1.   But Congress has limited the period for such detention to seven days.

2.   Punishments range from detentions to two-year expulsions.

3.   The bill does expand the current limit of two days of detention to seven days, though under some circumstances that could be extended by six-month periods.

4.   Chinese law limits criminal detentions to no more than six months pending charges.

5.   Downer demanded the immediate release of Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace, likening their detention to that of three American prisoners of war held by Serbian forces.

6.   He said the U.S. embassy in Belgrade was protesting the detentions directly to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic as a violation of the peace accord that ended the fighting.

7.   Krasheninnikov said he also wants to limit pre-trial detention to one year to reduce the prison population, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

8.   Media reports linked the raids and detentions to the death of Bernard Weinstein, a former Dutroux associate.

9.   Monh Saphan said FUNCINPEC will soon submit a proposal that would shorten the maximum length of detention to two or three years.

10.   Police sources would not solidly link the detentions to the match.