Police sources told EFE news agency three people were detained in connection with the protests on the grounds of resisting arrest, disobedience and threatening an agent of authority.
Where anti-homosexual laws encourage, or are believed to encourage, the reporting of MSM to authorities, health care may be seen as an agent of authority rather than an agency for care.
What all conceptualizations and working definitions of the term political prisoner have in common is their acknowledgment of the importance of power relations, specifically between dissidents and agents of governmental authority or ruling elites.
Similarly, the governor's councils, theoretically agents of royal authority, came to be dominated by prominent provincial leaders who tended to reflect the interests of the leadership of the lower house of assembly rather than those of the royal government in London.
Participants indicated that sociocultural differences resulted in divergent expectations with migrants viewing the participants as agents of migration authorities.
The daily newspaper Al Hayat, which is published in London, quoted Mr. Ghossein's son, Tawfiq, as saying that about 20 security agents of the Palestinian Authority abducted his father from the Palestine Hospital on Thursday.
The state of marriage is made possible only by the permission of civil authorities, marriages can be performed by all manner of non-religious persons, and when clergy choose to be involved in such ceremonies, they do so explicitly as agents of those civil authorities, signing a marriage certificate authorized, issued and memorialized by a civil authority.
They said the subpoenas asked for information about lawful behavior that was not relevant to the cases and would, in effect, turn I-Witness into an agent of the authorities.
In April, Halifax Police charged a Border Services agent with using his position of authority to repeatedly sexually assault a woman who was scheduled to be deported.
