Several groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s arbitrary detention of asylum seekers fleeing persecution, torture, or death.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed its concern about the detention and subsequent disappearance of Egyptian journalist Moataz Wadnan, and has called on the country’s authorities to make public what they know about his whereabouts.
Religious leaders are calling on the Home Secretary to end the Government’s use of indefinite detention – calling it “unjust, ineffective and inhumane”.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to allow the American Civil Liberties Union immediate and unmonitored access to an American secretly detained by the US military in Iraq for months.
The President of the International Federation of Journalists has written to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi expressing concern over the detention of photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid and calling for his release.
Two Australian Christian leaders have returned from Manus Island, where they met Manus church leaders and spent nearly 24 hours in the detention camp with the 340 men detained there.