Freed Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has filed a complaint seeking charges against two officials, accusing them of torturing him during his secret detention, according to documents seen by Agence France-Presse.
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Britain on Monday announced economic sanctions against individuals and organizations from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and North Korea under new U.K. powers to punish human rights offenders.
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Iranian state television has broadcast the coerced confessions of at least 355 people over the past decade as a means to suppress dissent and frighten activists in the Islamic Republic on behalf of security services, according to a report released Thursday.
Read moreGerman Foreign Minister Heiko Maas traveled to Jerusalem on Wednesday to voice European “concern” over Israel’s annexation plans for the occupied West Bank.
Read moreThe Santa Fe Dreamers Project sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection in a federal FOIA complaint seeking information on the agency’s “targeting of human rights defenders [including attorneys] by border enforcement agencies.”
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Two former Syrian intelligence officers went on trial in Germany on Thursday accused of crimes against humanity in the first court case worldwide over state-sponsored torture by Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
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Six years ago Wassim Mukdad fled Syria, demoralized and fearing for his life as the country spiraled ever deeper into all-out war.
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Elsy was on the phone in an immigration detention center when guards showed up with face masks and forms to sign.
Read moreKids in Need of Defense sued U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in federal court for refusing to release its “Asylum Eligibility and Procedural Modifications” of 2019.
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent wouldn’t let Jackeline Reyes explain why she and her 15-year-old daughter need political asylum, blaming the coronavirus. That confrontation in Texas came just days after the Trump administration quietly shut down the nation’s asylum system for the first time in decades in the name of public health.
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A German rescue ship was seeking a safe port on Tuesday after it saved 150 refugees from small boats in distress off the Libyan coast.
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For years, Catholic-led, U-S.-based nonprofits have been at the forefront of efforts to support asylum-seekers along the Mexican border. Tough new border policies, coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic, have drastically changed their work, much of which now must take place in Mexico.
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European Union member states must make sure countries outside the bloc that ask to extradite someone will not torture or kill that person, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has told security forces they should shoot dead anyone causing “trouble” in areas locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic violated European Union regulations by refusing to take in their share of refugees, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday.
Read moreA longtime naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia sued Attorney General William Barr, et al., claiming Immigration and Customs Enforcement imprisoned him for nearly a year despite knowing he is a citizen and kept him in jail after an immigration judge terminated his deportation proceeding.
Read moreIn a sealed complaint, a federal class action claims the Department of Homeland Security and its creatures’ “no release” policy for civil immigration arrests violates the law that such detentions be based on individual assessments.
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Austria’s right-wing Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Tuesday slammed Turkey for trying to “blackmail” the EU by opening its borders to thousands of refugees seeking to flee to Europe.
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Investigators for the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council said on Monday that they had found evidence of war crimes in Syria committed by nearly all sides in the conflict during the second half of last year and into January.
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A new refugee crisis is hitting Europe as fighting intensifies between Turkey and Syria and tens of thousands of people amass at Greece’s heavily militarized border with Turkey seeking entry to the European Union, leading to fierce border clashes.
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