With files from The Canadian Press

“On each occasion, Mr Yemini was wrongfully arrested and detained by members of Victoria Police whilst reporting for Rebel News,” the statement said.

OTTAWA—Global Affairs Canada says consular officials in China visited detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig on March 25.

Out of 48 suspected shipments detained by the border agency between 2020 and late 2025, 37 were released, two were prohibited, seven were re-exported, and one was abandoned.

(Carlos Landaeta/AFP via Getty Images) Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people in an August statement, calling for the release of those arbitrarily detained.

A van pulls up and they were detained, assaulted, and later released without charge. They all have terrible stories," Prudhoe said. In January 2021 a TCI appeal court ruled the Sri Lankans had been unlawfully detained for an extended period.

A man who claimed to be from Sudan runs for the border holding his family's passports as he is chased by a U.S. border patrol officer as he was detained after his family crossed the U.S.

The Canadian Press contributed to this report.

Activists and U.N. rights experts say at least a million Uyghurs have been detained in camps in Xinjiang.

The Canadian Press contributed to this report.

However, she did so while detained and without being free. Legally, it shouldn’t be valid because it is not an expression of her free will,” Xie said.

Norton cited “credible reports” that over 1 million people have been arbitrarily detained in Xinjiang—some facing torture and other “inhuman” treatment—and that Uyghurs and others face disproportionate surveillance and restrictions on their culture.

In June, Liberal MP and Fraser's parliamentary secretary Patricia Lattanzio said in the House of Commons that Canadians "deserve to feel safe in their own communities," and that Ottawa would "move aggressively to protect victims."

Also being Canadian yourself, you know [about] the two Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who are still detained in China a year and a half later, again on these vague national security concepts.

A Canadian decision to train Chinese troops in Canada is coming under fire. Chinese troops were set to visit the country for a military training session. That’s after Canadian soldiers traveled to China in 2018.

The Chinese title of the event, “Black and White Reversed,” reflects the current situation in Hong Kong, where many individuals involved in the democratic movement are detained and subjected to unfair trials.

Spavor and Kovrig were arbitrarily detained in China in December 2018.

Joly noted in her statement that Canada will continue to monitor the situation in China and continue to call on Beijing to release "individuals in China who have been detained or imprisoned for exercising their human rights."

The two men were detained in December 2019, shortly after Meng’s arrest in Vancouver on a U.S. warrant relating to multiple charges, including bank fraud and violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.

More than 1 million ethnic Muslim minorities are detained in a network of internment camps in the region, where they are subjected to forced labor, torture, rape, and political indoctrination.

They called on the Canadian government to sanction the CCP for their suppression of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, pro-democracy activists, and Tibetans.

U.S. immigration authorities are also no longer detaining illegal immigrants, instead returning them immediately to the country they entered from. If that's not possible, the illegal aliens are being sent to their country of origin.

In September, Iran freed a retired Canadian-Iranian university professor amid negotiations to reopen embassies in the two nations.

According to the “law enforcement issues” section of the federal government’s website, while in Turkey the couple were detained by Turkish authorities near the Turkey-Syria border for suspected terrorism-related activity and were charged for being a part

They condemned all forms of such repression, including the misuse of cooperation with foreign states and international bodies to detain targets, forced return, doxing, and the abuse of spyware and cybertools for surveillance purposes.

Film director Jason Loftus is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and four-time Canadian Screen Award nominee. He is also the producer of several other acclaimed human rights movies such as Ask No Questions, The Bleeding Edge, and Human Harvest.

Of those arrestees 600 have been sentenced to jail, while 160 of them have been detained with pending trials.

The police measures were marked by multiple rounds of tear gas and pepper spray, use of a police water cannon and rubber bullets, and allegations of police raping a detained female protester. During her election campaign in May, Ms.

“The death of Jiang Zemin reminds us of the instrumental role he played in the mass killing of prisoners of conscience for their organs,” said David Matas, a Canadian human rights lawyer who has investigated the regime's forced organ harvesting.

According to the Interior Ministry, more than 270 protesters were detained by authorities for “disobeying the lawful demands of the police.”