
The Guardian - 11 hours 29 min ago
Guan Heng, who filmed at sites in China of alleged rights violations against Muslim group, detained by ICE in August A Chinese man who left his country after filming at sites of alleged human rights violations against Uyghurs now faces the risk of removal from the United States, according to his lawyer and mother. Guan Heng, 38, underwent an immigration hearing in New York on Monday after being detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) in August, his mother said in an interview...

The Guardian - 14 hours 15 min ago
Judgment finds systems designed to protect against inhuman and degrading treatment unlawfully' failing for years The Home Office has failed to protect vulnerable migrants it locks up in detention centres, a high court judge has ruled. Mrs Justice Jefford found an unlawful failure of the "systems" designed to protect immigration detainees from inhuman and degrading treatment under article 3 of the European convention on human rights and that these failings have been going on for years...

The Guardian - 18 hours 34 min ago
Tau Rodriguez-Fairplay, five, taken in February by mother's former spouse, is believed to be in town hit by hurricane A UK-based mother whose five-year old daughter was abducted and taken to Jamaica is appealing for help to locate the missing child. Tau Rodriguez-Fairplay is believed to have been hidden in the town of Black River, which was devastated by Hurricane Melissa in October. Her mother, Samar Rodriguez, a London School of Economics lecturer in human rights and gender, said Tau had been...

The Independent - 23 hours 7 min ago
A foundation in her name said she was detained at a memorial for a human rights lawyer recently found dead under disputed circumstances...