Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment
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The Guardian: Female migrant in Florida subjected to ‘horrific’ treatment, complaint alleges
Tags Share A recent civil rights complaint alleges abuse and neglect at a Florida immigration detention center. A woman detained in a facility with a long history of allegations of mistreatment, identified only as Ana in the report, detailed extensive mental and sexual abuse. “Ana came to Baker vulnerable and in need, and officers responded…
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New Whistleblower Disclosure and Civil Rights Complaint Reveal Abuse, Sexual Harassment, and Medical Neglect at Florida ICE Facility
Tags Share The whistleblower, a former medical practitioner at the Baker County Detention Center, confirms reports of sexual and racial abuse at the facility. MEDIA CONTACTS: ACLU of Florida Media Office, media@aclufl.org; Government Accountability Project, press@whistleblower.org; RFK Human Rights, communications@rfkhumanrights.org WASHINGTON — Lawyers representing a medical practitioner and a young woman filed a whistleblower disclosure…
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Torture of Black people in solitary confinement in North Carolina: report to UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
Receiving Body United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Report Type Submission on Principles, Provisions and Pathways to Reparatory Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Tags Partners
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North Carolina brutalizes Black people with solitary confinement: report to UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
The United States weaponizes solitary confinement against Afro-descendent people in a wide range of detention settings, from municipal jails to state and federal prisons to immigration detention centers, and even within care settings for foster youth. Afro-descendant people, who are disproportionately harmed by U.S. carceral systems, face devastating mental, physical, and emotional harm from solitary…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Exclusive: 94 Immigration Groups Urge DHS to Release Vulnerable Migrants Nearly 100 immigration advocacy groups want the Biden administration to release vulnerable migrants being held in detention centers across the United States, saying current policies have had deadly consequences. In a letter first seen by Newsweek, 94 groups asked President Joe Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to stop…
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Standing with human rights defenders in rural immigration detention: report to UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
The majority of immigration detention centers are located in remote and rural areas and 67% of detained people have been held in a rural and isolated location at some point during their custody.
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Federal Oversight Body Opens New Investigation Into Notoriously Abusive Louisiana ICE Detention Center
Tags Share Winnfield, LA, October 30, 2024 – After years of advocacy by immigrant rights groups, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) has opened a new investigation into systemic abuse and inhumane conditions at Winn Correctional Center, a notorious immigration detention facility in Winnfield, Louisiana. The investigation will…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Venezuelan opposition leaders win the EU’s top human rights prize Venezuelan opposition leaders Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia have won the European Union’s top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola. Cambodia Journalist Who Exposed Scams Is Released on Bail A prominent Cambodian journalist known for his…
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Human Rights Groups File Federal Lawsuit Revealing Disability Discrimination at Louisiana ICE Detention Center
Tags Share Basile, LA, October 23, 2024 – Yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the ACLU of Louisiana filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Ermine Nersisian, a 51-year-old disabled woman who is currently detained at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center. An asylum seeker from Russia, Ermine suffers from severe, debilitating osteoarthritis and…
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Nersisian v Harper: Fighting disability discrimination in immigration detention
This case challenges the arbitrary and abusive immigration detention of a 51-year-old woman with severe disabilities.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Ethel Kennedy remembered as ‘spitfire,’ rights champion U.S. President Joe Biden joined former Democratic presidents and others to honor longtime human rights advocate and storied political family matriarch Ethel Kennedy at a memorial service in Washington on Wednesday after her death last week at age 96. US Immigration Agency Contract with Spyware Company Poses Risk…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Several Florida jails and prisons refuse to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton Several Florida jails and prisons are refusing to evacuate their residents ahead of Hurricane Milton despite being in the evacuation zone of the storm. Manatee county jail, which has 1,200 incarcerated people and is located on the south-east side of Tampa Bay, in the path…
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