In June 2017, State Attorney Nitzan said there had been a "significant increase" in social media incitement prosecution, in two key respects: a higher volume of investigations, indictments, and requests for detention; and an increase in the severity of the punishments handed down.
United States Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Keyes, also denied a request for home detention, expressing concern that Mr. Petters might flee.
Obama administration officials privately expressed frustration that Hong Kong allowed Mr. Snowden to board an Aeroflot plane bound for Moscow on Sunday despite the American request for his detention.
Judge Rosenbaum granted the prosecution's request for pretrial detention of Mr. Rothstein, based on its assertion that he was a flight risk.
Instead of casting its request for the detention of Mr. Snowden as urgent business, administration officials now appear to be trying to play down the episode, perhaps recognizing that the United States' ability to force a resolution is limited.
He was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $50,000 after a judge rejected his request for home detention on the grounds that he was suffering from prostate cancer.
The 2014 budget request for immigrant detention operations amounted to some $1.84 billion, or about $5 million per day, according to the National Immigration Forum.
David Nevin, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lawyer, was talking about his request for information about detention sites where his client was held.
"What would the United States prefer?" The Hong Kong government also hit back at American criticisms, saying that the United States had received ample warning that its request for Mr. Snowden's detention was incomplete.
Leung Chun-ying, the chief executive, and his top advisers had been struggling through numerous meetings for days, canceling or postponing other meetings, while trying to decide what to do in response to an American request for Mr. Snowden's detention, even as public opinion in Hong Kong seemed to favor protecting the fugitive.
