Under current law, such suspects can be held without charge for 14 days.

Thus a suspect can be held for 18 days before seeing a judge and, in most cases, a lawyer.

We do not even know how many suspects are being held under these categories.

In some cases, a suspect may be held without being able to consult a lawyer for more than a few minutes at a time.

A major problem, however, is that suspects are often held before trial for very long periods.

He said that if every suspect were held without bail, "there wouldn't be enough room in the entire state to hold them."

Under Israel's military occupation laws, a suspect can be held for up to 96 hours before seeing a judge.

The suspects were being held in another location, and officials said it was not yet known how they would be handled.

The act gave the police the power to hold suspects in detention for 90 days without charging them.

Under Japanese law, suspects may be held for up to 21 days before being formally charged.