17 h. ago A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country

A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son’s birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges

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4 d. ago US college students detained in Denmark after alleged Uber driver dispute

Two students traveling on spring break were arrested and charged with assault in Copenhagen, police sayTwo American college students traveling for spring break were arrested in Copenhagen, charged with assault, and held in a Danish prison for two weeks following an alleged dispute with an Uber driver, Danish police said.The family of Owen Ray, a 19-year-old studying at Miami University in Ohio, said he and an unnamed friend have been forced to forfeit their passports and remain in the country. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Surrey Police's response in FULL as mum arrested after confiscating daughters' iPads

Surrey Police faced criticism when Amanda Brown, 50, was arrested on suspicion of theft and taken to Staines Police Station - only for the simple narrative to unravel

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7 d. ago Mother ‘held in police cell for seven hours after confiscating daughters’ iPads’

Vanessa Brown said she had suffered sleepless nights as a result of the incident on March 26.

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7 d. ago UK woman says she was arrested after confiscating her daughters’ iPads

Vanessa Brown called police response in Cobham, Surrey, ‘a complete overreaction’ that left her ‘catatonic’A history teacher has said she was arrested and blocked from seeing her daughters after she confiscated their iPads.Vanessa Brown, 50, described her “unspeakable devastation and trauma” after spending seven-and-a-half hours in a cell on 26 March after a claim that she had stolen two iPads. She was later released with bail conditions that barred her from speaking to anyone connected to the investigation – including her children – until the case was dropped.Brown told LBC she had taken the iPads to encourage her daughters to focus on their schoolwork. Surrey police tracked the devices to Brown’s mother’s house in Cobham, Surrey, and later accepted the devices belonged to her children and she was “entitled” to confiscate them. “I find it quite traumatic even talking about this now,” Brown said. “At no point did [the officers] think to themselves, ‘Oh, this is a little bit of an ov...

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7 d. ago Mum spends seven hours in police cell after 'confiscating her daughters' iPads'

Vanessa Brown, a 50-year-old mother of two, says she was arrested and taken to a police station after being accused of stealing her children's iPads.

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7 d. ago Mum held in police cell for seven hours for 'confiscating her daughters' iPads'

Mum-of-two Vanessa Brown, 50, has told how she was arrested and taken to Staines police station in Surrey after being accused of stealing her own children's iPads

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7 d. ago Mum from Surrey arrested and held in cell for seven hours after confiscating kids’ iPads

Vanessa Brown was accused of stealing the devices after taking them away to encourage her children to focus on schoolwork

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1 week ago Brit pensioners locked up in Taliban jail chained to 'killers, rapists and man possessed by demon'

Peter Reynolds, 79, and partner Barbie, 76, were arrested near their home in Afghanistan in February and held without charge, as they suffer hell conditions with hardened prisoners

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2 w. ago Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissentThe faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.Last week, six young women were having tea and biscuits in the Quaker meeting house in Westminster. Twenty police officers forced open the door and arrested them on conspiracy charges. Had the police discovered a plot to blow up parliament or to poison the water supply? No. It was an openly advertised, routine meeting of a protest group called Youth Demand, discussing climate breakdown and the assault on Gaza.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistThe Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, was published in paperb...

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2 w. ago There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’ | Mehdi Hasan

It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’On 29 January, the second Trump administration held its first White House press briefing. “Of the 3,500 arrests Ice has made so far since President Trump came back into office, can you just tell us the numbers?” asked a reporter in the front row. “How many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally?”“All of them,” responded the new White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, making her debut in the briefing room, “because they illegally broke our nation’s laws, and, therefore, they are criminals, as far as this administration goes.” She continued: “I know the last administration didn’t see it that way, so it’s a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal. But that’s exactly what they are.”Mehdi Hasan is a broadcaster and author, and a former host on MSNBC. He is also a Guardian US...

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2 w. ago Revealed: The school WhatsApp messages that led to six police officers raiding 'reasonable' couple's home before arresting them and holding them in a cell for 11 hours

Friends of a couple arrested over their comments made in a school WhatsApp group have spoken of their 'shock and anger' over the incident.

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2 w. ago Quakers condemn Met Police over ‘aggressive’ arrests at ‘shut down London’ protest meeting

More than 30 officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held in Westminster

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2 w. ago Met Police arrest six activists at Quaker meeting house over ‘shut down London’ plot

More than 30 officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held in Westminster

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2 w. ago Dozens of police officers batter down door of pacifist Quaker meeting house to arrest activists 'discussing climate change and Gaza'

More than 30 police officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held at the Westminster Meeting House at around 7.30pm on Thursday, March 27, according to Youth Demand.

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4 w. ago British Royal Navy sailor, 22, is jailed in Bahrain after 'stepping in to break up a fight'

Owen Haggerty, 22, was arrested on assault charges in Bahrain last month and was being held in a detention centre. He was convicted on Wednesday and jailed for three months.

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