Poland’s security services say they have detained members of a Russian espionage ring, alleging they were preparing acts of sabotage and had been monitoring railroad routes used for the transport of weapons into Ukraine. Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński said the Internal Security Agency arrested nine people suspected of spying for Russia. Three were detained Wednesday. […]
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Turkey Detains Building Contractors As Quake Deaths Pass 33,000


Authorities said more than 92,600 other people were injured in the disaster. Source
Germany Detains 25 Far-Right Extremists Who Allegedly Planned Coup


BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of police carried out a series of raids across much of Germany on Wednesday against suspected far-right extremists who allegedly sought to overthrow the state in an armed coup. Federal prosecutors said some 3,000 officers conducted searches at 130 sites in 11 of Germany’s 16 states against adherents of the so-called […]
Turkey detains Syrian suspect in deadly Istanbul bombing


Turkish police have released a video of the arrest of a woman they claim has confessed to Sunday’s deadly bomb attack in Istanbul. They identified the woman as Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national. Source
Saudi Crackdown: Regime Detains Yemeni-American Citizen While on Pilgrimage


November 14, 2022 By Staff, Agencies As Saudi Arabia is hardening crackdown on dissent, including targeting its citizens who live abroad, a Yemeni-American citizen has been detained in Saudi Arabia while performing the ‘Umrah’ pilgrimage at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site. Mohamad Salem was taken into custody on November 1 and has […]
Turkey detains Taksim explosion suspect, blames PKK


November 14, 2022 Source: Agencies By Al Mayadeen English Turkey’s Interior Minister held the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) responsible for Sunday’s bombing in a busy Istanbul street. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu stated that the suspect who planted an explosive device in Istanbul on Sunday has been arrested. A strong explosion was heard Sunday in a busy area […]
Libya militia detains hundreds of Chadians in Ajdabiya


Hundreds of Chadians were detained on the streets of a Libyan town for a ninth day in retaliation for the Chad government’s arrest of four Libyan men on suspicion of poaching endangered animals, local Libyan media reports. According to the report, at least 400 people were arrested in the city of Ajdabiya by a militia […]
Iran detains and releases U.S. USV


TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Nay has detained and then released a U.S. unmanned surface vessel (USV) in the Persian Gulf, according to Nour News. The news website, which is linked to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the IRGC Navy “controlled and towed” an American USV which had lost navigation communications […]
Iranian Intelligence Ministry detains Mossad spy squad


TEHRAN- The Iranian Intelligence Ministry on Saturday revealed that a group of Mossad agents had been detained. Source
UAE detains Khashoggi lawyer, rights group says


The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has detained a US citizen and civil rights attorney who served as the lawyer for the assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a human rights group has revealed. In a statement yesterday by the group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), it announced that the Virginia-based civil rights attorney Asim Ghafoor […]
Kazakhstan Detains Nearly 1,700 More After Violent Unrest


MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakh authorities said Wednesday they detained 1,678 more people in the past 24 hours over their alleged participation in the violent unrest that rocked the former Soviet nation last week, the worst since Kazakhstan gained independence three decades ago. The additional detentions, reported by authorities in Almaty, the country’s largest city that […]
Kazakhstan Detains Former Security Chief for Treason


Posted on January 8, 2022 by martyrashrakat Jan 9 2022 By Staff, Agencies The former head of Kazakhstan’s domestic intelligence agency has been detained on suspicion of high treason after he was fired amid violent protests. The National Security Committee, or KNB, said in a statement on Saturday its former chief Karim Masimov – a […]
Ethiopia detains thousands of Tigrayans repatriated from Saudi Arabia, rights group says


The Ethiopian government has been detaining and forcibly disappearing thousands of Tigrayans who were repatriated back to the country from Saudi Arabia, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). After tens of thousands of Tigrayans were deported from the Gulf Arab Kingdom between December 2020 and September 2021 under an agreement with Ethiopia, […]
France detains man for shipping chemical weapons parts to Syria regime


French police have detained a French-Syrian man on suspicion of supplying the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad with components to develop its chemical weapons capabilities. According to the news agency, AFP, which cited anonymous sources close to the case, the 59-year-old was arrested on Saturday in the south of France after returning to the country […]
Poland ‘detains 100 migrants after attempted border crossing’ from Belarus


