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Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan were detained Thursday in Beijing when they were en route to meet a delegation from the European Union. Yu is one of the most courageous rights lawyers in China active in defending the rights of dissidents and ethnic and religious groups. He won the Franco-German […]

BOSTON—Participants in a Department of Defense training exercise at a Boston hotel entered the wrong room Tuesday and mistakenly detained a guest instead of the person assigned the role of the person to be detained, according to the FBI. The mistake happened about 10 p.m. with the Boston Division of the FBI helping the U.S. […]

CASTROP-RAUXEL, Germany—German police have taken into custody a 32-year-old Iranian citizen suspected of having procured deadly poisons cyanide and ricin to commit an “Islamist-motivated” attack, authorities in western Germany said on Sunday. The residence of the suspect in the city of Castrop-Rauxel was searched as part of the investigation, according to a joint press release […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have detained at least four people for more than a week after they attended protests against COVID-19 restrictions in late November, according to activists, family members, and friends of the detained. While many who attended protests in cities across China last month were released after being […]

Mass student protests are gaining steam in China. Now, local police are reportedly going after those leading the demonstrations. On Wednesday night, protests against COVID-19-driven lockdowns broke out in at least five colleges in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. Some students say they’ve been confined to campus for more than a year. Authorities say the […]

Conservative American author and podcast host Jack Posobiec said he was briefly detained by police at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos while reporting on assignment for Turning Point USA to “expose the ‘Great Reset’ agenda.” Videos emerged on social media showing Posobiec at an outdoor table on the sidewalk surrounded by around four armed […]

U.S. women’s basketball star Brittney Griner was arrested on drug charges last month at a Moscow airport. Russian Customs Service says a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges that contained oil derived from cannabis. But the exact date of the arrest and the current whereabouts of the WNBA star remain unclear.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The U.S. Navy announced Sunday it seized a boat in the Gulf of Oman carrying fertilizer used to make explosives that was caught last year smuggling weapons to Yemen. The British royal navy said it confiscated 1,041 kilograms (2,295 pounds) of illegal drugs in the same waters. The interdictions were just the […]

A federal judge on Monday ordered a CNN producer arrested for allegedly trying to entice young girls to engage in sexual activity detained.

The House of Lords debated the continuing detention of British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Thursday, and called for further action from the government to secure her release. Her husband recently went on hunger strike for 21 days outside the foreign office, bringing the issue to national attention.

A Chinese human rights lawyer was briefly detained after he tried to seek help from the U.S. consulate in Shanghai. Xie Yang had been reaching out to help his client, who is being held in a Chinese jail as her health quickly deteriorates.

Two people were detained at the Los Angeles International Airport after airport officers responded to reports of an individual with a firearm on Thursday evening. In a statement, LAX said a security incident was reported at about 7:30 p.m., which prompted the self-evacuation of some 300 passengers from Terminal 1 onto the airfield. Flights were […]

The parents and brother of an American journalist who has been detained in Burma, also known as Myanmar, for 100 days vowed Tuesday to never stop working to secure his release.

Hundreds of Cubans remain in detention a month after the biggest protests in decades erupted in the communist nation. Some of those detained and their family members describe what they’ve experienced, as U.S. officials call for detainees to be released immediately.

PORT-AU-PRINCE—A heavily armed commando unit that assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise this week comprised 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans, authorities said on Thursday, as the hunt went on for the masterminds of the brazen killing. Moise, 53, was fatally shot early on Wednesday at his home by what officials said was a group of […]

PARIS—American rapper Lil Baby was detained in Paris on Thursday for allegedly transporting drugs, according to the city prosecutor’s office. NBA star James Harden was also stopped but not detained, the prosecutor’s office said. Images shared on social networks showed the Brooklyn Nets star briefly frisked in the incident on one of the French capital’s […]

Zhou Deyong last saw his wife and son in Florida half a year ago before flying back to China to care for his ailing parents aged 87 and 90.