Of nearly 20 American military and intelligence officials who were interviewed about Mr. Begg, none thought he had been wrongly detained.

In other words, even those who who were wrongly detained, and originally harbored no ill-will toward the US, might join the terrorists when released.

Relatives said their loved ones had been wrongly detained.

"At the end they told me, 'You were wrongly detained,' " he said in an interview in Nauzad, near his home in southern Afghanistan.

The secretary skirted questions about whether the determination meant that the man had been wrongly detained.

The Prison was tenanted by those who suffered in the cause of liberty and many of its captives were wrongly detained and brutally treated.

Another son, Antonio who had dissociated from the family business early on, was wrongly detained years for a murder committed by his brother Ciro.

Rizwaan Sabir was paid £20,000 in damages by police after he was wrongly detained in 2008.

Someone who is wrongly detained or arrested may end up with his or her DNA on file.

The Rights of Detainees The most basic complaint of those released was that they had been wrongly detained in the first place.