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The first thing his lawyers will do now is to fight to get him out of detention and on bail.

The detention and possible punishment of Mr. Abney comes at a time when growing numbers of US military personnel, including Marines, are coming to Canada because of their opposition to the Iraq War. It seems pretty clear that Mr. Abney's sudden difficulties are a response to this. As well, it seems the Marine Corps is trying to prevent further desertions by making an example of Mr. Abney. Besides being vindictive, this is unlikely to be effective. The best way to end the US military's problems is to end the war in Iraq immediately.

Among them is that prisoners are exposed to extreme temperatures, or long detention in isolation.

A more searching system is required to reflect the seriousness of the state holding someone in high-security custody without charge for as long as three months, ... I question whether what is proposed in the bill would be proof to challenge under the Human Rights Act given the length of extended detention envisaged.

The men's captors worked very hard to conceal every aspect of detention but our research assessing information about climate, prayer schedules and flight times suggests that these men may have been held in Eastern Europe or Central Asia.

The information that I've been given is that there is a serious situation of imprisonment, detention and torture.

The logic of what they are saying is that there shouldn't be any limit at all and that we should have quite unlimited detention without charge.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.