21.   The worst allegations of torture have come from the Jneid Prison in Nablus, where the five defendants were held.

22.   Under a recently amended penal law, a defendant cannot be held in any kind of detention for more than two years without trial.

23.   All the defendants are being held in jail.

24.   Defence lawyers successfully argued that the article about Belmarsh Prison, where the defendants are now held, had made it impossible for them to receive a fair trial.

25.   During the court hearings, defendants will be held in The Hague, inside cells built to UN standards.

26.   The defendants have been held without bail since January and on Wednesday a court here refused to release them.

27.   The five defendants are being held at a military camp in Port-Harcourt.

28.   The prison holds defendants in criminal cases under trial, and convicts awaiting transfer to the National Penitentiary located south of Manila.