Detention ranged from under five days to nearly three years, with a median of four months, despite Home Office guidance that it should be used sparingly and for the shortest period necessary.
Xiao, head of urology at the Xiehe (or Union) Hospital affiliated with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, was sentenced to 5.5 months of detention in connection with the crimes, and Xiao's accomplices received detentions ranging from 1.5 to 5.5 months.
As we explained when we published the document cache, it contained incident reports – short summaries of events in the Nauru detention centre ranging from serious allegations of sexual assault, to observations of a threat of self-harm, to abuse of a child, or more mundane incidents such as a child falling over when playing soccer.
Currently, migrants who cross the border without permission, including those seeking asylum, are funneled into a system of detention centers — ranging from county jails to nonsecure shelters that some have compared to summer camp — depending on the migrants' age and family status.
They point to the vague definition of terrorism in the Anti-Terror Law used to make the arrests, extended pre-trial detention periods ranging from six months to a few years, and lack of credible evidence for the arrests.
And lawyers who recently visited the site told HuffPost they spoke with children whose detention times ranged from a month to five months ― a worrisome fact, given that kids sleep in cramped quarters and have limited access to education and social services.
Records revealed a number who had spent their childhoods in children's homes or had joined to escape detention for crimes ranging from football hooliganism to assault and criminal damage.
Nor does it mean detentions that range wider than any coup might justify.
Detentions have ranged from an hour to more than a week.
"This ruling casts doubt on a host of other INS policies and practices, ranging from detention of juveniles to conditions of detention". INS spokesman Bill Strassburger said the agency would have no comment until its attorneys have reviewed the ruling and determined what the agency must do to comply with it.
