An American social media influencer who has been stuck in a Chilean airbase in Antarctica for two months after landing a plane there without permission was released on Saturday back to the mainland, where he was to pay $30,000 in penalties. Ethan Guo, who was 19 when he began his fundraising mission for cancer research,…
Activists of the left parties take part in a protest rally against alleged illegal detention and torture of Bengali-speaking migrant workers, in Kolkata (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) concerning the detention and alleged torture of Bengali-speaking migrant workers under suspicion of being Bangladeshi…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday issued a firm warning to illegal immigrants and said that those who enter the country unlawfully will face immediate detention and removal. The development comes after the United Kingdom has expanded its “deport now, appeal later” scheme to 23 countries, including India, which would help it in “securing…
MUMBAI: In the 1,036-page judgment in the Malegaon blast case, the judge found merit in allegations that the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had tortured witnesses and planted evidence. While the court dismissed torture claims from now- acquitted accused Pragya Thakur and Lt Col Prasad Purohit, it did find accused Sameer Kulkarni’s claims of illegal detention to…
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi (Image credits: ANI) NEW DELHI: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday criticised the detention and deportation of Bengali-speaking Muslim citizens across India, accusing the police administration of unfairly branding them as “illegal immigrants.” Taking a dig at the BJP-led central government, Owaisi alleged it was acting “strong…
A report has exposed the inhumane conditions faced by undocumented migrants and the degrading treatment of detainees at several US immigration facilities. Among the most alarming revelations is the treatment of female detainees at the Krome North Service Processing Centre in west Miami, where women were reportedly forced to use toilets in full view of…
In its starkest advisory, the US State Department has urged American citizens not to travel to Iran “for any reason,” citing an escalating pattern of wrongful detentions, threats to civil aviation, terrorism, and misleading surrogacy services. The updated Level 4: Do Not Travel advisory comes amid growing tensions and a string of high-profile detentions involving…
Florida has begun the construction of a temporary migrant detention facility, dubbed the “Alligator Alcatraz”, to hold illegal migrants on an airstrip in the Everglades wetland area of the state. The facility is surrounded by alligators, crocodiles, and pythons. The project is part of the Donald Trump administration’s broad push to expand detention facilities amid…
Masked immigration agents seizing a graduate student on a suburban street. Officers marching into campus housing and arresting another, ignoring his distraught wife as she asks where he is being taken. They have been among the defining images of President Trump’s second term. But with Mahmoud Khalil’s release on bail from federal detention on Friday,…
NEW YORK: Hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the United States to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law must be given the chance to challenge their detentions, and the Trump administration must facilitate the legal challenges, a US judge ruled on Wednesday. US District Judge James Boasberg gave the Trump administration one week to…