His lawyer successfully argued that he had spent the maximum time in prison under temporary detention.

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Mr Mousa was held at a temporary detention centre with the other civilians, under suspicion of being an insurgent.

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After preliminary investigations, the court judge issued an order for the temporary detention of Hofer and Vahideh Q, and the two were imprisoned.

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Tsarnaev would be represented by counsel who could seek a writ of habeas corpus from the federal courts if what I envision as a reasonably brief period of temporary detention turned into something abusive.

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