Detainees

<!-- -->An immigration detention centre, where a group of Uyghurs are likely being detained in Bangkok.Bangkok: Almost a decade after fleeing China, more than 50 Uyghurs are languishing in Thai detention facilities, living in constant…

A British Columbia woman who married an ISIS fighter has been released from the detention camp in northeast Syria where she was held for more than three years, sources said Tuesday. Kimberly Polman was one of two Canadian women taken…

WASHINGTON: The United States has made "a substantial offer" to Russia to release US citizens detained there, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday (Jul 27), adding that he would be pressing his Russian counterpart to…

President Joe Biden on Tuesday opened the way for sanctions against governments that unjustly imprison Americans and ordered more detailed travel warnings after a series of high-profile detentions. Biden signed an executive order billed as…

A New York Times investigation found that Egypt is holding thousands of people in a system of pretrial detention that can be extended indefinitely, stretching Egyptian laws limiting such detention and allowing the government to imprison…

Despite several opposition parties slamming it as "unconstitutional" and "draconian", Parliament on Wednesday passed the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill empowering police to obtain physical and biological samples of…

People with health conditions that place them at high risk from Covid-19 have been denied access to coronavirus vaccine booster shots while in federal immigration detention, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed on…

BAGHDAD — An American-backed militia that has waged four days of deadly battles to dislodge Islamic State fighters from a prison in northeast Syria warned on Sunday that the jihadists were using more than 600 boys detained in the complex as…

The death toll from a Saudi-led coalition airstrike that hit a prison run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels climbed to at least 82 detainees, the rebels and an aid group said Saturday. Internet access in the Arab world’s poorest country…

OTTAWA: Canada's ambassador to China said on Monday (Dec 6) he would soon leave his post after a two-year assignment where he helped secure the freedom of two Canadian detainees despite icy relations between Beijing and Ottawa. Dominic…