These included the arrest and trial of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet, the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and the creation of a United Nations Convention against Torture.
Previously, it had insisted that Serbia must first arrest General Ratko Mladic, indicted by the war-crimes tribunal.
Now, the fear is that they may try to prove that a Chile with General Pinochet under arrest is ungovernable.
Libya's deputy attorney general Taha Baara confirmed the arrest, saying Libya had presented the Egyptian prosecutor general with the case against Mr Gaddaf al-Dam some time ago, says the BBC's Rana Jawad in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
It may be that the arrest of General Pinochet is justifiable in international law.
The arrest of General Pinochet seems set to become a landmark in the history of human rights.
General Pinochet's arrest in London a year ago has helped Mr Lavin, too.
Even before General Pinochet's arrest, there had been signs that it might.
It seems that Mr Sanader recognises that he has no choice but to arrest the general, who, as it happens, had close links with his political enemies.
That myth finally fell apart in 2001 when the armed forces, weakened by General Pinochet's arrest in London in 1998, admitted to the secret disposal of bodies.
According to the first big poll on the issue carried out in Chile since General Pinochet's arrest in London, almost two-thirds of respondents believe that he did indeed commit crimes during his 17-year dictatorship.
General Pinochet's arrest makes Mr Lavin's campaign harder.
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His arrest means that General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serbs' former army commander, is the only major alleged war criminal indicted by the court who is still at large, at least occasionally, in Serbia.
So it was an embarassing climbdown for Mr Lagos when he agreed on December 6th to summon the council though not until after the courts have dealt with an appeal by General Pinochet's lawyers against the arrest warrant.
Home Office boffins justify the six-year retention of innocents' DNA with research showing that people who are let off after an arrest are more likely than the general public to be rearrested.
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Regarding the recent corruption case in the Lower Chamber, the vice-president who runs the government's anti-corruption programme, and the office of the prosecutor general, prompted the investigation leading to the arrest of several of those responsible.
Another help has been General Pinochet's own declining power since his arrest in London in 1998 on human-rights abuse charges.
She was placed under house arrest before her party won the 1990 general elections, which the ruling military junta did not recognize.
Also snagged in the same purge that year was military intelligence chief, General Khin Nyunt, who was put under house arrest for unspecified charges.
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The arrest of the two Serbs -- General Djordje Djukic and Colonel Aleksa Krsmanovic -- raised a key issue: how to pursue war criminals while at the same time maintaining an environment in which all Bosnians can move around freely.
It also said its decision had nothing to do with the arrest of the group's secretary-general by U.S. forces December 31 in Mosul.
Ironically, Mr Lavin was also helped by the arrest last year and continued detention in London of General Pinochet.
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MDC's secretary-general, Tendai Biti, has been in prison since his arrest at Harare airport after coming back from South Africa earlier this month.
When asked yesterday by a reporter if placing her under house arrest last week actually increased her popularity, the general gave a tetchy response.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades has called for renewed attacks on Israel in retaliation for the death this week of popular Fatah leader Raed Karmi and the arrest of Ahmad Sa'adat, secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Just look at what the Reagan administration said following Younis' capture: "This operation illustrates the intention and ability of the United States to invoke the rule of law in fighting terrorist lawlessness, " Attorney General Edwin Meese III declared at a news conference following the arrest.
Golkar's Marzuki Darusman, the attorney-general, has spearheaded the corruption investigation against Suharto and ordered the arrest of Bob Hasan, a Suharto business crony.
"This victory is paramount to preserving our law enforcement officers' ability to use police dog alerts to locate illegal drugs and arrest those who possess them, " said Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The Spanish judge pursuing the former dictator of Chile, General Augusto Pinochet, for torture, issued international warrants for the arrest of two former presidents of Argentina and 96 other members of its military dictatorship.
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