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Israel announces that West Bank settlers no longer face detention without trial
Israel’s new defense minister has said security forces would no longer apply administrative detention orders to Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, and thus only Palestinian suspects can be ...Top stories - NBC News - 8 hours ago -
Formula for Power in Modi’s India: Cash, Detentions and Luxe Resorts
With a tactic known as “resort politics,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has been accused of using brute force to take over Indian state governments.World - The New York Times - 14 hours ago -
Ice could add 600 beds to New Jersey detention center, documents show
ACLU obtains documents showing agency’s effort to expand state’s detention capacity for undocumented immigrants. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officials could add 600 beds to detain ...World - The Guardian - Yesterday -
Zimbabwe court convicts opposition leader and 34 activists after 5 months of pre-trial detention
A Zimbabwean court has convicted an opposition leader and 34 other activists on charges of participating in an unlawful gathering, more than five months after they were taken into pre-trial detentionWorld - ABC News - Yesterday -
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Resolute Mining Says CEO, Employees Released From Detention in Mali
The miner said its chief executive and two employees have been released from detention in Mali, ending a standoff that raised concerns about a resurgence in resource nationalism as gold prices ...Business - The Wall Street Journal - 2 days ago -
Anti-whaling activist Watson stays in detention in Greenland while Danes consider Japanese request
A court in Greenland has again decided to extend the custody of anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, until Dec. 4, while Denmark considers a Japanese extradition requestWorld - ABC News - November 13 -
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Mali’s junta escalates fight with mining groups over profit share
Resolute Mining chief and colleagues held as junta want greater share of gold producers’ profitsBusiness - Financial Times - November 13 -
Incoming Trump admin is eyeing new immigrant detention centers near major U.S. cities
The incoming Trump administration is eyeing locations and talking to private prison firms about drastically expanding the scale of immigrant detention centers.Politics - NBC News - November 13 -
Prison stocks jump on expectations of more detentions
Shares of GEO Group and CoreCivic surged on Wednesday in expectation that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will detain more immigrants in facilities run by the companies.Business - MarketWatch - November 6 -
Bill to ban police cell mental health detentions
The move is part of an overhaul of decades-old mental health legislation in England and Wales.Top stories - BBC News - November 6 -
U.S. Looking Into Reports of American's Detention in Iran
The State Department declined to name the person, but an Iranian-American journalist is said to be imprisoned.World - The Wall Street Journal - November 4 -
A dissident film director from Belarus is released after 1 year of detention in Serbia
A noted Belarusian film director and dissident who was held in Serbia for a year while Belarus sought his extradition has been released and gone to GermanyEntertainment - ABC News - November 1 -
A dissident film director from Belarus is released after 1 year of detention in Serbia
A noted Belarusian film director and dissident who was held in Serbia for a year while Belarus sought his extradition has been released and gone to GermanyWorld - ABC News - November 1 -
‘Carved on bodies and souls’: Ukrainian men face ‘systemic’ sexual torture in Russian detention centres
Ukraine only beginning to grapple with impact of widespread but unspoken abuse . Russian troops tortured Oleksii Sivak for weeks, applying electric shocks to his genitals in a freezing basement in ...World - The Guardian - October 29
