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.
It may be that the arrest of General Pinochet is justifiable in international law.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
More important still, it might give him political cover to do the unthinkable: to order the arrest of the two big fish still at large, General Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic (if either is in Serbia).
Mr Gaddaf al-Dam played down the arrest, saying he was going voluntarily to Cairo's prosecutor general with his lawyers "to file a complaint".
The arrest comes one day after Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard called a general election for 14 September, with plans for parliament to be dissolved on 12 August.
As if that were not enough, the prosecutor general's office also said it had issued an international warrant for the arrest of Nikolai Gololobov, a lawyer representing Yukos.
"He is not comfortable, but as a good soldier he is used to this, " said Rios Montt's lawyer, Francisco Palomo, who is expected to seek to have the ex-general transferred to a hospital or to have his sentence be served under house arrest.
When John Ashcroft announced the arrest of an American citizen in Chicago three years ago, the attorney general said Jose Padilla had been plotting to detonate a dirty bomb in the United States.
"All these actions of the Uzbek government in general and the numerous investigations of our company over the last two months, the arrest of our personnel and the absurd accusations from different branches of government - we consider all these actions as exerting pressure on our business in Uzbekistan, " Ms Kuzmenko said.
General Pinochet returned to Chile in March from London where he spent 16 months under house arrest while fighting a Spanish judge's efforts to extradite him for trial over human rights abuses.
He was taken to Furness General Hospital and had to be sedated before he could be assessed, but suffered a cardiac arrest and died.
After his February arrest, the Federal Police released the boy into the custody of the Mexican Attorney General's Office, which later set him free in compliance with the law.
In a statement, state Attorney General Linda Kelly said the two new alleged victims contacted law-enforcement officials after hearing about the arrest of Mr. Sandusky.
The general pardon was supposed to encourage guerrillas to reintegrate peacefully in Macedonian society by releasing them from fear of arrest or persecution for fighting the state.
The grand jury investigation that led to Sandusky's November arrest is still meeting and could be hearing from more potential victims, but the Pennsylvania attorney general's office has not said if more charges will be filed.
Emergency-services experts say that in general odds of survival are reduced by 10% for every minute a person is collapsed from a sudden cardiac arrest without cardiopulmonary resuscitation or defibrillation.
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