The issue of mandatory and indefinite detention has been challenged in many courts.

Even the immigration service has expressed some doubts about the law on mandatory detention.

They would face mandatory detention and deportation under already negligible protections of due process.

Partly because the issue of refugees and mandatory detention had been well established as political issues long before the protests started.

The system of mandatory detention has been the subject of controversy.

Thus, crimes that did not assign jail time to the individual may subject them to mandatory detention.

He has recently been active on the issue of refugees' mandatory detention in Australia.

It is criticized in general for allowing mandatory detention of illegal aliens on inadequate grounds.

Such mandatory detention is expensive and abusive - especially for people who were imprisoned in their home countries.

In striking down the mandatory detention, a federal appeals court said the plaintiff's treatment was disproportionate to his crime.