ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has raised concerns over the alleged “inhumane” treatment of its leader, Imran Khan, claiming he is being held in a “death cell” under near-total ...

From Hong Kong to India, governments are passing and weaponizing new laws to pursue and jail whoever speaks up for human ...

Amnesty International called for Pakistan to release high-profile Baloch activists on Tuesday, condemning the arbitrary detention of the protesters. A letter to authorities called for the release of ...

The letter said that the continued detention of the six Baloch activists, beyond the 90-day period allowed under MPO, has already long passed and violates the law. Mahrang has been ... organisations ...

Pakistan said on Monday it was creating a national paramilitary force, prompting concern among opposition parties and human rights groups that it could be used as a tool of political repression.

Noor Ul Huda is a JURIST staff correspondent in Pakistan and a recent graduate of Punjab University Law College. She files this dispatch from Lahore.  Pakistan has long been a nation where the winds ...

Critics argue it will turbocharge an already aggressive deportation machine, deepen suffering for millions of families, and offer tax cuts to wealthy Americans.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 137 into law, giving the state the power to prevent federal immigration authorities from using closed state prison sites for immigration detention ...

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) said Wednesday it was preparing to initiate a $1 million lawsuit on behalf of a U.S. citizen detained in Los Angeles after recording… ...

President Trump’s budget bill will codify much of his immigration agenda, drastically changing the landscape of enforcement and detention. Significantly, the bill funds a giant immigration detention ...

A US judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of a man charged with fire-bombing people at a Colorado event for Israeli hostages challenging their detention and possible deportation by the Trump ...