21.   A Jordanian group comprising of the family members of Jordanians in Syria, lawyers and political activists says the detainees are held at Palmyra and Maza jails near Damascus.

22.   Administrative detainees are usually held for six months at a time, but the term can be extended repeatedly.

23.   According to the group, the detainees are held at the request of Israel.

24.   All the detainees were held in a single prison cell.

25.   Amnesty said the legal system has been marginalized, and that detainees were being held without charges or trial.

26.   Both countries insist they are not holding any detainees.

27.   But he said more detention centers would have to be built to reduce the use of prisons to hold immigration detainees.

28.   But he said a Yugoslav official in The Hague would not give details of the charges, where the Dutch detainees were being held or their medical condition.

29.   Goering said the group is particularly concerned that immigration detainees are being held with criminals.

30.   Goering said his organization is particularly concerned that immigration detainees are being held with criminals.