25 h. ago Trump is jailing immigrant families again. A mother, father and teen tell of ‘anguish on a daily basis’

Family incarceration has been revived after Biden – and Jade, Jason and Gabriela are speaking out about their distressing treatment in TexasWhen Jade and her family first arrived at the detention facility in Karnes county, Texas, she wasn’t really sure what to think.“I guess I was confused and scared,” said the 13-year-old. Her parents were doing their best to reassure her that everything would be OK, but she knew they were in danger of being deported. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Families of detainees in El Salvador and Venezuela decry Bukele’s prisoner swap offer

Salvadorian president denounced as ‘tyrannical’ as he floats trading 252 prisoners with fellow authoritarian regimeThe families of prisoners being held by the authoritarian governments of El Salvador and Venezuela have condemned President Nayib Bukele’s offer to swap 252 Venezuelan detainees sent to his jails by the Trump administration for the same number of political prisoners incarcerated by Nicolás Maduro’s regime.Nelson Suárez, whose brother was among the Venezuelan immigrants sent from the US to a notorious maximum-security jail in El Salvador last month, said he was desperate for the release of his brother, from whom he has heard nothing in five weeks. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Venezuela accuses El Salvador of human trafficking as prisoners caught in row between authoritarians

Nayib Bukele offered to exchange 252 Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador for 252 prisoners in VenezuelaVenezuela’s chief prosecutor has accused El Salvador’s president of being a “tyrannical” human trafficker after Nayib Bukele offered to exchange the 252 Venezuelan migrants deported to his country’s prisons by Donald Trump for the same number of political prisoners in Venezuela.Bukele made the offer on Sunday night in a message addressed directly to his authoritarian counterpart Nicolás Maduro. “I want to propose a humanitarian agreement that includes the repatriation of 100% of the 252 Venezuelans who were deported, in exchange for the release and delivery of an identical number of the thousands of political prisoners that you hold,” El Salvador’s leader posted. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago El Salvador offers to swap Venezuelan US deportees for political prisoners

Trump administration has been accused of abusing rights of migrants sent to foreign prison without trial

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4 d. ago Salvadoran President Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelan deportees

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela, suggesting he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States his government has kept imprisoned for who he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela

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5 d. ago ‘I just ask God that he’s OK’: family of Venezuelan musician sent to El Salvador prison agonizes over his fate

Arturo Suárez Trejo was caught up in Trump’s immigration crackdown in North Carolina and sent to a notorious Salvadorian prisonIn a recording studio in downtown Santiago, where the dad she has never met once sung, a four-month-old baby girl snuggles in her mother’s arms, noise-cancelling earmuffs shielding her tiny ears from the sound.Nahiara Rubí Suárez Sánchez is equally oblivious to the plight of her father, a Venezuelan musician who is thought to be languishing in a maximum-security prison thousands of miles away in El Salvador after being swept up in Donald Trump’s anti-migrant crusade. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Mass prisoner swap brings emotional homecoming for hundreds of Ukrainian troops

Dozens of released Ukrainian prisoners of war embraced loved ones in emotional reunions after they were returned from Russian captivity.

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1 week ago Ukraine war briefing: Captive Chinese soldiers appear before the press in Kyiv

Republicans increase pressure on Trump after 35 killed in Sumy, with US president calling for ‘death and destruction to stop’. What we know on day 1,147Ukraine held a press conference with Chinese soldiers captured on the frontline after Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of recruiting fighters from China using social media. The men were led into a press centre handcuffed and flanked by armed Ukrainian guards and it was unclear if they were speaking of their own volition. The pair told journalists they hoped to be part of a prisoner swap.Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, has accused Moscow of dragging Beijing into its invasion, saying that several hundred Chinese nationals were fighting at the frontline. The Kremlin has denied it claim while Beijing has warned parties to the conflict against making “irresponsible remarks”.Zelenskyy accused Vladimir Putin of remaining focused on continuing the war, saying Russia had openly refused to engage in ceasefire talks. “There is only one re...

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2 w. ago Moment US ballerina Ksenia Karelina embraces fiancé as she returns from Russian jail

A US ballerina jailed for 12 years in Russia after donating $51 to a charity supporting Ukraine reunited with her fiancé in an emotional embrace as she landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday, 10 April.

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2 w. ago US ballerina Ksenia Karelina, who donated $51 to Ukraine, freed from Russian jail in prisoner swap

Russian President Vladimir Putin pardons ballerina jailed after donating money to support Ukraine

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2 w. ago Trump reveals UFC chief Dana White pushed for release of ballerina in Russian prisoner swap

President Donald Trump has revealed that UFC CEO Dana White petitioned for the release of ballerina Ksenia Karelina who was facing treason charges in Moscow.

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2 w. ago A Los Angeles woman arrested in Russia has been freed in a prisoner swap. Here's what we know

Russia has freed a Russian American convicted of treason in exchange for a Russian German man jailed on smuggling charges in the U.S. Thursday’s prisoner swap comes as the two countries work to repair ties

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2 w. ago Russian ballerina freed in prisoner swap deal with US after being jailed by Putin

A ballerina jailed by Vladimir Putin for making a donation to a Ukrainian charity has been freed as part of a prisoner swap between the US and Russia, officials have confirmed.

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2 w. ago US ballerina Ksenia Karelina is freed from Russian jail hell in prisoner swap months after she was sentenced to 12 years in penal colony for high treason

Russia has today released American ballerina Ksenia Karelina from her jail hell in an early morning prisoner swap between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's respective intelligence agencies

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3 w. ago Packed off to hell hole prison for Christian tattoos: Gay makeup artist is deported to El Salvador by Trump administration after border agents said his ink looked like a Venezuelan gang symbol

Andry Jose Hernandez Romero, 31, was detained at the Mexico-US border last year when he requested entry to attend a pre-arranged asylum hearing in San Diego, California

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