1. The Legal Affairs Minister, Roger Chonwe, declared that to detain people without charge would be illegal and an abuse of human rights. 2. Two more people were detained after incidents yesterday afternoon. 3. Although the police have detained people for questioning, there have been no prosecutions. 4. And the police have been detaining people, including journalists, who wander near the base asking questions or carrying cameras. 5. Authorities who detained people for jumping PATH commuter train turnstiles last year found a number of them carried welfare identification cards for both New York and New Jersey. 6. Both methods give federal authorities almost open-ended authority to detain people, legal experts said Tuesday. 7. -- French police detained seven people just north of Paris in connection with the terrorism investigation. 8. A federal police spokeswoman said that several people had been detained, but that none had yet been charged. 9. A year ago, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution requesting all members to detain people suspected of genocide and to hold them until investigations are complete. 10. But in most of these cases, the officials said, people were detained only if they were in the United States illegally. |