4 h. ago Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse

Civil rights coalition calls for immediate closure of camp, where more than 2,700 detainees are being heldOfficers at the large immigration detention camp located at the Fort Bliss army base in Texas are allegedly mistreating detainees, with accusations including beatings, sexual abuse and clandestine deportations of non-Mexican nationals into Mexico, according to a coalition of local and national US civil rights organizations.In a 19-page letter, addressed to senior government officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and Fort Bliss military command, the coalition accuses officers at the immigration detention facility on the base, called Camp East Montana, of being “in violation of agency policies and standards, as well as statutory and constitutional protections”. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago About 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admits

Legal advocates concerned over the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody are sounding the alarm before the federal court

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22 h. ago Australia deporting refugee to Nauru may cause his ‘imminent’ and ‘preventable’ death, court hears

Legal team of man who was part of cohort of non-citizens freed after high court decision argues Nauru’s medical facilities are ‘insufficient’ to treat his severe asthmaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLawyers for an Iranian refugee Australia wants to deport to Nauru say there is a “real risk he will die” there, setting the stage for a showdown against the federal government’s $2.5bn NZYQ deal.The case surrounding the Iranian refugee, known as TXCM, who was granted a 30-year visa for Nauru in February and subsequently placed back into immigration detention after being freed by the 2023 high court ruling, was heard in the high court on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Judge orders the release of an immigrant with ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt

A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from immigrant detention while she fights potential deportation

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4 d. ago Home Office reopens immigration detention centre near Oxford in bid to house up to 400 asylum seekers

The Home Office decided to reopen Campsfield immigration detention facility as part of plans to increase the capacity for asylum seekers and foreign offenders while they wait to be deported.

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6 d. ago ‘Fifa cannot be silent’: human rights groups speak out over 2026 World Cup concerns

Sport and Rights Alliance has made seven requests for actionAmnesty International USA also worried by US government’s roleFifa risks becoming “a public relations tool of an increasingly authoritarian US government,” human rights organisations have warned as they call on football’s international governing body to do more to protect the rights of residents and supporters at next summer’s World Cup.With concerns rising over the possibility of local communities and travelling fans being subjected to immigration raids or arbitrary detention during the tournament, the Sport and Rights Alliance has made seven requests for action from Fifa before Friday’s World Cup draw in Washington. The key demand is that Fifa “commit to ensuring effective protections against racial profiling, arbitrary detention, and unlawful immigration enforcement during the tournament”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Top astronaut removed from NASA mission after SpaceX 'classified' photos breach

An astronaut is believed to have been banished from the US after he was accused of smuggling information out of a secure SpaceX facility.

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7 d. ago ‘He asked me what I’d done sexually with a woman’: how Joy Gharoro

The rising star has made her debut film, Dreamers, a semi-autobiographical love story set in an immigration detention centre. She talks about fleeing persecution in Nigeria – and what she learned from French new waveJoy Gharoro-Akpojotor had a little wobble when she stepped on to the stage after the screening of her debut feature, Dreamers, at the London film festival. The Nigerian-British director’s film is a love story set in an immigration detention centre. It had already premiered in Berlin earlier this year. But showing her semi-autobiographical film to a home crowd in London felt exposing. “I suddenly had this feeling: Oh my God, everyone can see me. Everyone knows everything about me.” She laughs.Gharoro-Akpojotor has built a reputation as a rising star producer. Her company Joi Productions makes films telling black, female and gay stories. (“All of the above, sometimes individually.”) Her credits include Rapman’s Blue Story and Aml Ameen’s romcom Boxing Day, and she is curre...

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9 d. ago Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn

Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harmsThe federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to “abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures – at the same time as the government pushes aggressive immigration enforcement operations.Border Patrol agents in Arizona forcibly removed a detained man from a cell, handcuffed him and then injected him with ketamine to sedate him in 2023, according to a CRCL document confirming the watchdog’s investigation into the allegation. A Guardian reporter had saved that document just weeks before it was scrubbed from the DHS’s website.Guards at a priv...

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1 week ago Turning Point USA staffer accused of sexually harassing male employee and kidnapping his daughter

Jeannette Garcia is also accused of misleading sheriff’s deputies to facilitate the alleged kidnapping

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1 week ago Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report

Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimesIsrael has “a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture”, according to a new UN report covering the past two years, which also raised concerns about the impunity of Israeli security forces for war crimes.The UN committee on torture expressed “deep concern over allegations of repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, waterboarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Vulnerable migrants routinely handcuffed and detained for hours, damning report finds

One migrant who had been returned to France under the UK’s flagship deal says he was screaming in pain as officers banged his head against a wall while trying to restrain him

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2 w. ago Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas

Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack

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2 w. ago US men indicted for alleged coup plot to kill and rape people on Haitian island

Texans planned to utilize unhoused US people to take over Gonâve and fulfill ‘rape fantasies’, justice department saysThe Department of Justice has alleged that two Texas men plotted a murderous coup d’etat on the island of Gonâve, the largest in Haiti, “for the purpose of carrying out their rape fantasies”.The two men, 21-year-old Gavin Rivers Weisenburg and 20-year-old Tanner Christopher Thomas, have been accused of plotting to take the island by force, utilizing the homeless population of Washington DC, then killing all the men on the island and “using the women and children as sex slaves”, according to an announcement by the US attorney’s office of the eastern district of Texas on Thursday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Judge pushes for resolution in lawsuit over legal access at 'Alligator Alcatraz'

A federal judge in Florida is pushing for a resolution in a lawsuit over detainees' access to attorneys at an immigration detention center in the Everglades

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2 w. ago 'Beast of Birkenhead' says cops beat out confession before he was wrongly jailed

Peter Sullivan was wrongly convicted over the brutal murder of Diane Sindall, in 1986, after she was attacked and beaten to death during a frenzied sexual attack

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3 w. ago Judge overseeing US Rep. McIver's case tells prosecutors to turn over authorities' texts

A federal judge overseeing the criminal case of U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver has told Trump administration attorneys to turn over authorities’ text messages from her chaotic visit to an immigration detention center in New Jersey that led to charges accusing her of assaulting officers

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3 w. ago Feds charge more people in connection with July shooting at Texas detention center

Federal prosecutors in Texas have charged six more people with a new terrorism-related charge in the July shooting outside an immigration detention center near Dallas

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3 w. ago Photos of protesters clashing with police outside Chicago immigration facility

Authorities arrested protesters outside a Chicago-area federal immigration facility on Friday that activists call a de facto detention center with inhumane conditions.

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3 w. ago Judge says government is still blocking immigrants' access to attorneys at LA detention facility

A federal judge on Friday said the Trump administration is still violating detained immigrants’ constitutional rights by restricting their access to attorneys at a detention facility in Los Angeles and ordered the government to remedy the matter

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