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Human Rights Watch urged Thailand to demand unrestricted access to the deported individuals and publicly address China’s treatment of Uyghurs on Tuesday. A Thai government delegation is visiting Xinjiang, China, from March 18 to 20, following international outrage over Thailand’s forced deportation of 40 Uyghurs in February. Elaine Pearson, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, [...]

Several civil rights organizations on Saturday filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration to halt the transfer of noncitizens from the US to the US Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Center for Constitutional Rights, International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) and the ACLU of [...]

Positioned at the intersection of legal education and journalistic purpose, JURIST has a unique insight into how essential student voices are to advocating for the rule of law worldwide. The theme of this year’s Student Press Freedom Day, “Powerfully Persistent,” resonates deeply with our mission. Since our founding in 1996, JURIST has witnessed how student [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other immigrant advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday to gain access to detained migrants flown to Guantánamo Bay. The ACLU claims that holding migrants without access to lawyers or a means to communicate with relatives violates their habeas corpus rights, First Amendment rights, due [...]

A federal judge in New Mexico granted a temporary restraining order Sunday to block the US government from transferring three detained Venezuelan migrants to Guantánamo Bay. The three men, currently being held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility, filed the restraining order earlier that day. Their request claims the risk of a [...]

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced the arrival of 10 migrants at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility on Wednesday, after they took off the day before on the first US military plane headed there for the new mission. The DOD’s statement said: “These 10 high-threat individuals are currently being housed in vacant detention facilities.” [...]

Thousands of Los Angeles protestors shut down portions of a major LA freeway Sunday to oppose President Donald J. Trump’s immigration executive orders. Protestors shut down major parts of the freeway at about 9 AM, which the police called a “non-permitted demonstration.” According to the LAPD, the protestors exited the freeway shortly before 4 PM. As [...]

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem stated in an interview Sunday with NBC News that the federal government will follow due process for all migrants transferred to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The comment followed a question by NBC’s “Meet the Press” host, Kristen Welker, about whether migrants will have due process rights and [...]

US President Donald Trump laid out plans on Thursday to combat what he described as an “explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and in our streets” in recent months. The announcement came on the heels of an executive order, issued Wednesday, on measures the administration planned to take to protect American Jews. As has become [...]

US President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing the secretary of Defense and secretary of Homeland Security to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity. Trump ordered the expansion of the center to “provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United [...]