Mr. Lumumba, the son of Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, was recently jailed for several days by the government, which routinely detains political opponents.

Detention:Local security forces, especially traffic police, routinely detain foreigners to solicit bribes.

Visa Overstays: Malaysian immigration authorities routinely detain foreigners who overstay their social visit passes (visas).

Two advocacy groups for refugees said on Wednesday that the Bush administration routinely detained immigrant families in prisonlike housing that separated young children from their parents and sometimes provided inadequate medical care, food and educational opportunities, despite calls from Congress to house such families in "nonpenal, homelike environments."

When the Esmor detention facility opened in 1994, the immigration service used it to routinely detain asylum seekers who tried to enter the country illegally through Kennedy and Newark airports.

In Spain, Amnesty International found, officers routinely detain black people and members of other ethnic minorities on suspicion of drug dealing or of not carrying the identity documents that are obligatory in Spain.

Confucian Ideal Vs. Popular Culture Before June 1987, intelligence agents and police officers routinely detained, interrogated and tortured people like Kim Keun Tae, an intellectual active in the underground labor movement.

Iraq, he added, "is following the poor example of its neighbors who routinely detain, criminally prosecute or imprison reporters for their work."

Cypriot customs authorities routinely detain anyone arriving in Cyprus or crossing the buffer zone found to be in possession of documents relating to property purchases in the area administered by Turkish Cypriots.