Canberra has courted controversy at home by stationing a detention centre for asylum-seekers on the island - part of its policy of keeping refugees at arm's length.
In 1998, the Clinton administration brought obstruction of justice charges against Dr. Battalino based on her having given false testimony about a sexual relationship during a civil case. 99 Dr. Battalino pled guilty to the charge and is currently serving a sentence of six months home detention.
Throughout Thursday, U.S. officials insisted Mr. Chen had had a "change of heart" and diplomatic officials scrambled to ascertain what he really wanted, meeting with him and his wife at a Beijing hospital where he is undergoing treatment for injuries sustained during a risky escape from his home detention.
The court may be trying to issue a verdict before her latest round of home detention expires May 27, according to Win.
Unfortunately, I could not bring my camera within the facility walls to capture the heartbreaking site of the normal law-abiding immigrants who were forced into detention despite having no criminal record and a family at home.
Dutschke, 41, was arrested Saturday by FBI agents at his home in Tupelo, and is being held without bond pending a preliminary and detention hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Miss.
Nyan Win, the spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, said the court might be speeding up the hearings so it can issue a verdict within seven days -- before Suu Kyi's latest round of home detention expires.
Mexicans crossing the border illegally can be sent home immediately in most cases, but because of a shortage of space at detention centers, Mr. Bush said, four of five non-Mexicans detained on the border are given a court date and let go, and most never show up for their hearing.
The Home Office said the higher cost per inmate of detention centres was due to a range of factors including the fact they were much smaller than prisons and were close to airports, making land prices and rents higher.
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The Home Office has confirmed that a further 107 failed asylum seekers of various nationalities at the Oxfordshire detention centre are now refusing food "as a mark of respect for the dead man".
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The brief detention of Emad Burnat, a West Bank farmer who spent five years making his "5 Broken Cameras" home video in his village of Bil'in, was quickly criticized by fellow documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whom Burnat had contacted for help while being questioned at Los Angeles International Airport.
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