News & Reports
Reports and analysis on torture and refoulement from every region, with the source for each statement.
Iranian Nationals and the Risk of Return to Torture
Part 6 of 7. Since September 2025 the United States has returned more than a hundred Iranians to Iran, and it has sent others, among them people its own judges protected against return there, to the Central African Republic. In October its lawyers told a federal court that further removals to Iran were planned, by way of a third country. What the record shows, what the law requires of each route, and why the confidentiality of a protection claim is part of the protection itself.
The Legal Obligations That Continue After Deportation
Part 7 of 7. When the United States removes a person it was bound to protect, the law does not simply lose sight of him. Federal courts have ordered the government to bring back people it sent abroad without the process the law requires, and the government accepts that a person who wins a petition for review after removal can have his return facilitated. What those orders require, where their limits lie, and what the Supreme Court’s review of removal to third countries, and of the risk of onward refoulement, may decide.
Out of Public View: The Detainee Locator Policy and Access to Counsel
Part 3 of 7. Since mid-September 2026, according to the Associated Press and the court filings that followed, people held by ICE whose orders of removal are final no longer appear in the agency’s public locator. Some of them hold protection against torture or persecution, and the remedies that protect them begin with knowing where they are held.
Third-Country Removal Is a Pretext for Refoulement. The United States Is Sending People Its Judges Protected Back to Torture and Persecution Through Transit Countries in Africa and Latin America.
People US immigration judges protected from return are being flown to third countries that send them home or hold them until they go. Courts, sworn declarations, the receiving governments and 60 Minutes document it. The Coalition sets out the record and the law.
He Reported for More Than Twenty Years. A Federal Appeals Court Says ICE Broke Its Own Rules When It Took Him Back.
On 21 October 2026 the Tenth Circuit held that ICE broke its own rules by not promptly interviewing a man it re-detained after more than twenty years on supervision, and that re-detention does not restart the six-month Zadvydas period.
The Plane Landed in Monrovia at 12:45. By Evening It Was in Malabo.
Six people refused to get off a United States removal flight in Liberia, saying it was not their country and that they would face danger there. They were told they would be flown back to the United States. The same aircraft landed that evening in Equatorial Guinea.
She Filed Her Own Habeas Petition From Detention. Two Days After Her Reply Was Docketed, She Was Flown to Liberia.
Paola Ferreira Dos Santos filed her own petition for habeas corpus from immigration detention in Texas in March. A judge ordered the government to state the status of her removal proceedings. Her reply was entered on the docket on 17 August. On 19 August she was flown to Liberia. The petition has never been decided.
Twenty Were Flown to Liberia on 20 August. Five Were Put Back on the Plane.
Roughly twenty people landed at Monrovia on 20 August. Five refused to leave the aircraft and, Reuters reported, were taken on to Equatorial Guinea. Most of the fifteen who remained had already won an order from an American court forbidding their return to their own countries.
49,571 Arrests in One Month. One Every Fifty-Four Seconds.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 49,571 people in July 2026, from the agency's own records. Al Jazeera English sets that beside more than 476,000 removal orders in nine months.
Forty Hours Outside a House in Frederick, Maryland. Then Batons, and No One Arrested.
Federal immigration agents held position outside a Frederick home for about forty hours. On the second night they drove onto the pavement, used batons on the neighbours who had gathered, and left without arresting anyone. The city police were not told the operation was happening.