21.   Torture of suspects, indefinite detention without due process and other harsh methods are banned by U.S. laws that govern the behavior of American intelligence agents.

22.   Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, a former deputy prime minister and finance minister, was placed under indefinite detention Monday as a security risk, according to federal police.

23.   Parliament has extended by another five years a law that allows arrest and indefinite detention of drug offenders without trial.

24.   President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the former vice president who replaced Estrada after helping to topple him, had indicated she would accept his indefinite detention at the hospital.

25.   A judge questioned Rafael Vera for nearly five hours Thursday night before ordering his indefinite detention.

26.   A presidential order authorizing indefinite detentions without due process of law for people suspected of belonging to al-Qaida applies only to non-American citizens, the petition said.

27.   All are being held under the Internal Security Act, which allows indefinite detention without trial.

28.   All of the suspects were being held under laws in Singapore and Malaysia which allow indefinite detention without trial.

29.   Although her progress at Siu Lam psychiatric centre will be reviewed annually, statistics show inmates on indefinite detention are unlikely to be let out.

30.   An officer later told him that he had been arrested under the Internal Security Act, which allows indefinite detention without trial.