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Thu 10 Oct 2007Defrocked rebel nuns arrested in police swoop on Polish conventPoland:Polish police stormed a convent yesterday and arrested more than 60 rebel nuns and a monk who had refused to leave the building after being expelled from their order by the Vatican.About 65 nuns barricaded themselves inside the convent at Kazimierz Dolny in eastern Poland two years ago in protest at the Vatican's decision to replace their mother superior, Jadwiga Ligocka, over unspecified allegations about her personal conduct.