Security forces locked down the town and detained many local people, said I.C.T. and another advocacy group, Free Tibet.
Two weeks after his death, special policemen in khaki uniforms and berets surrounded buildings in the town and detained several men in connection with crimes committed against civilians during the war and with Mr. Levar's death.
In July, fighters from Misrata threatened to attack Bani Walid after two journalists from their town were detained there.
She called me into the house — a strong, clear American voice — fed us, let me file from her miraculously still-working satellite phone, and gave good stern advice on how to get through town without getting detained.
The monk, Jigme, from Labrang Monastery in the town of Xiahe, was detained by security officers after he appeared in a video posted on YouTube in which he described being tortured during another period of detention.
This week, Abdul Melik Firat, a leading Kurdish politician, was detained in the town of Lice after addressing a rally in Kurdish.
The commandos later entered the town's general hospital and detained 50 people suspected of being insurgents.
He had been detained in the town of Birnin Konni since the local anti-slavery organisation Timidria alerted authorities in 2010.
She has been detained in the town of Yuksekova in the Akkari province of Turkey, on the border with Iran with the exact reasons as yet unclear.
Opposition parties said the police had blocked roads leading into the town, Pozarevac in eastern Serbia, detained antigovernment activists and independent journalists and prevented demonstrators from going there.
Enrique Soto, one of the most prominent Dominican buscones — local quasi-coaches who typically receive significant portions of their players' signing bonuses — has been detained in the town of Bani, a prosecutor told The Associated Press.
