Concerned by the arbitrary detention of asylum-seekers by some States, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for urgent reforms to halt this detrimental practice. Releasing its latest advocacy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Craig and Lindsay Foreman were detained in Iran while travelling the world [PA Media] The son of two Britons imprisoned in Iran ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amsterdam & Partners LLP today announces that following its application to the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD), the Working ...

A Christian man was freed from an Egyptian prison last month after three years of detention over Facebook posts he shared among an online group of converts from Christianity to Islam. Abdulbaqi Saeed ...

Abdullah Ibhais with a member of his family. He has spent years in a Qatari prison. In Qatar, protesting is unlawful, but in August 2019, around 5,000 migrant workers got desperate and took to the ...

This nation was founded on a radical promise: The government, not the accused, must carry the burden of proof when it deprives someone of their liberty. That principle is not abstract; it is the ...

In May, just days after my article in The Diplomat shed light on the perplexing situation surrounding Dil Mohammed, a prominent Rohingya community spokesperson and advocate, he was suddenly imprisoned ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has lodged a protest with China over what it called an “arbitrary detention” of an Indian citizen at the Shanghai airport after the traveler from a northeastern state said she ...

This submission addresses the Ending Indefinite and Arbitrary Immigration Detention Bill 2021 (‘the bill’), which establishes a new legal framework governing immigration detention in Australia.[1] The ...

Craig and Lindsay Foreman were detained in Iran while travelling the world The son of two Britons imprisoned in Iran has met MPs and Lords to call for their detention to be formally recognised as ...