On Tuesday, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued a damning decision against Egypt: the continued imprisonment ...

Niger’s authorities should immediately release civil society activist and human rights defender Moussa Tchangari and stop ...

Bhopal police have expressed regret and assured a thorough investigation into the arbitrary detention of gas victims' leader Balkrishna Namdeo and several social workers during Prime Minister Narendra ...

UN marks one year since Houthi rebel crackdown on humanitarian personnel, urges immediate accountability and compassion ...

By Aaron Ross NAIROBI (Reuters) -Lawyers for Tanzania's jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu filed a complaint on Friday to ...

The underlying issue that enables law enforcement agents and non-state actors to act contrary to the law is that they do not ...

British-Egyptian writer and human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah is being unlawfully detained by the Egyptian government, ...

If the administration can establish arbitrary overseas detention for one group – such as those declared to be Venezuelan gang ...

While most detainees were eventually released, their wrongful apprehension itself points to serious procedural lapses, Saikia ...

Former ambassador to Egypt John Casson is among figures calling on the government to ‘deploy the full range of tools it has ...

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) has found that Egypt is arbitrarily detaining British-Egyptian blogger ...

On the same day, Tiangari was remanded to Filingué prison, 170 kilometers from Niamey, where he remains arbitrarily held in ...