They were interrogated for hours, some of them still naked or barely dressed.
Two of those on board were interrogated for several hours by police before being released.
Employees were interrogated for minor infractions, Mr. Kurtz said, and several were let go.
He said he and Ms. Shaikh were interrogated for more than seven hours last week by the F.B.I.
Witnesses say that after the assault they were interrogated for hours and stripped of mobile phones and the guns they keep to defend themselves against bandits.
"We were bundled into the back of a Jeep and taken to a military base where we were interrogated for two or three hours.
Both men were interrogated for 30 hours, Mr. Zhang said, adding that while officers had verbally abused and threatened him, they had not beaten him.
Absurdly but terrifyingly, in previous Eurovisions Azerbaijanis were interrogated for voting for Armenia the Caucasian neighbour with which Azerbaijan fought a war in the 1990s and may yet fight another.
The band members claim they were interrogated for seven hours, beginning at 4am; the investigators allegedly revealed the case was being directed "from the highest levels", with a focus not just on Pussy Riot's protest but on "all anti-state activities".
In 1741, when New Yorkers suspected that the city's slaves were plotting to burn the city down, and murder all the free men (at the time, one in five New Yorkers was enslaved), more than a hundred men in the city were arrested and thrown into a dungeon in the basement of City Hall, where they were interrogated, for months.
They were interrogated for two to three months and then executed".
