Arbitrary Detention
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Cameroon: Authorities Must Desist from Violent Repression of Protests
Tags Share RFK Human Rights strongly condemns the attacks against peaceful protesters in Cameroon following the country’s presidential elections. We call on authorities to refrain from their attacks on their citizens and stress that authorities must act in accordance with their constitutional and international obligations. Further, authorities must investigate all claims of arbitrary detention, excessive…
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Guerra Leon v. Noem: Protecting abused and neglected youth from mandatory detention
Federal court holds the government cannot detain young person protected from removal under program for children abused and neglected by a parent.
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Carranza Chuqui v. Kurzdorfer: Defending due process for neglected youth
This case challenges the arbitrary termination of protection from detention and deportation for young people who have been abused or neglected by a parent.
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Kostak v. Trump: Stopping the expansion of mandatory detention
This case before the 5th Circuit defends a lower court decision holding that mandatory detention for arriving non-citizens does not apply to a long-time resident of the U.S.
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Ventura Martinez v. Trump: Stopping the expansion of mandatory detention
This case before the 5th Circuit defends a lower court decision holding that mandatory detention for arriving non-citizens does not apply to a long-time resident of the U.S.
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Letter to Chief Adviser Yunus: Follow-up on Human Rights CSO Meeting during UNGA 2025
Tags Share H.E. Prof. Muhammad YunusChief Adviser, Interim Government of BangladeshDhaka, Bangladesh Re: Follow-up on Human Rights CSO Meeting during UNGA 2025 Dear Chief Adviser Yunus: We write to express our deep appreciation to you for meeting with our group of international human rights organizations during the U.N. General Assembly to discuss the human rights…
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Human Rights Groups Petition UN on Behalf of Prominent Iranian Human Rights Defender Reza Khandan
Tags Share Washington, D.C. / New York / Montreal – October 9, 2025 — Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, PEN America, and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights have filed a petition and urgent action request with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) over the unlawful imprisonment of Iranian human rights…
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G.T. v. Trump: Fighting ICE surveillance
This case challenges ICE surveillance of people with electronic tracking in defiance of a judge’s order that they be released from immigration detention on bond without any further conditions.
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Amaya v. Trump: Ending immigration detention at Angola
This case challenges the repurposing of a notorious, inhumane, and shuttered unit at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, as an immigration detention center used to indefinitely detain people as punishment for past crimes for which they have already served their time.
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Savane v. Francis: Fighting arbitrary re-detention of asylum seekers
Federal court holds that ICE violated due process by detaining asylum seeker it had previously released on parole without first giving written notice.
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N.N. v. McShane: Fighting ICE surveillance
This case challenges ICE surveillance of people with electronic tracking in defiance of a judge’s order that they be released from immigration detention on bond without any further conditions.
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Practice Advisory: Challenging Revocation of Orders of Supervision through Habeas Corpus
This advisory and template brief outline arguments to prevent arrest or seek release from detention for a non-citizen with a final order of removal whose order of supervision has been or may be revoked at an ICE check-in.
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