The embarrassment over the news coverage of the detentions prompted the administration to quickly change course last Thursday and release some 40 Haitian detainees being held in South Florida as immigrant and refugee advocates called out the administration.
The fruits of that fight could be seen in how Vargas was described in the press coverage of his detention.
Under the Trump administration, which has made anti-immigration the cornerstone of its work, coverage of immigration detention has significantly increased.
Legislation enacted by Mansour, an interim president installed by Sisi after Morsi's removal, and Sisi himself, a former army chief elected to succeed Mansour, include laws that ban protest, expand the jurisdiction of military courts, remove several limits on pre-trial detention, and restrict media coverage of the armed forces without prior approval.
The authors believe that this work is a "substantial undercount" (Paltrow & Flavin, 2013: 304), noting that the lack of searchable databases of cases, the confidentiality of family and juvenile court proceedings and civil commitment proceedings, the lack of media coverage of hospital detentions and compelled treatment, and lack of access to court records from Native American tribal courts.
In 2014, Guardian Australia's coverage of the "inherently toxic environment" of Manus Island asylum seeker detention centres maintained a high profile.
This morning, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright visited Radio Liberty, the United States-financed broadcaster whose blunt coverage of the war in Chechnya last winter led to the Russians' detention of a top reporter, Andrei Babitsky.
News of the detention was leaked in advance to TV Globo, Brazil's dominant television network, which broadcast rolling coverage of the event.
The school doubled the duration of the detention.
Gen. Rick Baccus, commander of the detention mission.
