In Libya migrants face being detained or kidnapped by a whole host of militia groups, including the Islamic State, that operate in the country.
Part of the Customs and Border Protection strategy is to ensure that almost all migrants who are detained face a penalty on this side before being deported — what officers call their consequence delivery system.
A leading opponent of Nicaragua's transoceanic canal says he was brutally beaten with batons, rifle-butted in the face and illegally detained by police after he organised a protest against the inauguration of the Chinese-funded project.
Immigrants already being detained face "widespread human rights violations," according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Those detained face accusations of being members of an organized crime group, unauthorized access to a computer system, possessing card-cloning equipment, access device fraud and distributing fake electronic-payment devices.
Then, last month, Jaweed al-Ghussein, a former head of the Palestine National Fund, was arrested in his home in Abu Dhabi and whisked away by private plane, first to Egypt and then to Gaza, where he is detained facing trial for allegedly failing to return no less than $6.5m of Palestinian public money.But Mr al-Ghussein's story has several, possibly personal, dimensions.
Hugo's girlfriend Tania, who studies at the same political science school, said the women detained faced less physical abuse but the mental pressures remained enormous.
Instead look to Moscow, where three women have been detained and face up to seven years in prison because their band, Pussy Riot, staged an anti-Putin "punk prayer" in a cathedral.
Reporters for pro-Kurdish outlets are routinely detained and face threats of violence and harassment by security forces.
Now, after extensive debate and research, this group has developed a plan to create a network of legal service providers to represent all low-income immigrants in the region who have been detained and face deportation.
