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Byline: Paul Karp Chief political correspondent Up to 29 non-citizens released from immigration detention will have charges for allegedly breaching visa conditions dropped after the high court ruled ankle bracelets [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander Lawyers mounted a fresh legal challenge Monday against the District over its treatment of court-involved youth, seeking renewed court oversight of juvenile justice functions just four [...]

Abdelrazik is accusing the defendants in his lawsuit of abandoning him in Sudan for six years, which he says included detention and torture, Abousfian Abdelrazik says the FBI asked him to gather intelligence in Canada for the U.S. law-enforcement agency, but that he denied the request. The Montreal man, who was born in [...]

Byline: IAN BAILEY; Staff OTTAWA -- A Montreal man accusing the Canadian government of abandoning him in Sudan for six years that included detention and torture over suspected links to [...]

Abousfian Abdelrazik is seeking $27-million in damages from the federal government and former foreign affairs minister Lawrence Cannon, A Montreal man accusing the Canadian government of abandoning him in Sudan for six years that included detention and torture over suspected links to terrorism has acknowledged he encountered a [...]

Byline: Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor Judges could be given powers to impose a punishment of house arrest on criminals under a comprehensive overhaul of sentences to be launched on [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- The Crown has lost a bid to have several current and former security officials testify behind closed doors in the lawsuit of a Montreal [...]

Among those freed under the deal brokered by the U.S. government were 13 affiliated with Mountain Gateway, an American evangelical church. Nicaragua released 135 political prisoners -- including 13 people [...]

Byline: Temidayo Akinboyo Because of the detention, which lasted for almost 30 months, Mr Adeoye lost his two houses and is now diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD), his lawyer, [...]

ATLANTA , GA -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia: Wayne Alford, Latasha Baker, Matthew Freeman, also known as [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): This cert petition in Connell v. CIA follows an appeals court ruling that allowed the CIA [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The following information was released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): Lawsuit is ACLU's third filing in series of FOIA litigation in preparation for potential mass [...]

SAN FRANCISCO: Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP has issued the following news release: A federal class-action lawsuit has been filed against Acadia Healthcare, a leading provider of behavioral health services, [...]

SHREVEPORT, La -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana: A former Louisiana sheriff's office deputy was sentenced yesterday to [...]

'I eventually chose freedom over unrealisable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175 year sentence with no effective remedy,' multi award-winning Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange [...]

NEW YORK: Levy Konigsberg has issued the following news release: Levy Konigsberg has filed lawsuits on behalf of additional survivors of sexual abuse at New York City juvenile detention centers [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): Litigation part of ACLU's broader response for potential immigration actions by future presidential administrations [...]

NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Levy Konigsberg has filed lawsuits on behalf of additional survivors of sexual abuse at New York City juvenile detention centers bringing the total [...]

Lithuania: General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Lithuania has issued the following news release: This week, the District Court of Vilnius City satisfied the statement of the prosecutor of [...]

Persons detained by police have a constitutional right to be brought before a justice within 24 hours of their arrest, in accordance with section 503(1) of the Criminal Code and [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...]

The Bombay High Court, in a recent case of Hem Prabhakar Shah v the State of Maharashtra, has held that when a person is intercepted & detained in pursuance of [...]

FRESNO, Calif. -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California: Arsen Tonoyan, 48, an Armenian national formerly residing in Los [...]

Byline: By, Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas An eight-year-old boy was drowned in a water-filled pit by an 11-year-old bully who held his head underwater. The young killer, who has not been named, [...]

Byline: Ian Round The mother of Shane Burton, who was killed by fellow detainees at a detention center in Baltimore three years ago, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the [...]

Byline: Laura Brown A St. Paul resident is suing Ramsey County and others after she was brutally sexually assaulted on transport from Texas to Minnesota pursuant to a warrant. The [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner Police can't hold onto people's possessions indefinitely after an arrest, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on Friday, in a decision [...]

Byline: Jozsef Papp jozsef.papp-chang@ajc.com A former detention officer with the Fulton County Sheriffs Office was sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to choking a female detainee [...]

Byline: The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) A judge approved a settlement Wednesday in a 2017 lawsuit that challenged the detention of Iraqi nationals who were targeted for deportation during the [...]

Byline: Emma Epperly and Nick Gibson Jul. 29Spokane County is prepared to sue the state of Washington, alleging failure to properly detain and rehabilitate juvenile offenders. The county commissioners held [...]

Human rights groups are urging Canada to stop holding migrants seeking asylum in jails, often with people accused of violent crimes. His attempt to escape deportation from Germany by hiding [...]