Four men arrested in Kenya for allegedly plotting terror attacks were released from detention in the Netherlands on Friday. The men were arrested near the Somalian border in July, thought to be in transit to a jihadist training camp and later deported to Belgium before extradition to the Netherlands. “We have not yet received any…
The three Dutch citizens and Moroccan with Dutch residency arrested in Kenya have been placed in detention in the Netherlands. A court in Rotterdam on Friday ordered their detention, a court official said. All four were to be kept in custody for 14 days, lawyer Vincent de Winkel told AFP. Following their arrest in July…
Some of the hundreds of people who were held by the US authorities at Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba were British-based. Seven of them are starting a legal challenge to prevent the destruction of any alleged evidence of government collusion in their detention. The BBC has been speaking to several of those who were…
Youssef Megahed, a legal, permanent resident of the United States, has been re-arrested just three days after a federal jury found him not guilty of explosives charges. Legal experts cite Megahed’s detention as part of a federal government tendency to use immigration law when federal prosecutors don’t have enough evidence to convict persons in the…
Italian minister Roberto Maroni and his Tunisian counterpart Rafik Belhaj have agreed to step up the fight against illegal immigration and human trafficking and related criminal organizations behind such activity. The two also agreed to simplify and speed up procedures to identify illegal Tunisian migrants held in Italian detention centers. The deportation of illegal Tunisian…
