Last year, 3,041 United States citizens were arrested abroad.

Every year, several hundred Americans are arrested abroad on drug charges.

The eighth suspect was arrested abroad on 2 July 2007, but police refused to reveal details of the country in which the arrest took place.

One in seven Britons arrested abroad are held over drug allegations, according to Foreign Office statistics released today.

A familiar image, but fewer Britons were arrested abroad last year, says the Foreign Office.

Federal agents routinely exchange information with foreign police and seek to bring criminals arrested abroad to the United States for trial.

Of the 2,617 Americans reported arrested abroad last year, nearly a third were held on narcotics charges.

This page explains what assistance we can offer British nationals arrested or imprisoned abroad including a contact number and a list of support organisations.

The program was created in the mid-1980's as a way for the C.I.A. to transfer crime suspects arrested abroad to their home countries.

It is a right that the United States vigorously asserts on behalf of American citizens arrested abroad.