Big Disparities in Judging of Asylum Cases
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The outcome of asylum cases can be influenced by things like the location of the court and the sex and professional background of judges, a study has found.
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Ines Olivia Martinez wonders if her family will be denied medical care. Even her mentally disabled 13-year-old son has been anxiously pointing out police cars amid fears of a local crackdown on illegal immigrants. Resolutions to deny a potentially wide range of public services to illegal immigrants have thrust two northern Virginia counties into the nation's immigration debate.
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The number of immigrants detained by the United States has grown from 90,000 to 283,000 over the past five years, and many were improperly barred from making even a single phone call to a lawyer, congressional investigators reported this week.
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Â· 'Street barrister' took cash from asylum seekersÂ· Review deportee cases, say campaigners
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Tales of high-level sleaze heard in court have angered millions afflicted by welfare cuts and a pay freeze
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Court cases that included use of the controversial Low Copy Number DNA testing technique are to be reviewed.
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After years of indefinite confinement, many detainees at Guantanamo Bay say they feel they may never receive justice, according to transcripts of hearings obtained by The Associated Press. Fewer than one in five of detainees allowed a hearing last year even bothered to show up for it.
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Getting details about immigrants who have died in administrative custody is a difficult undertaking.
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Wiggy jurist wants a more inclusive society One of the UK's top judges has thrown a grenade into the smouldering debate around the national DNA database, saying that everyone in the UK - including visitors from overseas - should be on file.â¦
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BRUSSELS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Plans by the European Union to allow police to  study data on asylum-seekers have run into difficulty amid  concerns that the move could result in victims of persecution  being treated as criminal suspects.
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Conditions for asylum-seekers are becoming tougher because of terror fears in rich countries, the UN warns.
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BUDAPEST, Nov 29 (IPS) - In an embarrassing development for Hungary, Sweden  has for the past weeks received a growing number of asylum  applications from mostly ethnic Roma citizens who complain of  discrimination in the fellow European Union (EU) member state.
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The government's terrorist screening database flagged Americans and foreigners as suspected terrorists almost 20,000 times last year. But only a small fraction of those questioned were arrested or denied entry into the United States, raising concerns among critics about privacy and the list's...
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ATHENS, Dec. 7 (IPS) - Immigration and dealing with migrant workers has  perennially been a problem for countries across Europe, but  nowhere more than in Greece. Huge problems remain unsolved while  the country attempts to match the requirements of EU law.
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Ugandans suspected to be illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom are languishing in the country s various asylum seekers detention centres with some alleging torture and mistreatment by the authorities.
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An Iraqi woman who was granted refugee status in the United States after saying that she had been imprisoned, tortured and sexually assaulted in Iraq during the 1990s appears to have made false claims.
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LOS ANGELES _ Justice delayed may be justice denied _but at the end of the day it is incontestably better than nothing. Societies that disrespect the professionalism of their courts ultimately court catastrophe.