41.   His lawyers have since sought his release, saying his continued detention was unlawful.

42.   In past months, the Hong Kong authorities have released several hundred Vietnamese migrants after the Privy Council in London declared their continued detention would be unlawful.

43.   Israel on the other hand uses security arguments for justifying the continued detention of Palestinian militants, many jailed for anti-Israeli violence.

44.   A French judge was to rule Tuesday on whether or not to order the continued detention of an exiled Rwandan priest charged with genocide, judicial sources said.

45.   Burns also cited a lack of progress in Nigeria on freedom of expression, citing the continued detention of members of the opposition and the harassment of journalists.

46.   But the released teachers remained under threat of continued detention if the meeting was not successful as police kept their belongings and identity cards, Palestinian sources said.

47.   But the Bureau of Immigration was forced to release four Pakistani suspects last Thursday after the police failed to provide evidence to justify their continued detention.

48.   Demonstrators protested outside the headquarters of the UN Protection Force in Sarajevo Monday over the continued detention by Serbs of four civilians seized last week.

49.   Defence lawyers lost a habeas corpus application in which they claimed that the continued detention of their clients was unconstitutional and challenged the state to release them.

50.   The UN police chief protested strongly over the continued detention of a senior Moslem policeman arrested by the Croat authorities in Mostar, a UN official said Saturday.