his son Akhilesh Singh. The step to house arrest the father-son duo was taken as the Samajwadi Party (SP) has planned to hold three-day agitation against the "misrule" of the BSP-led government starting from Monday across the state. "I was not allowed to move out of the house to attend Lok Sabha. This...
10:18 AM, Mar 07, 2011
Cairo: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appeared increasingly cornered on saturday amid reports that his deputy Omar Suleiman and top military leaders were discussing steps to nudge him from power, a day after tens of thousands of protesters rallied here demanding his immediate ouster. Despite mounting global clamour for him to step down immediately, 82-year-old Mubarak, who has been in power since 1981, refused to bow to the pressure. Seeking immediate...
10:36 AM, Feb 05, 2011
Cairo: Pro-democracy leader Mohamed ElBaradei was on Friday night placed under house arrest amid mounting opposition to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with police in several cities in Egypt. ElBaradei, Nobel peace laureate and former IAEA chief, was confined to his residence as unprecedented countrywide protests turned violent forcing police to fire rubber bullets, tear gas and use water cannons. Egyptian state...
10:11 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Filmmaker accused of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. ...
06:00 PM, Dec 04, 2009
Suu Kyi's gets another 18 months of house arrest, intruder gets hard labour. ...
12:16 PM, Aug 11, 2009
Suu Kyi's been held under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years. ...
09:28 PM, May 27, 2009
Suu Kyi charged with breaking the terms of her house arrest. ...
11:57 AM, May 15, 2009
India has charged LeT with the 26/11 Mumbai carnage. ...
02:26 AM, May 06, 2009
This because of concerns expressed by the United States and the UK. ...
12:54 AM, Feb 10, 2009
al-Qaeda no 3 Khalid Sheikh Mohd told US sources in 2003 of bomb plot. ...
06:17 PM, Feb 09, 2009
Pakistan released disgraced nuke scientist AQ Khan from house arrest. ...
08:50 AM, Feb 08, 2009
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