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Acabábamos de salir de un pub y estaban arrestando a unos jóvenes adultos por alguna razón – nunca se me olvidara eso.	We had just come out of a pub and there were some young men being arrested for some reason–and I will never forget this.
Señalé la ironía — a centenares de nosotros que estábamos luchando por la justicia y la necesidad de un mundo mejor, nos estaban acorralando los capataces brutales de un estado brutal y nos estaban arrestando por la fuerza, pues ¿quién era el antagónico?	I pointed out the irony here—hundreds of us who were fighting for justice and the need for a better world were being penned in by brutal enforcers of a brutal state and detained through force, now who was being antagonistic?
Oí que estaban arrestando a gente de la fábrica.	I heard they were arresting people at the factory.
Pero cuando vi la cinta en la que te estaban arrestando pensé, "tengo que hablar con esta mujer".	But when I saw this tape of you getting arrested I thought I have got to talk to this woman.
Los portales del web informan que en Shiraz manifestantes pelearon con los milicianos Basij y liberaron a un grupo de manifestantes que los milicianos estaban arrestando.	Web sites report that in Shiraz, protesters skirmished with Basij militiamen and freed a group of fellow protesters who were being arrested.
Estupefacta, confundida y con su bebé recién nacido de tres semanas, siguió a los agentes afuera para enterarse de qué estaban arrestando a su hermano.	Stunned, confused, and holding her three-week-old newborn, she followed the officers outside to find out what her brother was being arrested for.
Sí, estaban arrestando a muchos profesores y universitarios. Bánzer llegó al poder a través de un golpe de estado muy sangriento.	Yes. Lots of university students and professors were being arrested, too. Banzer came into power through a violent coup. I didn't know anything at the time about the SOA.
En abril 1939, Cuando los Nazis estaban arrestando a judíos en Berlín, Mikhail de siete años y su hermano de tres años de edad Robert fueron enviados solos a Estados Unidos a unirse a su padre, que había huido de meses anteriores.	In April 1939, when the Nazis were arresting Jews in Berlin, seven-year-old Mikhail and his three-year-old brother Robert were sent alone to the United States to join their father, who had fled months earlier.
Estaban arrestando a mi novio por algo que no ha hecho.	My boyfriend was being arrested for something that he didn't do.