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.
Emails Show ICE Worked With Iran on Three Deportation Flights. Human Rights First Reports That a Fourth May Follow.
The Associated Press reported in August that emails show ICE working with Iranian officials on three deportation flights to Iran. A federal court in Washington has denied a preliminary injunction in a challenge to the alleged sharing of information about Iranian asylum seekers, which the government denies. Human Rights First reports that a fourth flight may follow, and Iranians have been among the people sent to the Central African Republic.