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Joint Statement: 8 Years On: Accountability needed for Myanmar atrocities against Rohingya
Tags Share August 25, 2025, marks eight years since the Myanmar military and authorities launched widespread atrocities against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Starting in August 2017, Myanmar security forces razed several hundred Rohingya villages and killed Rohingya women, men, and children throughout northern Rakhine State, forcing at least 700,000 to flee to…
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RFK Human Rights, Adasina, and FreeCap release new investor risk briefs ahead of GEO Group and CoreCivic Q2 earnings calls
Tags Share New York, NY, August 5, 2025 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Adasina Social Capital and FreeCap Financial today released their Q2 investor risk briefs, detailing growing financial liabilities for shareholders of GEO Group and CoreCivic. These reports highlight recent facility closures, heightened scrutiny from regulators, and new and recently decided lawsuits regarding…
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The New York Times: Trump’s Immigrant Crackdown in New York: More Arrests, Longer Detention
Tags Share In President Trump’s second term, ICE has ramped up deportations in NYC by arresting migrants during routine check-ins at immigration offices and courts. New data shows over 2,300 arrests since January, many of them longtime residents with no criminal record. Inside detention, migrants report inhumane conditions, including lack of medical care, overcrowding, and…
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Coalition Demands Action as New Evidence Reveals Abuses of Migrants in El Salvador’s CECOT Prison
Tags Share A coalition of organizations filed damning new evidence today in a legal action seeking an emergency order from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, pending since May 9, and originally filed on behalf of all of the at least 288 migrants transferred from the United States to CECOT, a prison in El Salvador. …
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The Washington Post: ‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
Tags Share Deported by the U.S. under President Trump’s mass removal policy, over 250 Venezuelan migrants were secretly sent to El Salvador’s CECOT megaprison where they endured months of abuse, torture, and isolation. In a harrowing investigation by The Washington Post, detainees describe sexual assault, starvation, and beatings inside a facility built for gang members.…
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The New York Times:How Louisiana Built Trump’s Busiest Deportation Hub
Tags Share Alexandria International Airport looks like any small-town airfield, but just yards from the terminal sits the Alexandria Staging Facility, now the busiest deportation hub in the U.S. As part of President Trump’s ramped-up immigration crackdown, more than 21,000 people have passed through the Louisiana facility, often with no legal help and no idea…
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RFKHR Visit to RAB Secret Detention Site Underscores the Need for Further Accountability and Reform Efforts
Tags Share One year after the July Revolution, Bangladesh’s Interim Government should urgently act to provide meaningful redress to victims of enforced disappearances and other abuses and engage in security sector reform. For eight years, a lawyer named Mir Ahmad BinQuasem, known as Arman, was held by Bangladesh security forces in a secret detention site.…
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Miami Herald: Woman in crisis was stripped, strapped to chair at Florida ICE center, suit says
Tags Share A Colombian woman who was a victim of human trafficking is suing the Baker County ICE detention center in Florida, alleging that officers stripped, restrained, and mocked her while she was in the midst of a mental health crisis. Detained after asking for feminine hygiene products, she was placed in solitary confinement for…
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Advocacy Groups File Federal Lawsuit Seeking Justice for Woman Abused at a Florida Immigration Detention Center
Tags Share Miami, FL, July 17, 2025 – Yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the ACLU of Florida, and Gibson Dunn filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a 33-year-old woman named Ana* who was subject to abuse while she was held at the Baker County Detention Center, a county jail operating as an Immigration…
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Ana Doe v. Baker County Detention Center: Stopping sexual abuse in immigration detention
Ana Doe (a pseudonym) is a 33-year-old woman who survived human trafficking only to be sexually abused by guards at Florida’s Baker County Detention Facility.
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Newsweek: More ICE Deaths ‘Inevitable’ as Detention Numbers Soar
Tags Share Deaths in U.S. immigration detention have already matched last year’s total, with months still left in the fiscal year, and advocates warn the toll will rise. Amid record-high detention levels under the Trump administration, RFK Human Rights and the ACLU are sounding the alarm on dangerous, preventable conditions inside ICE facilities. Speaking with…
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CNN: Cuts to DHS watchdogs spark more questions as deportation efforts increase
Tags Share As deaths in immigration detention rise and new facilities rapidly expand, the Trump administration has slashed oversight mechanisms within the Department of Homeland Security. Advocates, including RFK Human Rights, warn that the gutting of key accountability offices mandated by Congress puts lives at risk due to the “inhumane conditions, medical neglect, and abuse…
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