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A new report by Migrant Rights Research Open Repository (MRRORS), a Gulf-based civil society organisation, documents a coordinated campaign in the UAE involving the detention and deportation of Pakistani Shia migrants. Against the backdrop of the Iran war and growing securitisation across the Gulf, deportees allege they were targeted primarily on the basis of their Shia ident...

The Global Detention Project has received allegations from Burundian refugees in Tanzania that authorities are detaining individuals who leave Nyarugusu refugee camp, imposing movement restrictions on camp residents, and intensifying harassment and intimidation aimed at pressuring Burundian refugees to leave the country. These claims, which coincide with similar reports from ...

There has been a marked escalation in enforcement actions against Afghan nationals in Pakistan. Under the government’s Illegal Foreigners’ Repatriation Plan, adopted in 2023 for purported national security reasons, hundreds of thousands of Afghans have been rounded up in raids and then subjected to arrest, detention, and summary deportation. Refugees and asylum seekers are he...

“You don’t feel like you are a human there. Your rights are not respected […] This place is worse than prison. […] People sit there for years. […]” – Testimony of a former detainee A new report from Collective Aid, a Global Detention Project partner in the Balkans, reveals systemic human rights violations at Lukavica Detention Centre, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) sole deten...