1.   All the detainees were arrested at New York airports trying to enter the country without documents or with false documents.

2.   To date, only two dozen of the detainees have been arrested for anything.

3.   Another eight detainees were arrested in August and are allegedly part of a militant Islamic group with links to Muslim extremists in Indonesia and the Philippines.

4.   Defense lawyer Noyan Ozan said the detainees were arrested on suspicion of leading the demonstration.

5.   The detainees were arrested one year ago under the Internal Security Act, a British colonial-era relic used to battle a communist insurgency decades ago.

6.   The detainees were arrested in a crackdown on reformist journalists and political activists that began in March.

7.   The other eight detainees were arrested in August and are allegedly part of a militant Islamic group with links to Muslim extremists in Indonesia and the Philippines.

8.   The other detainees were arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting breaches of conditions of stay.

9.   The detainees were arrested at demonstrations in recent weeks in Kabylie, where riots broke out last year over the death in police custody of a Berber youth.

10.   The new detainees were arrested as they entered the offices of the Diyarbakir Human Rights Association where a hunger strike was being held in protest over prison conditions.