1.   Barbie commanded his officers to transport the captives to deportation centers.

2.   A Kuwaiti parliamentary committee has criticized what it described as unnecessarily long detentions at a deportation center, Al-Anba daily reported Sunday.

3.   Five inmates at a deportation center tried to kill themselves because they could see no end to their detention, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday.

4.   Inmates at a deportation center have ended a hunger strike after the government promised to release many of them, a parliament deputy said Sunday.

5.   Kuwait has temporarily released hundreds of detainees from a controversial deportation center and is hoping to close the facility in two weeks, Al-Watan daily reported Monday.

6.   The children were detained by Saudi authorities for begging in the Muslim holy city of Mecca and are currently in a deportation center in this Red Sea port city.

7.   The government said Monday it will close a deportation center where hundreds of stateless people, Palestinians and Iraqis have been held.

8.   They apparently have no money for the fines and thus were held in the deportation center.

9.   Two dozen inmates held at a deportation center have gone on a hunger strike and several have deliberately injured themselves, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.