The riot had erupted after the police tried to make an illegal arrest of a boy they had decided wasn't showing them enough respect.

He said he would accuse the district of illegal arrest.

He cited other cases of illegal arrests by the police.

To assure overtime from processing the illegal arrests, "you would try to make an arrest at the end of your tours," he said.

That officer, a 12-year veteran, was found to have beaten a Manhattan man with a flashlight after making an illegal arrest.

Many are still under illegal arrest in several Communist-controlled police stations, militia barracks and secret prisons.

Indeed, the jury convicted him in 1998 not of murder but of illegal arrests and detention.

Why should international conventions apply to everyone except Israel, which is carrying out illegal arrests and torture?

And yet the events since Öcalan's illegal arrest do not give us much cause for hope.

Along with all the deportees he was awarded compensation for his illegal arrest and imprisonment.