1. In the case of Aoyama, the aim may have been in part to keep him from visiting other detained Aum members as their lawyer.
2. Falun Gong has previously alleged the use of torture and rape at Masanjia to force detained members to renounce the group.
3. It said further details on the status of the detained church members were not available.
4. Last week, the military released dozens of detained party members, including vice chairman Tin Oo.
5. Kola Abiola was the first of the detained family members to be released.
6. Lim and three other detained party members were released early Thursday.
7. Nhek Bunchhay said the defectors had returned five detained members of a negotiating team sent to Anlong Veng in February.
8. On Friday, rioters stormed a prison in the West Bank city of Tulkarem in an effort to free detained members of the militant Islamic group Hamas.
9. Senior NLD members last month set up a self-styled parliament, acting as proxies for the detained members.
10. Six of the nine detained Indonesian Congress members have accused the police of arresting them without formal warrants or sufficient evidence.