BATAM, Indonesia (Reuters) - Around 48 activists from 16 countries who wanted to attend the IMF-World Bank meetings or related events in Singapore have been deported, banned or interrogated by police, a rights group said on Sunday.
The organizers of the International People's Forum on the Indonesian island of Batam -- where NGOs are staging an alternative meeting -- said that 12 activists had been deported, 27 had been warned they might be questioned or turned away and nine had been interrogated at Singapore's Changi airport.