NEW YORK (Reuters) – Attorneys general for 19 states and the District of Columbia sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday to block a sweeping new rule to indefinitely detain migrant families seeking to settle in the United States. The lawsuit, f... More »
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The Swedish prosecutor heading an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange filed a request with a local court on Monday for him to be detained in absentia. If granted, the court order would be the firs... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Friday ordered Baring Vostok’s founder Michael Calvey to be kept in custody for 72 hours following his detention on suspicion of fraud, allegations that he denies. The court complied with a request from Calvey’s lawyers an... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Tokyo District Court has rejected a request by lawyers of Carlos Ghosn to end the detention of the ousted Nissan Motor Co Ltd chairman, who has been held since his Nov. 19 arrest on accusations of financial misconduct, Jiji Press reported... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – An Indian man died on Friday at a Japanese immigration detention center in an apparent suicide, the latest death in a system widely criticized over medical standards, monitoring of detainees and mental health care. Immigration is a sensitive ... More »
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish counter-terror police detained 10 people including academic Fikret Baskaya early on Monday in an operation targeting members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Baris Yarkada... More »
A Vietnamese man who died in solitary confinement at a Japanese immigration detention center, raising questions about monitoring of detainees, died from a stroke, a Justice Ministry official said on Monday. More »
A general view of Bukit Jalil immigration detention center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin More than one hundred foreigners died in the past two years in Malaysia’s immigration detention centers from various diseases and unknown... More »
