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The government's brief "is one with the administration's position that it can detain its captives in the war on terror indefinitely.

"It can detain people in Australia.

The government contends it can detain people until the hostilities are over -- whenever that is -- without charging them or giving them access to lawyers.

China can release a political prisoner or two before a presidential summit, as it has many times, or it can detain and harass some dissidents, as it did this week.

Still, it is hard not to think about my time at Guantánamo and to wonder how it is possible that a democratic government can detain people in intolerable conditions and without a fair trial.

The military can detain anyone, including American citizens, it deems a threat to the country.

However, the House of Commons can detain an offender only during its session, whereas the House of Lords can detain an offender for any fixed period, even beyond adjournment.

Similarly, it may be necessary to set clear legal guidelines for when the government can detain enemy combatants, and how far C.I.A. agents can go when interrogating terror suspects.

"This trial is very, very important, not for myself, but for the country," he said, because while the government can detain anybody under the Sedition Act, when he arrives in court it needs to be "legally justified".

Mexican presidential candidate in 2012 and former head of Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador said: "They can detain El Chapo, but they are not capable, they are useless, when it comes to finding 43 missing Ayotzinapa students.

In 2000, it ruled that if the police see someone running from them in a high-crime neighborhood, they can detain him, even if they have no reason to suspect him of a crime.