‘Children don’t belong in jail’: Critics are seizing on Trump’s executive order to detain entire families together

Reuters/Leah Millis Critics are seizing on President Donald Trump’s executive order that ends family separation for migrants and instead seeks to detain entire families together if they cross the border illegally. The Trump administration will have to amend an existing legal agreement known as the Flores settlement, which bars the government from detaining children longer […]

Scrap ‘barbaric’ pre-Victorian powers to detain rough sleepers, homeless campaign group tells RT

“Dickensian” laws allowing for thousands of homeless and “peaceful” beggars to be removed from the streets and prosecuted should be repealed, an Oxford University campaign group told RT. On Your Doorstep, a homelessness campaign group part of the university’s student union, launched a petition calling for the pre-Victorian Vagrancy Act 1824 to be repealed, as […]

Milan Police detain Gambian migrant for attempting to snatch cross from Christmas tree

Published time: 26 Dec, 2017 08:47 A Gambian man has been apprehended by Italian police in downtown Milan while climbing up a Christmas tree in a bid to remove a cross at its apex. Following a psychiatric examination, the man was admitted to a secure hospital.  A 21-year-old man from the Gambia was arrested by […]

Israeli police detain three Turkish citizens at Al-Aqsa Mosque

Published time: 23 Dec, 2017 16:38 Three Turkish tourists were arrested in Jerusalem over an incident that followed Muslim prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday, an Israeli police spokesman said. The spokesman didn’t elaborate on the circumstances of the incident, Reuters reports. However, eyewitnesses told Turkish Anadolu news agency that the arrests came after a […]

Ukraine tried to detain an anti-corruption leader, but now he’s broken free and is demanding the president resign

REUTERS/Gleb Garanich Several hundred protesters and opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili are marching down the streets of the Ukrainian capital to the parliament to demand the president’s resignation. The former president of Georgia, who has emerged as an anti-corruption campaigner in Ukraine, earlier broke free from custody several hours after he was detained. Hundreds of protesters […]

Australian police detain jihadist sympathizer plotting New Year’s Eve attack in Melbourne

A 20-year-old Australian citizen has been arrested for plotting a shooting rampage in Melbourne’s central square while it is packed with New Year’s Eve revelers. Police say he was inspired by jihadist terrorists and associated with a local “extremist community.” The man was rounded up during a special operation by police conducted at around 3 […]

French police find explosive device in Paris, detain ‘radicalized’ person

Published time: 3 Oct, 2017 07:16 Edited time: 3 Oct, 2017 07:31 French police arrested a number of people after the discovery of an explosive device outside a residential building in Paris last weekend, the interior minister said on Tuesday. Gerard Collomb said one of those arrested was “radicalized,” a likely reference to Islamist militancy, […]

Paris police detain RT correspondent at post-election protest, take phone away

Published time: 7 May, 2017 22:48 Edited time: 7 May, 2017 23:22 RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij was detained by police while covering a Paris protest following the presidential run-off. In a brief call to RT before her phone was snatched away, Dubenskij described the incident as “not a pleasant experience.” FOLLOW RT’s LIVE UPDATES Dubenskij was […]

Spanish police seize synthetic drug ‘80 times stronger’ than marijuana, detain two Brits

Published time: 16 Apr, 2017 01:21 Spanish authorities have arrested two Britons suspected of smuggling a new type of synthetic drug – said to be “80 times stronger” than regular cannabis – into the country. The two British men, aged 36 and 37, have been arrested in connection with the new synthetic drug that was […]