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April 19, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s mass trial of Jordanians and Palestinians raises serious concerns

After holding some of the detainees for nearly two years without charge, Saudi authorities began a mass trial behind closed doors on 8 March 2020 at the Specialised Criminal Court in Riyadh.
January 26, 2019

New reports of Saudi women activists being tortured in detention

Amnesty International has obtained new reports of torture and abuse inflicted on a group of Saudi Arabian human rights activists detained since May 2018.
October 10, 2018

UN highlights plight of Colombian detainees in Venezuela

Conditions in Venezuela’s prisons are “beyond monstrous”,said the UN human rights office, before calling for an independent and transparent investigation into the death of a leading political opponent of the Government.
February 18, 2018

Legal challenge brought on behalf of 11 men detained indefinitely in Guantánamo Bay

The Trump administration has filed a response to a major legal challenge brought on behalf of 11 men detained indefinitely in Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial.
January 31, 2018

Trump’s Guantánamo Executive Order 'undermines American values'

In his State of the Union speech on 30 January 2018, President Trump announced he had signed a new Executive Order to overturn the US Government’s commitment to close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre which has been in place since January 2009.
January 11, 2018

Call for US government to end detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo Bay.

The human rights organisation Reprieve has called for all branches of the US government to uphold fundamental values enshrined in US law by ending the practice of detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo Bay. The renewed call comes ahead of the 16th anniversary of Guantánamo’s opening.
October 18, 2017

Guantanamo hunger striker asks US courts to save his life

A hunger-striking prisoner at Guantanamo Bay has asked the US courts to intervene to halt a new round of abuses at the prison. Ahmed Rabbani is one of just 26 remaining ‘forever prisoners’ who will never be charged or tried, but whom President Trump has vowed never to release.
January 19, 2017

Yemeni prisoner released after 15 years in Guantánamo without charge

A Yemeni man was among ten prisoners released on 16 January 2016 from Guantánamo Bay to Oman, the US Department of Defense has confirmed.
August 10, 2016

Calls for Bangladesh to release 81 year old journalist

Dozens of press freedom groups around the world are calling on Bangladesh to free an elderly British journalist held without charge for over three months.