He was accused by the Pakistani government of fomenting terrorist activities in the restive southwest province of Baluchistan and sentenced to death last month.
Others with knowledge of the interrogations said the Cumhuriyet journalists were repeatedly questioned on their editorial policies and decisions, and that they faced allegations of fomenting terrorist propaganda.
The government has dismissed tens of thousands of civil servants, judges, prosecutors, academics and members of the security forces, arrested dozens of journalists and closed media outlets over allegations of fomenting terrorist propaganda.
Mr. Walters was reliably reported to have pressed the case for sterner sanctions against Libya, explaining the Reagan Administration's belief that the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, had fomented recent terrorist attacks.
They included writing, publishing or distributing material, running a website, or preaching that could "foment, justify, or glorify terrorist violence", provoke others to terrorist acts or foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK.
Eight of the 16 named were Muslim clerics, writers and political advocates identified in brief sketches on the Home Office Web site as "engaging in unacceptable behavior" by "seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence".
A wave of terrorist violence could foment so much popular discontent with the government of President Asif Ali Zardari, he said, that Pakistan might then try to pressure the Obama administration to scale back its drone campaign.
Despite the increased Russian public pressure on the Syrian government, Mr. Lavrov did echo Syrian government claims that the violence was being fomented by imported terrorists working at the behest of foreign governments — "a clear hand of Al Qaeda, and the threat of terrorism is growing".
That is precisely why the terrorists are trying to foment hatred and division in Iraq.
They include expressing views which "foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence", "seeking to provoke others to terrorist acts", fomenting "other serious criminal activity", or encouraging hatred "which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK".
