{"id":75398,"date":"2026-06-26T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/un-calls-for-prompt-investigations-of-deaths-in-us-immigration-custody\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:00:50","slug":"un-calls-for-prompt-investigations-of-deaths-in-us-immigration-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/un-calls-for-prompt-investigations-of-deaths-in-us-immigration-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"UN calls for \u2018prompt investigations\u2019 of deaths in US immigration custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High commissioner for human rights calls for \u2018those responsible for violations of the law\u2019 to be held to account<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jun\/26\/trump-news-john-bolton-updates-today\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, on Friday raised the alarm internationally about deaths in US government immigration custody and called for \u201cprompt, independent, impartial and effective investigations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrk\u2019s call came as the Trump administration faced investigations by watchdogs at its own Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into deaths and use of force against people detained in its expanding immigration detention system across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/26\/un-deaths-immigration-custody-human-rights-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High commissioner for human rights calls for \u2018those responsible for violations of the law\u2019 to be held to account US politics live \u2013 latest updates The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, on Friday raised the alarm internationally about deaths in US government immigration custody and called for \u201cprompt, independent, impartial and &#8230; <a title=\"UN calls for \u2018prompt investigations\u2019 of deaths in US immigration custody\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/un-calls-for-prompt-investigations-of-deaths-in-us-immigration-custody\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UN calls for \u2018prompt investigations\u2019 of deaths in US immigration custody\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}