The Lib Dems have suggested holding suspects on lesser offences while investigating possible terrorism, as an alternative to extending detentionwithouttrial.
For the Commission, Ms Damanaki called on the Egyptian authorities to lift emergency law - under which detentionwithouttrial is allowed - as soon as possible.
Disagreements over the detention facility, which also included whether Afghans can be held withouttrial, had thrown a pall over the ongoing negotiations for a bilateral security agreement that would govern the presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after 2014.