Polish security forces arrested around a hundred migrants overnight as they tried to break across the border from Belarus, Poland’s defence ministry said on Thursday. “A group of around 100 migrants were arrested by Polish services,” the ministry said, accusing Belarusian forces of having “forced the migrants to throw stones at Polish soldiers to distract […]
Belarus Government Blocks Media Outlet, Detains Reporters


KYIV, Ukraine—Belarusian authorities blocked the website of a leading online media outlet, detained several of its journalists, and conducted searches involving three other media organizations Thursday, the latest moves in a sweeping clampdown on dissent and independent media in the ex-Soviet nation. Belarus’s Information Ministry said it has blocked Nasha Niva’s website after the prosecutor […]
Iraq detains 964 wanted terrorists in a week


The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Friday the detention of 964 wanted terrorists during a series of campaigns carried out by security forces last week, Anadolu Agency reported. The ministry confirmed that the campaign was carried out between 20 May and 3 July, issuing no additional details about the operation. On Thursday, two people were […]
Germany detains suspects for stoning synagogue, burning Israeli flags


German police have detained more than a dozen men in three cities suspected of damaging a synagogue with stones, burning Israeli flags and starting a fire at a memorial for a Jewish house of prayer destroyed during the Nazi pogroms of 1938.German politicians on Wednesday condemned the three separate incidents as antisemitic attacks, which coincided […]
Israel detains Jerusalem activists ahead of Palestinian elections


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Russian security service briefly detains Ukrainian diplomat


Russia‘s FSB security service briefly detained a Ukrainian diplomat in St Petersburg, Ukraine‘s foreign ministry said on Saturday, in the latest flare-up of tensions between the neighboring countries. Interfax news agency earlier reported the FSB as saying Oleksandr Sosoniuk was taken into custody when he tried to obtain classified information from Russian law enforcement databases […]
Egypt detains 8 people in Sohag train crash


Egypt’s top prosecutor yesterday ordered the detention of eight people following a train collision in Upper Egypt. Two trains collided on Friday in Egypt’s southern province of Sohag, leaving 18 passengers dead and 200 others injured. In an official statement, the general prosecutor said that the detention order had included the “drivers of the two […]
Russia detains around 200 people, including leading opposition figures


Russian police detained around 200 people, including several prominent opposition figures, at a meeting of independent and opposition politicians in Moscow on Saturday, the interior ministry said. Вот видео моего задержания: прямо во время общения с журналистами. Зачем вообще разогнали форум независимых депутатов? Власти очевидно кажется, что она демонстрирует силу. В реальности же вся эта […]
Russia detains around 150 people, including leading opposition figures


MOSCOW – Russian police detained around 150 people at a meeting of independent and opposition politicians in Moscow on Saturday, accusing them of links to an “undesirable organization,” a monitoring group and a TV station said. Вот видео моего задержания: прямо во время общения с журналистами. Зачем вообще разогнали форум независимых депутатов? Власти очевидно кажется, […]
Hong Kong detains 47 activists in sweeping use of new security law


Hong Kong police on Sunday detained 47 pro-democracy activists on charges of conspiracy to commit subversion under the city’s controversial national security law. The former lawmakers and democracy advocates had been previously arrested in a sweeping police operation in January but were released. They have been detained again and will appear in court on Monday, […]
Europol detains 10 hackers over $100 million cryptocurrency theft from celebrities


8 criminals were arrested by Europol on Tuesday following an international investigation into the theft of $100 million of cryptocurrencies through sim swapping attacks that targeted celebrities and high-profile figures. The eight individuals were detained in the United States, after two others were arrested in Malta and Belgium, all part of the same network of […]
Myanmar Military Seizes Power, Detains Elected Leader Aung San Suu Kyi


Feb 1 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early morning raids. The army said it had carried out the detentions in response […]
Los Angeles Superspreader Task Force Detains at Least 900 at NYE Parties


The Los Angeles County Superspreader Task Force detained at least 900 people after shutting down five New Year’s Eve parties. The task force also arrested or issued 90 citations and recovered at least six guns at the parties, three of them being in downtown Los Angeles, Malibu, and Pomona, KTTV reported. The Malibu party was […]
France detains ex-associate of Jeffrey Epstein over sex crime accusations


PARIS — Prominent French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, a former close associate of disgraced American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, has been detained in France on accusations of sex crimes, prosecutors said on Thursday. Brunel was detained on Wednesday on accusations of rape, sexual assault of minors, human trafficking and being part of a criminal conspiracy, Paris […]