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Among the figures detained is Ekrem Dumanli, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Zaman.
While he is now in prison, two other prominent figures detained recently by fraud investigators, have been released, apparently for lack of evidence.
But it also needs to distance itself from Mr Chen and the corruption scandals.A further complication is that one of the other senior DPP figures detained without charge is Su Chih-fen.
But the agreement is a temporary one, and some issues, particularly the fate of the eleven political figures detained in Juba, will be dealt with separately, in later talks.
The country's election commission, whose chairman General Musharraf appointed, will provide "absolutely aboveboard" election rules, he said, and opposition figures detained over the last week would be released and allowed to run in elections.
The TV satirist Bassem Youssef is among at least 20 well-known opposition figures detained last week by the Egyptian authorities in what campaigners say amounts to the most serious crackdown on free speech since the military dictatorship that ended last summer.
It is the second time within weeks that a high-profile figure detained in a largely secret investigation has been found dead.
The suspect, known as Abu Issa al-Hindi, was described by the officials as by far the most important Qaeda figure detained as part of an American-led effort to unravel the tangle of clues uncovered with the discovery in Pakistan of computer files containing the surveillance reports.
Prominent opposition figures were detained on Saturday and Sunday.
The judge echoed the prosecutorial argument that the building, the nerve center of Stalin's reign of terror, was integral to Russian cultural heritage because "many cultural and political figures" were detained there.
On Monday, opposition Web sites reported that several opposition figures were detained, including former Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi; Emad Baghi, a human rights activist; and three of Mr. Moussavi's top aides.
