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USAJusticeWatch<p>University of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> graduate student detained by ICE, school says. “<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alireza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alireza</span></a> Doroudi, a doctoral student from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> studying mechanical engineering, is currently being held in a county jail, awaiting transfer to an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> facility, his attorney... Doroudi was taken into custody by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> at 3 am Thursday at his home... the student has "not been arrested for any crime, nor has he participated in any anti-government protests." | ABC <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/university-alabama-graduate-student-detained-ice-school/story?id=120220787" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abcnews.go.com/US/university-a</span><span class="invisible">labama-graduate-student-detained-ice-school/story?id=120220787</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arbitrarydetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arbitrarydetention</span></a></p>
AK<p>Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by Ice at Boston airport: Kseniia Petrova was returning to the US from a trip to France when officials revoked her visa and detained her (Guardian, 2025-03-27)</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/russian-scientist-harvard-medical-school-ice-detention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/27/russian-scientist-harvard-medical-school-ice-detention</span></a><br>———</p><p>“… authorities revoked Petrova’s visa and told her that she was to be deported to Russia. In response, Petrova said that she feared political persecution and was instead sent by authorities to a detention facility…”</p><p>“… She was moved to a facility in Vermont at first and then Louisiana … is a jail that has space rented by ICE and is kept in a room with over 80 other female detainees”</p><p>“Petrova’s boss, Leon Peshkin, said in an interview on Thursday that the researcher had good reason to fear being returned to Russia because she had publicly protested the Russian invasion of Ukraine in its first days…”</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/arbitraryDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arbitraryDetention</span></a></p>
USAJusticeWatch<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Georgetown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgetown</span></a> University: “Interim President Robert M. Groves defended free speech &amp; interreligious dialogue in an email sent to community members March 25, addressing the March 17 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>detention</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BadarKhanSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadarKhanSuri</span></a>…by federal immigration officials. Khan <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Suri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suri</span></a>, an Indian national &amp; postdoctoral fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding…was detained by [DHS] agents…over social media posts...” | Hoya <a href="https://thehoya.com/news/groves-defends-free-speech-amid-khan-suri-detention/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehoya.com/news/groves-defend</span><span class="invisible">s-free-speech-amid-khan-suri-detention/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArbitraryDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArbitraryDetention</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreedomOfExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfExpression</span></a></p>
David on Formosa<p>Safeguard Defenders have released a handbook to help the family members of people arbitrarily detained in China </p><p>"One year in the making, and compiled from our extensive research on China’s repressive detention systems and interviews with dozens of people including former detainees, Missing in China is being published as a response to the growing risk of detention for foreigners in the authoritarian country."</p><p><a href="https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/publications/missing-china" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">safeguarddefenders.com/en/publ</span><span class="invisible">ications/missing-china</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ArbitraryDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArbitraryDetention</span></a></p>
David Whelan<p>James Foley was murdered 10 years ago. Today was the 10th Annual Run/Walk the Foley Foundation has organized. Diane Foley is amazing and she and the Foundation were very supportive to our family. I walked today in Jim's memory but also with the hope that Mark Swidan and Kai Li and and Maria Kolesnikova and so many others held hostage and arbitrarily detained will be freed. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IRunForJim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IRunForJim</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Hostages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hostages</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ArbitraryDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArbitraryDetention</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RussiaIsATerroristState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaIsATerroristState</span></a></p>
Catherine Morris<p>Out today: Captive Humans for Trade: Where’s the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> in "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HostageDiplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HostageDiplomacy</span></a>"? …“seeks to illuminate issues that are overshadowed by intense media spotlights on State-to-State hostage-taking. Broader patterns of wrongful detention by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>, &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> are examined….” | Slaw: Canada’s online legal magazine <a href="https://www.slaw.ca/2024/09/25/captive-humans-for-trade-wheres-the-law-in-hostage-diplomacy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">slaw.ca/2024/09/25/captive-hum</span><span class="invisible">ans-for-trade-wheres-the-law-in-hostage-diplomacy/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArbitraryDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArbitraryDetention</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LawFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawFedi</span></a></p>
Catherine Morris<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AsianLawyersNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianLawyersNetwork</span></a>: “More than 8 years after the “<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/709Crackdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>709Crackdown</span></a>” in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> on 9 July 2015, in which more than 300 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawyers</span></a> &amp; activists were arbitrarily detained…Chinese human rights lawyers continue to face <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disappearances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disappearances</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arbitrarydetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arbitrarydetention</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>torture</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disbarment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disbarment</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/travelrestrictions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travelrestrictions</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a>,…harassment of them &amp; their families… prison sentences this year… <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LiYuhan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiYuhan</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GuoFeixiong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GuoFeixiong</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XuZhiyong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XuZhiyong</span></a>, &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DingJiaxi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DingJiaxi</span></a>...” <a href="https://www.asianlawyers.net/statements/2023-11-01-statement-on-detained-lawyers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">asianlawyers.net/statements/20</span><span class="invisible">23-11-01-statement-on-detained-lawyers</span></a></p>