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Hong Kong court denies bail to 32 detainees under security law
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A court in Hong Kong has denied bail to 32 of 47 democracy activists and electoral candidates charged under the city’s draconian national security law after a four-day hearing derided as chaotic and farcical. The chie...
‘People were going crazy’: Myanmar detainees recount military’s cruelty
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Freed protesters and a journalist detained by the junta describe beatings and squalid conditionsReleased from detention in Myanmar, protesters and journalists have described beatings, squalid conditions and cruelty un...
‘People were going crazy’: Myanmar detainees recount military’s cruelty
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Released from detention in Myanmar, protesters and journalists have described beatings, squalid conditions and cruelty under the military dictatorship that is opposed by most of the population. Hnin, 23, was arrested ...
Italy cable car crash detainees released from prison
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An Italian judge ruled late on Saturday that three men detained over a cable car crash that killed 14 people in northern Italy could leave prison, with one of them being placed under house arrest. In the crash a week ...
Home Office failed to put in place system to protect detainees with HIV
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The Home Office failed to put in place systems to protect detainees with HIV, a high court judge has ruled, after a man was denied lifesaving medication for four days. The landmark ruling found that in failing to adeq...
Most detainees taken off deportation flight list to Jamaica after activists block road
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Most of the people due to board a controversial deportation flight to Jamaica on Wednesday have been removed from the flight list, as anti-deportation activists have blocked the road in front of a detention centre to ...
Jailing of Syrian intelligence officer ‘step towards justice’ say former detainees
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For survivors of Syria’s brutal detention system, the landmark conviction of a former Syrian intelligence official for crimes against humanity represents a vital step towards justice. “We initially hoped for a trial a...
MPs to examine why UK delayed Iran payment that freed detainees
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MPs are to examine why ministers delayed paying a debt to Iran even though they knew the payment was likely to lead to the release of two British-Iranian detainees. The foreign affairs select committee formally confir...
Immigration detainees transferred from Melbourne to Christmas Island amid heated protests
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The Australian Border Force has confirmed the transfer of 12 immigration centre detainees to Christmas Island, 24-hours after a heated clash between police and protesters outside a Melbourne detention centre on Tuesda...
My Brother’s Keeper: a former Guantánamo detainee’s unlikely friendship with his guard
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