Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders of the prodemocracy movement, "important figures who incited and organized this counterrevolutionary insurrection in the capital," to turn themselves in for "lenient treatment." The decrees set up a spy-and-report network, complete with 18 telephone hot lines, so that citizens could help round up dissidents. Fearful of arrest, student leaders who had survived the carnage went underground or fled the city. The astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, a leading dissident who was prevented by the government from dining with George Bush during the President's visit last February, sought refuge in the U.S. embassy; the presence of the "traitor" there...
...began with a series of confrontations with the regime of the Shah. In 1962 he led a general strike of the clergy to protest reforms allowing witnesses in court to swear by any "divine book," instead of the Koran alone. By the spring of 1963 he was under house arrest for telling huge crowds at Qum that just a "flick of the finger" could sweep away the Shah. Soon after his release a few months later, Khomeini was arrested again, this time for fomenting riots against a modernization program that included land reform. He was imprisoned for half a year...
...Arnold Brown '89 is arrested for allegedly kicking a man with his foot after being hit by his car. Brown, who is Black, charges racial harassment and says officers preferentially interviewed white witnesses and made racist remarks during his arrest...
Such circumstances are by no means unique to Harvard. As far away as Stanford and Howard Universities, and as near as the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, students protested, occupied buildings and faced arrest for their belief in the responsibilities of a pluralist society...
...arrest of five teenagers in New Jersey for an assault on a mentally impaired 17-year-old girl stirs outrage and intensifies debate over the causes of adolescent violence...