More recently, the infighting and danger has grown so severe that Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a former Shabaab leader (of a more nationalist bent) fled the group, surrendering to arrest by the TFG.
But, even where there is no violence, people have become weary of the sight of large numbers of native men and women surrendering themselves to arrest and being led into huge police vans.
Those led by Vojislav Kostunica, meanwhile, who loathed the tribunal, asked people to surrender but refused to arrest anyone.
A Greek policeman who testified said all eight were unarmed and cooperative after landing, offered no resistance to arrest, surrendered immediately and asked for political asylum.
It said that Mr. Arafat feared being seen as surrendering if he acted to arrest militants and to take other measures publicly demanded by Israel.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 5 — The lead prosecutor of the International Criminal Court urged the Security Council on Wednesday to put pressure on Sudan to arrest and surrender two men indicted by the tribunal last spring for war crimes in Darfur.
Bashir's visit to Chad would be his fourth in four years since the arrest warrants were issued despite Chad being a state party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which carries with it obligations to arrest and surrender any ICC suspect.
Armed police in balaclavas seized the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim today, an hour before the time at which he had agreed to surrender to an arrest warrant on sodomy charges.
Learning from news accounts that the authorities wanted to arrest her, she surrendered to the police at dawn on Sept. 4 to avoid being led away in handcuffs, and since then has been free on $5,000 bond.
Gen. Rahim Ademi surrendered after the tribunal's prosecutor pressured Croatia to arrest him and another Croat commander for trial.
