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Article: Sinn Fein pickets Northern Ireland police stations over raids, arrests

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Dateline: BELFAST, Northern Ireland Sinn Fein activists protested outside police stations across Northern Ireland on Saturday after officers raided offices of the Irish Republican Army-linked party in search of stolen British documents.

Detectives continued to question three Sinn Fein activists and a former British government employee arrested during swoops Friday on homes in Catholic parts of west and north Belfast. Under British anti-terror laws, the suspects could be held for up to a week.

To the fury of Sinn Fein leaders, police also invaded the party's office in Stormont Parliamentary Building, seat of power for the Catholic- Protestant administration and ...

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