Qatar Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Qatar, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Qatar Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Qatar: Country Page Qatar: Joint Submission to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (with Migrant-Rights.org) (2019) Qatar: Joint Submission to UN Committee on […]
Middle East
Lebanon Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Lebanon Data Profile (2020) The latest detention-related data from Lebanon, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Lebanon Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Lebanon: Submission to the Universal Periodic Review (37th Session, January/February 2021) – Issues Related to Immigration Detention Report: Immigration Detention in Lebanon – […]
Morocco Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Morocco Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Morocco, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. Quick facts: Immigration detainees: Not available (2019) International migrants: 98,574 (2019) New asylum applications: 5,621 (2019) Refugees: 6,642 (2019) Ratio of relevant international treaties ratified: 14/19 View the Morocco Detention Data […]
Jordan Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Jordan Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Jordan, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Jordan Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Jordan: Country Page Report: Immigration Detention in Jordan – Detained by Employers, Locked Inside Refugee Camps, Pushed Back Into Conflict Zones Jordan: COVID-19 […]
Oman Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Oman Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Oman, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Oman Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Oman: Joint Submission to the Universal Periodic Review (with Migrant-Rights.org) (37th Session, January/February 2021) Report: Immigration Detention in Oman (2016) Oman: Country Page […]
Kuwait Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Kuwait Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Kuwait, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Kuwait Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Kuwait: Country Page Kuwait: COVID-19 Updates Report: Immigration Detention in Kuwait (2016) […]
Immigration Detention in Tunisia: Shrouded in Secrecy
Foreigners in Tunisia, particularly those from sub-Saharan Africa, face endemic racism, little or no possibility of seeking asylum because the country has yet to adopt a refugee protection regime, and pushbacks into Libya and Algeria. There is little transparency with respect to detention conditions of migrants and refugees or their treatment in border regions. Although the country had begun implementing measures in March 2020 to safeguard staff and inmates at the country’s prisons in response to the Covid-19 crisis, no such measures appear to have been taken with respect to people detained for immigration reasons. […]
Immigration Detention in Libya: “A Human Rights Crisis”
Libya is notoriously perilous for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants, who often suffer a litany of abuses, including at the country’s numerous detention facilities. Conditions at these facilities, many of which are under the control of militias, are deplorable. There are frequent shortages of water and food; over-crowding is endemic; detainees can experience physical mistreatment […]
