1.   About a dozen people remain in detention without trial.

2.   Amnesty International opposes the detention without trial of all political detainees, including administrative detention.

3.   At least one political detainee, Corporal Thomas Benefo, remains in detention without charge or trial.

4.   Cases of detention without trial were common in the last century.

5.   Detention without trial threatens our civil liberties.

6.   The new government banned books, seized passports, expelled foreigners, and legalized detention without trial.

7.   The secretary of state for Northern Ireland appeared on television to read a special apologia for detention without trial.

8.   And lawyers fear that many may be in detention without the knowledge of a lawyer or their embassy.

9.   A Justice Department spokesman said the current plan was to keep Al Mujahir in military detention without charging him.

10.   Egyptian law lets the president control the parliament, appoint local governors, and keep the country under sweeping emergency powers allowing detention without trials.