Arbitrary Detention
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Immigration Officers Assert Sweeping Power to Enter Homes Without a Judge’s Warrant, Memo Says Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights Holds the State of Honduras Internationally Responsible for Arbitrary Detention and Lack of Due Diligence in the Investigation of the Murder of Leonela Zelaya
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa/Washington, D.C., January 19, 2026]. The Red Lésbica Cattrachas and the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, representatives of the victims in the Leonela Zelaya et al. v. Honduras case, welcome the Judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, notified today, in which the Court declared the international responsibility of the
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La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos condena al Estado de Honduras por la detención arbitraria y la falta de debida diligencia en la investigación del asesinato de Leonela Zelaya
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa/Washington D.C., 19 de enero de 2026] La Red Lésbica Cattrachas y el Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, representantes de las víctimas en el caso Leonela Zelaya y otra vs. Honduras, celebramos la Sentencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, notificada el día de hoy, en la que declaró la
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ICE Inspections Plummeted as Detentions Soared in 2025 Amid a massive expansion in immigration detention in 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically reduced the number of facility inspection reports by the agency’s Office of Detention Oversight (ODO), one of its key tools for tracking detention conditions. There was a 36.25% decline in ICE
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PIX11: What happens after an ICE arrest?
Speaking with PIX11, our Vice President of Advocacy and Litigation, Anthony Enriquez, explains the systems of abuse and power that underlie ICE arrests. Enriquez explains that when people are arrested and processed, they are often moved, and “that power is abused to punish people.” “What we really need to do is take a hard look…
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Prisoners’ Legal Services v. Department of Homeland Security: Protecting the First Amendment and attorney-client privilege in immigration detention
Immigration detention center Buffalo Federal Detention Facility ends practice of opening, copying, and retaining privileged legal documents transmitted to detained people after lawsuit.
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Bledsoe v. Willis: Standing up to malicious prosecution
This case challenges the malicious prosecution for burglary of an innocent handyman sent to repair a broken window, part of a pattern by Louisiana authorities of unjustified prosecution and coerced plea bargaining.
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As Reza Khandan Marks One Year in Prison, Human Rights Organizations and Lawyers Join Call for his Release in Iran
Tags Share On the anniversary of activist Reza Khandan’s arrest, the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, PEN America, and the NYC Bar Association jointly call for his immediate release. Khandan, the husband of internationally renowned human rights activist, lawyer, and 2011 PEN America Freedom to Write Awardee Nasrin Sotoudeh, has long campaigned for
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Organizaciones internacionales condenan la muerte en custodia de líder opositor en Venezuela
Tags Share Las organizaciones internacionales firmantes condenamos la muerte de Alfredo Javier Díaz Figueroa en custodia del Estado venezolano, ocurrida en El Helicoide bajo control del Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional (SEBIN) el 5 de diciembre de 2025. Alfredo Díaz fue gobernador del estado Nueva Esparta y dirigente opositor, miembro del partido político Acción Democrática.
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Egypt: CFJ, Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, and RFK Human Rights Submit Communication to African Children’s Rights Mechanism
Tags Share The Committee for Justice, the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, and RFK Human Rights have submitted a communication to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) on behalf of a 16-year-old Egyptian child (identity withheld) who was unlawfully detained, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by Egyptian authorities.
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منظمات لجنة العدالة ومؤسسة سيناء لحقوق الإنسان وروبرت ف. كينيدي لحقوق الإنسان تتقدم ببلاغ إلى لجنة الخبراء الأفريقية لحقوق الطفل ورفاهه
Tags Share قدمت لجنة العدالة ومؤسسة سيناء لحقوق الإنسان وروبرت ف. كينيدي لحقوق الإنسان بلاغًا إلى لجنة الخبراء الأفريقية لحقوق الطفل ورفاهه، نيابةً عن طفل مصري يبلغ من العمر 16 عامًا (تم حجب هويته)، تعرّض للاعتقال غير القانوني والإخفاء القسري والتعذيب على يد السلطات المصرية. ويُشكّل احتجاز الطفل وتعذيبه انتهاكًا صارخًا لحقوق الطفل بموجب القانون
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Uriostegui Rios v. Trump: Freeing torture survivors from indefinite detention
This case asks whether the federal government can continue to detain someone who was granted deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture when there is no substantial likelihood it will be able to remove her to a third country in the foreseeable future.
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