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China Builds Over 200 New Prisons As Xi Jinping Ups Anti-Corruption Drive
China has built or expanded over 200 specialised detention facilities across the country to support President Xi Jinping's widening anti-corruption campaign, reports CNN.
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Luigi Mangione, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Sam Bankman-Fried To Share Hellish Brooklyn Jail
Metropolitan Detention Center is fabled for its difficult conditions and is notorious even among wardens. It is depicted as one of the most "troubled" facilities in the Bureau of Prisons, with issues ranging from overcrowding, violence and more.
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"We're Not Dogs": Migrant Anger Boils After Mexico-US Border Tragedy
Searching desperately for his brother after a fire killed dozens at a Mexican immigrant detention center, Abel Maldonado pleaded with authorities to stop treating migrants like animals.
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39 Migrants Killed In Fire At Mexico-US Border Detention Center
The fire broke out shortly before midnight at the National Migration Institute (INM) facility in Ciudad Juarez, prompting the mobilization of firefighters and dozens of ambulances.
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At Least 38 Dead After Fire At Mexico Migrant Centre Near US Border
A fire believed to have been started by migrants protesting against their deportation killed at least 38 people at a Mexican immigration detention center near the US border, authorities said Tuesday, prompting demands for justice.
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"Human Disco Ball": Woman Running 2,500 Km To Help Refugees And Asylum Seekers
In an effort to raise money to support asylum seekers being held in UK detention facilities, a lady dressed as a large disco ball is running a long marathon.
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Uyghur Detainees Locked Up In Thailand Face "Hell On Earth"
Almost a decade after fleeing China, more than 50 Uyghurs are languishing in Thai detention facilities, living in constant fear of being sent back.
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5 Hong Kong Teens Detained For Advocating "Armed Revolution" Against China
Five teenagers with a Hong Kong group advocating independence from Chinese rule were ordered by a judge on Saturday to serve up to three years in detention at a correctional facility, for urging an "armed revolution" in a national security case.
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Blood And "Zombies": Ex-US Marine Describes Detention In Russia
Former US Marine Trevor Reed described his experience in a Russian psychiatric facility in an interview broadcast today, detailing squalid conditions amid severely mentally ill inmates.
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Oldest Prisoner At Guantanamo Bay Camp To Be Extradited Soon: Pakistan
A 73-year-old man from Pakistan who is the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility at the US base in Cuba will soon return to the country, the government informed the Senate on Friday.
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Belarus Moves Russian Woman Arrested Off Plane To House Arrest: Report
Belarus has moved Russian citizen Sofia Sapega, who was arrested with her journalist boyfriend Roman Protasevich on May 23 after the grounding of a Ryanair plane in Minsk, from a detention facility to house arrest, the BBC Russian service reported.
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Coronavirus: Sedition Case Against Assam MLA Arrested For Alleged Communal Remarks
A sedition case has been filed against an Assam MLA who was arrested on Tuesday for his alleged communal remarks on the quarantine centres in the state. Opposition MLA Aminul Islam had allegedly called the conditions in the quarantine facilities "worse than detention centres".
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"Gave Rs 46 Crore For India's Biggest Detention Camp": Tarun Gogoi Questions PM's Denial
Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that the country has no detention camps, saying that states were asked to set up such facilities to house illegal immigrants way back in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee era.
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"No Detention Centre, Facility For African Nationals": Karnataka Minister
Karnataka does not have a detention centre, says Hme Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who said a new facility was meant to lodge African nationals guilty of drug peddling
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Centre Instructed States To Set Up Detention Centres: Maharashtra Congress
The Maharashtra Congress on Tuesday claimed that Union Home Ministry had instructed states to set up detention centres for illegal migrants in January this year, and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of making a false statement about such facilities at his Delhi rally.
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China Builds Over 200 New Prisons As Xi Jinping Ups Anti-Corruption Drive
China has built or expanded over 200 specialised detention facilities across the country to support President Xi Jinping's widening anti-corruption campaign, reports CNN.
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Luigi Mangione, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Sam Bankman-Fried To Share Hellish Brooklyn Jail
Metropolitan Detention Center is fabled for its difficult conditions and is notorious even among wardens. It is depicted as one of the most "troubled" facilities in the Bureau of Prisons, with issues ranging from overcrowding, violence and more.
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"We're Not Dogs": Migrant Anger Boils After Mexico-US Border Tragedy
Searching desperately for his brother after a fire killed dozens at a Mexican immigrant detention center, Abel Maldonado pleaded with authorities to stop treating migrants like animals.
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39 Migrants Killed In Fire At Mexico-US Border Detention Center
The fire broke out shortly before midnight at the National Migration Institute (INM) facility in Ciudad Juarez, prompting the mobilization of firefighters and dozens of ambulances.
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At Least 38 Dead After Fire At Mexico Migrant Centre Near US Border
A fire believed to have been started by migrants protesting against their deportation killed at least 38 people at a Mexican immigration detention center near the US border, authorities said Tuesday, prompting demands for justice.
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"Human Disco Ball": Woman Running 2,500 Km To Help Refugees And Asylum Seekers
In an effort to raise money to support asylum seekers being held in UK detention facilities, a lady dressed as a large disco ball is running a long marathon.
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Uyghur Detainees Locked Up In Thailand Face "Hell On Earth"
Almost a decade after fleeing China, more than 50 Uyghurs are languishing in Thai detention facilities, living in constant fear of being sent back.
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5 Hong Kong Teens Detained For Advocating "Armed Revolution" Against China
Five teenagers with a Hong Kong group advocating independence from Chinese rule were ordered by a judge on Saturday to serve up to three years in detention at a correctional facility, for urging an "armed revolution" in a national security case.
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Blood And "Zombies": Ex-US Marine Describes Detention In Russia
Former US Marine Trevor Reed described his experience in a Russian psychiatric facility in an interview broadcast today, detailing squalid conditions amid severely mentally ill inmates.
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Oldest Prisoner At Guantanamo Bay Camp To Be Extradited Soon: Pakistan
A 73-year-old man from Pakistan who is the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility at the US base in Cuba will soon return to the country, the government informed the Senate on Friday.
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Belarus Moves Russian Woman Arrested Off Plane To House Arrest: Report
Belarus has moved Russian citizen Sofia Sapega, who was arrested with her journalist boyfriend Roman Protasevich on May 23 after the grounding of a Ryanair plane in Minsk, from a detention facility to house arrest, the BBC Russian service reported.
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Coronavirus: Sedition Case Against Assam MLA Arrested For Alleged Communal Remarks
A sedition case has been filed against an Assam MLA who was arrested on Tuesday for his alleged communal remarks on the quarantine centres in the state. Opposition MLA Aminul Islam had allegedly called the conditions in the quarantine facilities "worse than detention centres".
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"Gave Rs 46 Crore For India's Biggest Detention Camp": Tarun Gogoi Questions PM's Denial
Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that the country has no detention camps, saying that states were asked to set up such facilities to house illegal immigrants way back in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee era.
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"No Detention Centre, Facility For African Nationals": Karnataka Minister
Karnataka does not have a detention centre, says Hme Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who said a new facility was meant to lodge African nationals guilty of drug peddling
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Centre Instructed States To Set Up Detention Centres: Maharashtra Congress
The Maharashtra Congress on Tuesday claimed that Union Home Ministry had instructed states to set up detention centres for illegal migrants in January this year, and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of making a false statement about such facilities at his Delhi rally.
