* 1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested.

* 1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.

The government claimed that this was a communist document, and consequently leaders of the ANC and Congress were arrested.

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In 1917 Serbia's government in exile arrested the leadership of the Black Hand wishing to halt their underground influence in both the army and politics.

Having accused the government of fraud, six opposition leaders were arrested ( twice ) and one opposition party activist was killed following the announcement of election results.

With the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in 1974, the new Marxist government arrested Abuna Theophilos and secretly executed him in 1979.

On 14 September 1960, with U. S. and CIA support, Colonel Joseph Mobutu overthrew the government and arrested Lumumba.

Independent local sources of political information on Eritrean domestic politics are scarce ; in September 2001 the government closed down all of the nation's privately owned print media, and outspoken critics of the government have been arrested and held without trial, according to domestic and international observers, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

At around the same time, nineteen officers of Galois ' former unit were arrested and charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government.

By 1943, after Italy faced multiple military failures, complete reliance and subordination of Italy to Germany, and Allied invasion of Italy, and corresponding international humiliation, Mussolini was removed as head of government and arrested by the order of King Victor Emmanuel III who proceeded to dismantle the Fascist state and declared Italy's switching of allegiance to the Allied side.

In 1954 a military government replaced Arbenz ' government and disbanded the legislature and they arrested communist leaders, Castillo Armas became president.

The leaders of PDPA apparently feared that Daoud was planning to exterminate them all, especially since most of them were arrested by the government shortly after.

The government banned several democratic and socialist newspapers in France ; the editors were arrested.

" One month after Yalta, the Soviet NKVD arrested 16 Polish leaders wishing to participate in provisional government negotiations, for alleged " crimes " and " diversions ", which drew protest from the West.

In early 1863, Booth was arrested in St. Louis while on a theatre tour, when he was heard saying he " wished the President and the whole damned government would go to hell ".

In June 1917 Besant was arrested and interned by the British government.

Later the same day several more opposition figures were arrested, while the government claimed to have regained control of the situation.

The government suspected the UGCC was behind the protests and on 12 March 1948 arrested Nkrumah and other party leaders.

In March 2007, former interim president Bryant was arrested and charged with having embezzled government funds while in office.

The following day, the Soviet was surrounded by troops loyal to the government and the deputies were arrested.

On 11 November, the Malaysian government briefly detained de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday and arrested a human rights lawyer and about a dozen opposition leaders, amid growing complaints the government is cracking down on dissent.

Journalists who are captured or detained during a conflict are expected to be treated as civilians and to be released to their national government.

A number of government officials were detained after the coup including the head of the Supreme Court, Mahfoud Ould Lemrabott, and the Secretary of State for Women's Affairs, Mintata Mint Hedeid.

The government has granted amnesties to political and non-political prisoners, but this was believed to have benefited only a small proportion of those detained.

By November 2002, Yemeni government troops detained 104 suspected al-Qaeda members.

The Nigerian government accuses MASSOB of violence ; MASSOB's leader, Ralph Uwazuruike, was arrested in 2005 and is being detained on treason charges ; MASSOB is calling for his release.

They also detained their British officers, several noncommissioned officers, and the minister of interior, Felix Onama, who had arrived in Jinja to represent government views to the rank and file.

The government responded two days later by dismissing several hundred soldiers from the army, several of whom were subsequently detained.

* William N. Oatis, Associated Press correspondent detained 1951-1953 by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.

Saddam Hussein's government detained hundreds of citizens of Western countries who were in Iraq for use as human shields in an attempt to deter nations from participating in military operations against the country.

A State of Emergency was declared by Manley's party the PNP in June and 500 people, including some prominent members of the JLP, were accused of trying to overthrow the government and were detained, without charges, in a specially created prison at the Up-Park Camp military headquarters.

" The expedition was detained by the government for five months, and forced to live in tents in sub-zero conditions and to subsist on meagre rations.

The Chinese government promised to issue permits allowing people to protest in ' protest parks ' during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but a majority of the applications were withdrawn, suspended, or vetoed, and the police detained some of the people who applied.

Armstrong also faced criticism after government defeats in the Commons over the length of time suspected terrorists could be detained without charge, and incitement to religious hatred provisions in the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005.

The Irish government first detained the IRA's leaders under the Offences Against the State Act and later introduced internment for all IRA activists.

Patrice Lumumba's government was overthrown and Lumumba taken prisoner by Mobutu and detained at Camp Hardy in Thysville.

Other key government officials were also detained.

The Popular Front's founding manifesto condemned the actions of the conservative-led government, demanding the release of political prisoners detained after November 1933, the re-hiring of state employees who had been suspended, fired, or transferred " without due process or for reasons of political persecution ", it proposed establishing an independent judiciary from government control, the investigation and prosecution of acts of unwarranted violence by police, and revision of the Law of Public Order to protect the rights of citizens against arbitrary power.

Peng Dehuai was denounced in 1959, made a brief return to government in 1965, but was detained by Red Guards from 1966 and died in prison from torture and maltreatment in 1974.

In the 1940s the federal government forcibly detained people of Japanese ancestry in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Lucas Guttengag, director of the ACLU Immigrants ’ Rights Project stated that, “ immigrants awaiting administrative hearings are being detained in conditions that would be unacceptable at prisons for criminal offenders .” Such examples include “ travelers without visas ” ( TWOVs ) being held in motels near airports nicknamed “ Motel Kafkas ” that are under the jurisdiction of private security officers who have no affiliation to the government, often denying them telephones or fresh air, and there are some cases where detainees have been shackled and sexually abused according to Guttengag.

After Khaleda Zia was detained by the caretaker government in 2007, some party members chose former finance minister Saifur Rahman as chairman and former water resources minister Major ( Rtd.

In 1998, Pol Pot himself died, and other key KR leaders Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary surrendered to the government of Hun Sen in exchange for immunity from prosecution, leaving Ta Mok as the sole commander of the Khmer Rouge forces ; he was detained in 1999 for " crimes against humanity.