TEHRAN, Jan 10- Iran has dismissed as "lies" US media reports suggesting that an American citizen it recently arrested is being held in suboptimal conditions.
TEHRAN, October 07 -Prisoners at a detention center in South Sudan’s capital Juba staged a riot early on Sunday, seizing from a storeroom and triggering a stand off with guards, a security source and residents in the area said.
TEHRAN, August 29 -A Guatemalan asylum seeker has filed a claim against US authorities for the "wrongful death" of her daughter, who died six weeks after their detention by US immigration police, her attorneys said Tuesday.
TEHRAN, August 13 - The Egyptian security services detained an accomplice of the perpetrator of the recent failed terrorist act at a church in Cairo, local media reported.
TEHRAN, July 03 -A federal judge Monday ordered the Department of Homeland Security to determine whether to grant asylum-seekers parole from immigration detention on an individual basis.
TEHRAN, June 22 - The U.N. human rights office called on the Trump administration on Friday to overhaul its migration polices and find alternatives to detention , saying children should never be held in custody, even with their parents.
TEHRAN, April 13 - An Indian man died on Friday at a Japanese immigration detention center in an apparent suicide, the latest death in a system widely criticized over medical standards, monitoring of detainees and mental health care.
TEHRAN, March 20 - Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the chairman of Kingdom Holding who spent nearly three months in detention in the kingdom's anti-corruption campaign, told Bloomberg TV he had reached an agreement with the government for his release.
TEHRAN, December 16 - Sabih al-Masri, Jordan's most influential businessman and the chairman of its largest lender Arab Bank, was detained in Saudi Arabia for questioning after a business trip to Riyadh, family sources and friends said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, November 10 -About 20 asylum seekers departed an abandoned Australian-run detention center in Papua New Guinea on Friday, leaving hundreds threatened with forcible eviction within days, amid an immigration standoff that has blighted Australia for years.
TEHRAN, October 3 -Turkish authorities have issued detention warrants for 254 Istanbul municipality and staffers of ministries on suspicion of links to the alleged mastermind of last year’s coup attempt.
TEHRAN, May 9, YJC -Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report that reveals several immigrants’ deaths in US detention facilities due to “systematic” medical negligence.
TEHRAN, April 26, YJC - Turkish authorities detained over 1,000 people suspected of links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen overnight Wednesday, in one of the largest operations in months against the network which Turkey blames for a failed coup in July last year.
TEHRAN, April 2, YJC - Istanbul’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office has ordered the re-arrest of 21 journalists who were supposed to be released from detention by order of an Istanbul court.
A newly-released report shows Israeli forces took into custody a total of 420 Palestinians only in the month of February as Tel Aviv continued its crackdown in the occupied territories.