Scores detained in Hong Kong on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary
Hong Kong, China/Taipei, Taiwan Reuters Hong Kong police searched and detained scores of people on Sunday, including four arrested for “seditious” intent, as authorities tightened security for the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Restrictions in Hong Kong have stifled what were once the largest vigils marking the anniversary of the bloody crackdown […]
Haiti rights group decries “inhumane” conditions in police jails
Reuters Detainees in overcrowded cells in Haitian police stations are living in “inhumane, degrading conditions”, a human rights group RNDDH said Thursday, with police relying on makeshift prisons amid insecurity and a crippled judicial system. Six police stations that the group RNDDH visited in Haiti’s Ouest Department showed “very alarming” conditions, it said, urging immediate […]
Saudi Arabia unilaterally releases detainees to Yemen amid peace push
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Saudi Arabia on Monday released 104 detainees to Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross and a Saudi-led coalition said, in a unilateral move that follows simultaneous detainee exchanges between Yemen’s warring parties. The military coalition, which intervened in Yemen in 2015 after the Iran-aligned Houthis ousted the government from […]
Brazilian police question some 1,000 detainees after rampage in capital
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Brazilian police on Tuesday were questioning some 1,000 protesters held in an overcrowded gymnasium in the capital after anti-government mobs sacked public buildings over the weekend, as the country’s new government worked to overcome the crisis. Most of the supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro were detained on Monday as troops dismantled […]
Children among 547 detained Syrians declared dead – rights monitor
Beirut, LebanonReuters Ever since Yehya Hijazi and his two sons were detained in 2012 by the Syrian Government, their relatives had clung onto the hope they were still alive and might be released one day. But after a decade of silence from the authorities, their hopes were shattered when the independent Syrian Network for Human […]
Iran protests flare again as UN voices concern at detainees’ treatment
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Iranians kept up protests calling for the toppling of the Islamic Republic on Friday, as activists posted videos of crowds demanding the death of the supreme leader and the widely feared Basij militia he unleashed against them. Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa […]
Russian women pay the price in protests against Putin’s war
London, UKReuters Women in Russia make up a rising proportion of those being detained in protests against President Vladimir Putin’s mobilisation for the war in Ukraine, data show, as many Russian men fear being sent to the frontlines if they demonstrate. Court documents also show more women in Moscow being charged in relation to anti-war […]
Rights group says hundreds remain detained over Uzbekistan unrest
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters Hundreds of people are still in detention in Uzbekistan after deadly unrest this month in the republic of Karakalpakstan over a proposal to strip the region of its autonomous status, a rights group said. Fourteen protesters and four law enforcement officers were killed in the violence, the authorities have said, blaming it on […]
Myanmar: A year after coup, families of detainees search for answers
THU THU AUNG, of Reuters, reports from Myanmar on the search for people detained in connection with protests against last year’s military coup…
More than 1,000 people, mostly Tigrayans, detained in Ethiopia in week – UN
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters At least 1,000 people, mostly ethnic Tigrayans, have been detained in cities across Ethiopia in the past week, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Ethiopia declared a state of emergency on 2nd November, a year after a conflict erupted between the federal government and forces aligned with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the political party controlling […]