This week a court extended for a further month their detention without charge.
The justice secretary explained the bill would enshrine the right to legal advice before questioning in stature, increase the time for detention without charge from six hours to 12 hours and up to 24 hrs in the most serious circumstances with appropriate safeguards.
MPs discussed the issue of pre-charge detention which the coalition has committed to cutting to 14 days.
Crossbencher Lord Dear, who led Lords moves in 2008 to veto 42-day pre-charge detention, said the current DPP's views should have "considerable weight".
If you say we are going to preserve the liberties of this country and the case for extending pre-charge detention which used to be forty eight hours remember - long time ago.
He compared the idea with measures introduced by the Labour government - such as longer periods of pre-charge detention - which he said were justified at the time on security grounds but had proved to be damaging.
Lady Manningham-Buller, a leading critic of the previous government's plans to extend pre-charge detention, said it was "completely untrue" that past laws had always been in response to requests by the security and intelligence services or the police.
Pusic, who was formerly in charge of detention facilities and prisoner exchanges for the Croatian Defense Council, was found guilty on 18 counts and given 10 years in prison.
But he also took charge of the detention of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Gaza-based militants in a cross-border raid in 2006.
The international prosecutor, Robert Petit, says he has enough evidence to charge more suspects than the five in detention.
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.
Tokyo was expected to decide whether to charge the captain by September 29, the date the most-recent detention order was to expire.
They said he pleaded guilty to the charge after being warned by the judge in the case he could face five years' detention if found guilty in a trial.
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