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 ...

After years of negotiations with Iran over successive US administrations, five American citizens unjustly detained by Iran are finally free. The release of the US citizens follows a series of similar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Tunisian government has made arbitrary detention a central instrument of state policy, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report published Wednesday, alleging a systematic effort to quash dissent ...

A joint report released Wednesday by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) revealed a pattern of arbitrary detention in South Sudan ...

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 ...

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 ...