ICE rapidly re-arresting immigrants released after winning court petitions
By Cris Seda Chabrier November 2, 2026 Many are challenging their detention using habeas corpus filings only to be arrested again, in violation of court orders. Credit: The Guardian Immigrants who have been granted release from detention after winning habeas corpus petitions in court are being re-arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Guardian has identified at least 20 cases nationwide relating to people who were detained after being released on habeas
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The unraveling of US transgender rights
By Maggie Mertens November 8, 2026 From the military to healthcare, Trump systematically dismantled Obama-era protections for transgender rights Credit: Getty Images Shelby Chestnut remembers turning on the news in 2016 and hearing something he didn’t expect. Then- attorney general, Loretta Lynch, had just announced a federal lawsuit to block HB2 in North Carolina, otherwise known as the “bathroom bill”. Lynch said the law, which made it illegal for transgender people to use
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Pakistani attacks on Ahmadis continue
IANS September 23, 2026 Credit: Vividh Barathi Islamabad, Sep 23 (IANS) As violence against the Ahmadiyya community continues unabated in Pakistan, another Ahmadi Muslim man was attacked in Punjab province, leaving him seriously injured, a leading minority rights organisation highlighted on Wednesday. According to Voice of Pakistan Minority (VOPM), Hamid Javed was attacked with a knife by an unidentified man in the Lathianwala area of Faisalabad district on September 21, whil
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Pakistan: Detention of Imran Khan's family violates rights
Amnesty International September 21, 2026 Credit: WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images Responding to the arbitrary detention of members of former prime minister Imran Khan’s family, including his three sisters, as well as activists from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ahead of the party’s planned protests and march on 27 September, Babu Ram Pant, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for South Asia, said: “The targeting of Imran Khan’s family and PTI party activists is
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UN urges Pakistan to free rearrested rights lawyers
JURIST October 1, 2026 Credit: Aerra Carnicom, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons UN experts on Wednesday called on Pakistan to immediately release human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha and to drop all charges against them, which they say have no justifiable basis. Mazari-Hazir and Chattha were re-arrested on September 17 on charges relating to an alleged illegal protest in March 2025. The arrest took place hours after the Supreme Court of Pakistan gra
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UN: Pakistani airstrikes kill 10 civilians in Afghanistan
Sami Yousafzai October 1, 2026 Credit: Aimal ZAHIR/AFP/Getty Islamabad — Pakistan launched new airstrikes in Afghanistan overnight, killing at least 10 people, most of them children, the United Nations mission in the country said Thursday. Islamabad claimed the attacks targeted militants with Pakistani insurgent groups who have mounted attacks on the country, but Afghanistan's Taliban government accused the neighboring nation of aggression, saying the strikes hit civilian hom
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Pakistan: Secret trials allowed under Punjab anti-terror law
Amnesty International October 9, 2026 Credit: Commonwealth Parliamentary Assciation The Anti-Terrorism (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2026, passed by the provincial assembly in Punjab province on 31 August 2026, to amend the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 (henceforth referred as “ATA”) is a glaring attack on the right to fair trial in Pakistan. The amendment creates a mechanism for trials shrouded in complete secrecy, exceeding permissible exceptions to the right to a fair trial, which in
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Baloch Yakjehti Committee exposes wave of target killings
ANI October 7, 2026 Caption: The Tribune India Balochistan [Pakistan], October 7 (ANI): The Human Rights Department of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) has released alarming documentation shedding light on escalating state-sponsored repression in the region. Taking to X to expose the grim reality, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) shared the critical update, “Documented Cases of Target Killings in Balochistan by the Human Rights Department of the Baloch Yakjehti Committe
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5 held in mob attack over blasphemy claims in Pakistan
UCA News October 12, 2026 Credit: Aroon Arthur Police in Pakistan’s Punjab province have arrested five suspects in connection with a mob attack on a village clinic run by a Christian man over allegations of online blasphemy. Kamran Gill Masih, a traditional medicine practitioner from Gharyal Kalan, a Muslim-majority village in Sheikhupura district, was accused of sharing blasphemous content on social media. The mob set fire to his small dispensary adjoining his home on Oct. 9
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Pakistan: Emergency must not be pretext for rights crackdown
Amnesty International October 12, 2026 Credit: Arif Ali/ AFP Responding to the declaration of a state of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as well as the imposition of governor rule and the deployment of armed forces in the province, Babu Ram Pant, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for South Asia, said: “Reports of arbitrary detentions of key leaders – including the provincial chief minister – and internet disruptions across the province raise concerns about the proporti
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Drone strike kills 12 civilians collecting grain in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Andrew Wasike Anadolu Agency (Anadolu Ajansı) October 31, 2026 NAIROBI, Kenya At least 12 civilians were killed and several others injured in a drone strike in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region Friday while collecting grain spilled from a truck damaged in an earlier attack, local authorities and hospital sources confirmed Saturday. The attack took place in the town of Rama, where residents had gathered to collect sorghum scattered across the road after a privately owned truck
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UN: More than 86,000 Afghans held in Pakistan this year
Siyar Sirat October 24, 2026 More than 86,000 Afghan nationals have been arrested or detained in Pakistan so far this year, while more than 812,000 have returned to Afghanistan, according to new figures from the UN refugee and migration agencies. Credit: IOM A joint update by UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration shows that 86,644 Afghans were arrested or detained across Pakistan between Jan. 1 and Oct. 17. Of those, 82,526 were Afghan Citizen Card holders or
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