Usually there'd be a detention period, with limited rights of appeal.

In prison his detention period was repeatedly extended without his being brought to trial.

-- including that the police have only seven days to seek a 42-day detention period from arrest.

At the end of the detention period, the order can be renewed.

The law was recently amended to reduce the detention period to 72 hours.

Only six have shorter detention periods than those provided for in this Directive.

Accordingly, the detention period could be extended to as much as 18 months.

The excessive detention period is one of the most important reasons for my vote.

Since then, his detention period has been repeatedly extended by the Israeli army.

As his detention period exceeded the jail term, he was released by the Court after the trial.