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Arrests


1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati

1994 Garson Romalis, abortion doctor, killed (no arrests)

1985 FBI arrests John A Walker, Jr., convicted of spying for U.S.S.R.

1985 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders

1981 Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists

1973 Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders

1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days

1965 Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia

1964 Police arrests 800 sit-in students at Univeristy of California at Berkeley

1961 New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players

1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis

1957 Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders

1957 FBI arrests Jack and Myra Sobel, charged with spying for U.S.S.R.

1953 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia

1950 Massive arrests of communists in France

1949 Mass arrests of communists in India

1946 British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv

1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg

1944 Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber

1943 France arrests government of Lebanon

1943 Seyss-Inquart orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians

1942 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrests 2,000 Dutch officers

1936 FBI's J. Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis

1933 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname

1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru

1923 Mass arrests in U.S. of mafia

1923 Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy

1579 King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez and princess van Eboli

1568 English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary


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