The remand or detention of a suspect is the process of keeping a person who has been arrested in custody, normally in a remand prison.

Okinawan authorities deny that they treated Mr. Fearr's death lightly, and point to their arrest and brief detention of a suspect, Riki Matsuyama.

A magistrate's court in Jerusalem has in early 2009 handed down a verdict convicting two private security officers of assault following a detention of a suspect who assaulted one of them.

A law allowing anyone to arrest a suspect who they witnessed carrying out a felony was repealed in 1996 and a new law now allows the detention of a suspect by another person under certain conditions.

Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about the detention of a suspect in a bombing that killed 19 Americans in Saudi Arabia last June misstated the date of the arrest in some editions.