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UN urges ‘immediate’ action for victims allegedly tortured by Chicago police

Group of special rapporteurs release report detailing long history of brutal and racist police misconduct

The Guardian - US

Israel subjecting Palestinian detainees to torture and abuse: UN report

The report says ‘thousands’ of Palestinians detained arbitrarily by Israel during the war in Gaza.

Al Jazeera

U.N. Report Reveals Allegations Of Torture In Israeli Detention

U.N. report exposes torture allegations against Israeli authorities and human rights violations in Gaza conflict, raising concerns over arbitrary detention...

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HRW Condemns US' Use Of Solitary Confinement In Immigration Detention Centers

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Méndez said that solitary confinement lasting more than 15 days was a "form of torture."

Latin Times

UN report says Palestinian detainees taken by Israeli authorities faced torture and mistreatment

The U.N. human rights office has issued a report Wednesday saying Palestinian detainees taken by Israeli authorities since the Oct. 7 attacks have faced waterboarding, sleep deprivation, electric shocks and other torture and mistreatment

The Independent UK

‘Deep moral deterioration’ being normalised in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Ministers and mobs protesting at arrests for torture of Palestinians shows diminishing respect for rule of law and human dignity

The Guardian - UK

Are Palestinians being tortured in Israeli prisons?

The detention of nine soldiers has prompted protests in Israel. What are the soldiers accused of doing to the prisoners?

Al Jazeera

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Israeli official criticises Kamala Harris’s calls to end the war – as it happened

Unnamed official says comments should not be interpreted by Hamas that there is a gap between the US and its ally

The Guardian - AU

12 Dead Bodies Showing Signs Of Torture Found Daily In Mexico, Nonprofit Reveals

First responders also find bodies of mass shooting victims as well as women and children who have been strangled, stabbed or beaten to death on a daily basis, the nonprofit said.

Latin Times

Afternoon Update: Australia’s sanctions on Israeli settlers; farmers take on daylight saving; and what a Trump presidency means for Australia

Sanctions imposed in response to ‘beatings, sexual assault and torture of Palestinians’, foreign minister Wong alleges

The Guardian - AU

‘One goal is to destroy Ukrainian identity’: the haunting images of Russia’s prisoners of war

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, its forces have detained and tortured thousands of fighters and civilians. Here, the photojournalist Zoya Shu recounts five years of documenting their stories

The Guardian - UK

Inside The Dark World Of Philippine Scam Centres

It started with a raid on a Chinese-run online gambling centre north of Manila where hundreds of foreigners and Filipinos were forced to run scams or risk torture.

International Business Times

Why Belal Muhammad would rather ‘torture’ Leon Edwards than finish him at UFC 304

Belal Muhammad wants to beat Leon Edwards in convincing and dominant fashion.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Abuse rife in New Zealand state care: royal commission

A royal commission has found hundreds of thousands of New Zealand children were abused, tortured or killed while in state and faith-based care.

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The Guardian - UK

Bangladeshi students allege police torture after protests crackdown

More than 150 reported dead and thousands injured as peaceful demonstrations turn violent

The Independent UK

Victims of trafficking and torture were unlawfully housed in Essex asylum site RAF Wethersfield, court hears

Home Office is failing to properly screen vulnerable migrants before sending them to RAF Wethersfield, lawyers say

RideApart

Can-Am Torture-Tested Its Upcoming Motorcycles, Almost Hard To Watch

Can-Am has just released a new video showcasing how it's torture testing its new electric motorcycles before they're released. Here's what you need to know.

The Independent UK

Syrian official who oversaw prison where alleged abuse took place arrested by US officials

A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where human rights officials say torture and abuse took place has been arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of immigration fraud

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Salon

MAGA's tortured return to the Bush era

Torture Memo author John Yoo has hitched his wagon to the MAGA train

The Independent UK

EU-backed court convicts former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter of murder and abuse during 1999 war

Judges at a European Union-backed court have convicted a former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter with involvement in the murder of one person and the illegal detention and torture of nearly 20 more during his country’s war for independence from Serbia in 1999

The Guardian - US

Thousands of children swept up in El Salvador mass arrests, rights body says

Human Rights Watch says ill-treatment of some minors arbitrarily held in gang crackdown amounts to torture

The Independent UK

An Ohio man held a woman hostage in a ‘torture chamber’ for weeks. Now he’ll be trapped in prison for 50 years

Shane Edward Hooper used a baseball bat and metal chain as ‘instruments of torture’

AAP

Refugee torture survivors still fear repression

A Chilean political refugee who was tortured by the Pinochet regime and a Bangladeshi dissident say governments harassing diasporas in Australia is common.

Al Jazeera

Kenyan police watchdog probes police link to mutilated bodies

The nine bodies with ‘visibile marks of torture’ were found in an abandoned quarry near a police station.

The Independent UK

Man gets 226-year prison sentences for killing 2 Alaska Native women. He filmed the torture of one

A man who killed two Alaska Native women and was heard while videotaping the torture death of one say that in his movies “everybody always dies” was sentenced in Anchorage Friday to 226 years in prison

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