Under this theory, neither the length of the detention, the conditions of their confinement, nor the fact that they have been wrongfully detained makes the slightest difference.
For the past six months, the Guardian has highlighted case after case of Home Office brutality towards the Windrush generation, describing how retirement-age citizens who have lived and paid taxes in the UK for decades have been detained, made homeless, sacked or denied benefits and NHS treatment because they have struggled to prove they are British.
Many of those detained have made allegations of torture, claims which have rarely investigated, it says.
Several employees at Russia's nuclear centre in the city of Sarov have been detained after making "an attempt to use the work computing facilities for personal ends, including for so-called mining", a spokeswoman for the centre, Tatiana Zalesskaya, told Interfax news agency.
A Chinese filmmaker detained while making a documentary on underground Christians was freed after more than five months in police custody, his sister said in an Internet posting.
Mardini recalls hiding in a cornfield at the Serbia-Hungary border for hours, only to be detained, after making it across on foot, at a train station.
Of those, 2,600 were arrested here, with the rest detained before making it out of Turkish waters.
On Tuesday night, 45-year-old Padula was arrested by Montreal police (SPVM) and detained for making what were being described as anti-Muslim threats.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny formally apologises for the Irish state's role in the Magdalene laundries - harsh institutions in which "troubled women" were forcibly detained and made to work without pay between 1922 to 1996.
Returnees could be immediately detained and made to wear electronic bracelets.
