Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 01:33
Pakistan has amended a controversial ordinance to allow security forces to detain terror suspects for over 90 days without trial.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 06:48
An Israeli official says authorities have begun ordering hundreds of African migrants to report to a new detention center in the country`s southern desert while it seeks to find them a place to settle.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 15:19
BJP`s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has slammed Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde`s advisory to the states to release wrongfully detained "minority youth" and has sought PM Manmohan Singh`s intervention in the matter.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 14:31
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Friday reiterated Centre`s stand against illegal detention of youth of minority communities.
Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 15:02
Thousands of African migrants, many holding banners demanding freedom for compatriots jailed by Israel, protested on Sunday in a Tel Aviv square against a new open-ended detention law which allows migrants to be sent to a desert prison.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 21:00
The government of Slovakia has taken three more prisoners from Guantanamo, helping the US get closer to its goal of shutting the prison on the base in Cuba.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 03:43
Four North Africans held in a migrant centre on the outskirts of Rome have sewn their lips together in protest at their lengthy detention, Italian news agency ANSA reported on Saturday.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 08:19
Some troops at Guantanamo Bay want the US Navy to remove Nativity scenes and Christmas decorations from two base dining facilities, saying they improperly promote Christianity over other faiths.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 08:47
An accused conspirator in the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington was expelled from a courtroom at the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunal for being disruptive.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 14:18
A Chinese man who was wrongly detained and jailed for more than 12 years for rape and murder of a teenaged girl will receive 980,000 yuan ($161,000) in compensation, a court in China announced Tuesday.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 17:04
Greenpeace organised protests in 263 cities around the world today to mark two months since 30 of its environmental activists were jailed in Russia over a demonstration against Arctic drilling.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 26, 2013, 09:36
Lawyers for the five accused 9/11 plotters have urged President Barack Obama to declassify details of the CIA`s secret interrogation programme in prisons where their clients were allegedly tortured.
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