1.   And the long detentions of innocent persons based on little or no evidence should be stopped.

2.   A jury found that the arrest was legal but the long detention was not.

3.   For example, the United Nations will scrap Yugoslav laws that allow long detentions for interrogation.

4.   In some instances, even the Chinese police have struggled to define the crimes, resulting in long detentions without clear charges or a trial.

5.   The younger McAliksey suffering from depression during her long detention, during which she gave birth to a child.

6.   A parliamentary human rights committee has criticized long detentions of up to five years at the Talha Deportation Center, sometimes without court orders for deportation.

7.   A Kuwaiti parliamentary committee has criticized what it described as unnecessarily long detentions at a deportation center, Al-Anba daily reported Sunday.

8.   Interior Ministry officials said the severity of the charges justified the long detentions.

9.   On Friday, an airline official who also had been critical of the long detentions applauded the release announcement.

10.   Such long detentions are illegal, but not unusual in China.