Police Detain Opposition Activists

Police in Yugoslavia detained 12 opposition activists and their party’s lawyer during a search of their campaign headquarters in the capital, Belgrade, and also briefly held their party’s leader, supporters said. In the latest of a series of such arrests before countrywide elections Sept. 24, police swooped on a building rented by the Civic Alliance Party in Belgrade, party lawyer Gasa Knezevic told reporters. The independent Beta news agency said the activists had been released after almost 11 hours in detention and hours of protests by relatives and friends outside the main Belgrade police station.