The brigades formed to fight Colonel Qaddafi, and many others that sprang up after the fact, have thwarted the consolidation of a new central authority and become a menace to security, trading deadly gunfire in the streets of the capital, detaining and torturing suspected Qaddafi loyalists, and last week even kidnapping two members of the Transitional National Council for two days.
The police in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, detained 64 opposition demonstrators on Wednesday after marches protesting the results of last week's presidential election.
Matrouk al-Faleh, a professor of political science at King Saud University in Riyadh, the capital, was detained Monday after he left for work, said his wife, Jamila al-Ukla.
Police have broken up an opposition rally in the Azerbaijani capital and detained dozens of activists two days before the country is due to host the final of the Eurovision song contest.
In the run-up to the anniversary, police in the Indian capital Delhi detained more than 30 Tibetan exiles protesting outside the Chinese embassy on Wednesday.
Just shy of a week ago, Zimbabwe's military took power in the capital and detained Mugabe in his home.
Recently, local police seized more than a ton of cocaine at a house outside the capital and detained two Mexicans with alleged ties to the Juarez cartel.
Supporters of Ms. Nawaz said the police also broke up a meeting of members of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League in Rawalpindi today, near the capital, Islamabad, detaining about 30 people.
In the capital Ankara, authorities detained 16 people suspected of planning a major attack, the report said.
Authorities in the Chinese capital on Friday detained a group of activists who tried to visit Liu Xia, the wife of jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo under house arrest at her Beijing home, and beat up Hong Kong journalists who tried to follow them.
