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Tuesday 29 September 2020
Undocumented Irish woman Ali is living in limbo in the US.
The two cases ratchet up pressure on Canada, which is holding Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies.
A total of 124 patients who have been involuntarily detained will have to be ex-examined by their consultant psychiatrists.
Rights groups challenged the separations and a federal judge in California ordered the families brought back together by 26 July.
‘We were locked up all the time and in the yard there was barbed wire and dogs.’
Official data shows more than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents or guardians since early May.
The audio features the voice of a six-year-old girl who repeatedly asks officials to call her aunt so she can leave.
Strict new Covid-19 measures have been announced for the two counties – here’s what you need to know.
Two incidents were resolved successfully, said the director of Oberstown.
Xie Yang, who was arrested in 2015, pleaded guilty to charges of “inciting subversion of state power”.
Some of the people detained are suspected of planning attacks.
The campus had made headlines this week after a fire and violence that broke out at the facility on Monday.
The boy had viciously assaulted his victim one month prior to the Luas incident the court heard today.
The man was moved from an Australian-funded detention camp on the Pacific island of Nauru.
A source within the facility said staff had to assist gardaí in restraining them.
It was an “inappropriate and a sexual distraction to the young men.”
A HIQA report also found staff excessively used single separation, with one child locked in a room for 83 hours over four days.
There are three such institutions in Ireland, all based in Dublin.
A detention order for the man was granted today at the Criminal Courts of Justice.
The arrest took place on Tuesday but was not disclosed at the time for operational reasons.
Another female activist arrested after a protest in June is currently on hunger strike.
There were 1,591 adult involuntary admissions last year and 541 regrades of patients.
Garcia allegedly groomed her while still living with her mother, and then kidnapped her after a fight.
Don’t you forget about me.
In January 2009, Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the notorious detention centre at Guantánamo Bay. Five years on, detainees remain uncharged and subjected to waterboarding, prolonged isolation and force feeding.
It brings to 922 the number of boardings conducted this year by the Naval Service.
Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald will turn sod on Monday at the site to mark the beginning of construction.
The four Irish citizens have been detained in a Cairo prison for nearly a week.
If you’re going to get in trouble, it might as well be for a brilliant reason.
The religious orders who were responsible for the Magdalene Laundries should give money towards the compensation scheme, but Enda Kenny says he won’t go down the legal route to ensure they do.
The minister said it would not be lawful to remove the religious orders charitable status and there’s no scope to take legal action against those who refuse to contribute to the compensation scheme.
You owned those corridors.
The vessel was detained by the Naval Service in relation to an alleged breach of fishing regulations.
The Department of Justice was responding to a report published today claiming Ireland facilitated the CIA’s rendition programme.
The report indicates that flights involved in the transportation of some high profile detainees are suspected of having refueled at Shannon.
The plane used by the CIA landed in Shannon Airport on its way to Macadonia to pick the man up.
The detention of the vessel was in relation go alleged breaches of fishing regulations.
The detention was in relation to alleged breaches of fishing regulations.
The length of time to appeal being institutionalised may be shortened if changes to the Mental Health Act are introduced. Campaigners say it is not enough to address the issue of “involuntary detention”.
The UN mission to Libya has expressed concerns about the recent deaths of three people being held in detention in the country, saying they may be a result of torture.
ENGLAND HAS INTRODUCED new rules that could see people receive fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to self-isolate.
This means that anyone who has tested positive or has been a close contact of a Covid-19 case and fails to quarantine could receive a hefty penalty.
There have been some calls for a similar system here too, to prevent the spread of the virus and to stop any flouting of rules.
So today we want to know: Should people who fail to self-isolate be fined?
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