C. Morris4d ago
'Speaking up is not only an act of resistance, but it is also an act of care & love for our kin.'
“Rizwangul NurMuhammad is a #humanrightsdefender & a member of the #Uyghur diaspora. She told ISHR how the #arbitrarydetention of her brother, Mewlan NurMuhammad, drove her to become active in the defence of human rights not only for her family, but for those of all persons whose family members had endured oppression….” | video | ISHR https://ishr.ch/defender-stories/human-rights-defenders-story-rizwangul-nurmuhammad/ #EnforcedDisappearance
Human Rights Defender’s story: Rizwangul NurMuhammad

Rizwangul NurMuhammad is a human rights defender and a member of the Uyghur diaspora. She told ISHR how the arbitrary detention of her brother, Mewlan NurMuhammad, drove her to become active in the…

ISHR
br00t4cFeb 21
Legal tourist's vacation turns into six-week nightmare in ICE center: 'I want to go home' #Gestapo #ArbitraryDetention #Bonuses #Bodies #PrivatePrisons #DHS #CBP #ICE #UK #Kidnappers #Murderers www.rawstory.com/ice-26752913...

Legal tourist's vacation turns...
Legal tourist's vacation turns into six-week nightmare in ICE center: 'I want to go home'

A tourist from the United Kingdom to the United States is sounding the alarm and warning others after her nightmare ICE experience.The Guardian heading into the weekend reported on the story of Karen Newton, who found herself in ICE custody for six weeks despite being a legal visitor. In an article ...

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Bert Ernste • NL | BRFeb 8

After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel (The Guardian)

It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned.

Terror also operates through fear. Policies are designed to make people more submissive.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/08/state-terror-us-israel-donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu

#us #UnitedStates #ice #trump #israel #netanhayu #autocracy #ArbitraryDetention #SecretPolicing #sureveillance #MilitarisedPolicing #StateTerror

After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel

It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned, says war correspondent and author Janine di Giovanni

The Guardian
Bert ErnsteFeb 8

After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1269-88c6-f48a-726590349923

Marco HackneyOct 18

#AmnestyUK free #DrHussamAbuSafiya
#ArbitraryDetention by #Israel

We must end #occupation #apartheid and #genocide

#FreePalestine
#StandingTogether

Susanne BergerAug 4, 2025

The Responsibility to Protect

Swedish diplomat Harald Edelstam’s civic courage during the 1973 military coup in Chile points the way for the international community to get serious about #arbitrarydetention and #hostage-taking.

https://lnkd.in/gXaKtb5Q

https://open.substack.com/pub/susanneberge/p/the-responsibility-to-protect?r=1y95mt&utm_medium=ios

Go Weapons HotMay 24, 2025

"Dr. Badar Khan Suri:
So these allegations, I should call them speculations or whatever, because, in the court of — in the court in front of the judge, they were not able to bring any shred of any evidence, any proof, anything.
The honorable judge kept on asking, whatever you guys are talking in social media, bring something here. Nobody brought anything.
"

#gaza #trump #censorship #arbitrarydetention

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/georgetown-scholar-and-wife-speak-out-for-first-time-since-his-ice-detention

Georgetown scholar and wife speak out for first time since his ICE detention

In their first broadcast interview since his release from ICE detention, Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri and his wife, Mapheze Saleh, spoke to Laura Barrón-López about Khan Suri's recent release after nearly two months in a detention facility in Texas. The Trump administration accused Khan Suri of "spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media"-- an accusation he denies.

PBS News
Adachi_KaoriMar 28, 2025

https://hcommons.social/@adachika192/114240929042566340

ハーバードのロシア人研究者、ウクライナ戦争開始直後にはっきり反戦抗議活動をして故国を追われ米国のビザを得ていた。フランスに行っていて（彼女のビザは出入国自由）再入国の際ボストン空港で引っかかった。直接のきっかけは、上司（指導教官？）の依頼で仏から持ち帰ってきたカエルの胚（embryo）のサンプルで、持ち込みに必要な書類の不備があったらしい。それ自体は最高500ドルの罰金という“科”であり、いきなりビザの取り消しや身柄の拘束に出るのは全く不当と。

まだ国内で勾留されており、弁護士や支援者が手を尽くしている模様で、続報を待ちます。

少し前、ベネスエラ人が一斉に捕らえられエルサルバドルに送られた際も、“タトゥーの有無”が目印というようなトンデモ基準を見かけており、もう何と言っていいか…😭

#USPol #arbitraryDetention

AK (@[email protected])

Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by Ice at Boston airport: Kseniia Petrova was returning to the US from a trip to France when officials revoked her visa and detained her (Guardian, 2025-03-27) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/russian-scientist-harvard-medical-school-ice-detention ——— “… authorities revoked Petrova’s visa and told her that she was to be deported to Russia. In response, Petrova said that she feared political persecution and was instead sent by authorities to a detention facility…” “… She was moved to a facility in Vermont at first and then Louisiana … is a jail that has space rented by ICE and is kept in a room with over 80 other female detainees” “Petrova’s boss, Leon Peshkin, said in an interview on Thursday that the researcher had good reason to fear being returned to Russia because she had publicly protested the Russian invasion of Ukraine in its first days…” #USPol #arbitraryDetention

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Hope Beyond HateMar 20, 2025

The biggest defender of free speech is now arresting everyone who thinks something the government doesn’t like. Could it be that Donald Trump only cares about free speech when it’s used to attack others, dividing society and making it even more blind to his interests?
#us #trumpadministration #freedom #freespeech #deportations #arbitrarydetention
#trump

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd65pp0pe03o

Mahmoud Khalil: Palestinian Columbia student activist writes about arrest

Mr Khalil warns that his arrest is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to "suppress dissent".

David on FormosaFeb 25, 2025

Safeguard Defenders have released a handbook to help the family members of people arbitrarily detained in China

"One year in the making, and compiled from our extensive research on China’s repressive detention systems and interviews with dozens of people including former detainees, Missing in China is being published as a response to the growing risk of detention for foreigners in the authoritarian country."

https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/publications/missing-china

#China #HumanRights #CCP #ArbitraryDetention

Missing in China

Missing in China offers readers with crucial insights and practical advice to deal with the detention of a loved one in China.