41. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh declined to specify the grounds for the detention order. 42. He had been held under an arrest warrant, equivalent to a five-day detention order, and the company could not appeal until Wednesday. 43. He said Banda was trying to fool Malawians because he personally signed thousands of detention orders and confiscated property worth millions belonging to both locals and foreigners. 44. He was transfered to Karachi from a police guest house near Islamabad, after the Punjab provincial government withdrew his detention orders. 45. In June, four of them were released, while the other six were served with a two-year detention order. 46. According to judge Adele Rando, who signed the detention orders, the men face charges of subversion and violating weapons legislation. 47. Amnesty had written to the king urging him to exercise his powers to lift the detention orders. 48. Both were released Thursday afternoon after the Lahore High Court quashed their detention orders. 49. Bhutto, in the petition filed on her behalf by lawyer Talib Rizvi, asked the court to declare the detention order illegal. 50. Both were released Thursday afternoon after the Lahore High Court declared their detention orders illegal. |
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