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UN torture prevention committee cancels Australia visit

A UN committee for the prevention of torture has cancelled previously delayed plans to visit Australia over concerns about restricted access to facilities.

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UN torture prevention panel terminates visit to Australia

A U.N. torture prevention panel terminated its suspended visit to Australia, saying it continued to face obstacles in getting access to some detention centres in the country.

Reuters

UN torture prevention body cancels Australia trip after refused access to detention, mental health centres

Australia has now joined Rwanda as the only other country to have inspections terminated by the United Nations, after the international body was denied full access to detention and mental health in-patient wards in New South Wales and Queensland.

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Commit to end torture

Tomorrow should have been a historic day for human rights in Thailand. It should have been a time for human rights advocates and the public to celebrate because the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act -- a crucial piece of legislation which took 14 years to pass…

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Klopp relives final ‘torture’ before Liverpool’s rematch with Real Madrid

Jürgen Klopp has said it was ‘torture’ to watch Liverpool’s Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid last year before the sides lock horns again in the last-16

The Guardian - UK

"Proper torture" - Jurgen Klopp explains what he noticed after rewatching UCL final loss

Jurgen Klopp renews rivalries with Real Madrid in the Champions League this week after already losing two finals to the Spanish giants and has revealed he did not particularly enjoy watching the games back

Daily Mirror

Jurgen Klopp explains Real Madrid 'torture' and why he wouldn't watch Liverpool defeat

Jurgen Klopp sat through Champions League final loss to Real Madrid for first time but believe things are different for Liverpool now

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Jurgen Klopp says watching Champions League final rerun was ‘proper torture’

The Liverpool boss did not watch a playback of the Paris contest back until recently.

The Independent UK

Longtime activist celebrates 90th birthday

Family and friends celebrated Mary L. Johnson, who has spent much of her life trying to free people falsely accused of crimes they did not commit brought about by false confessions through torture by the Chicago Police Department.

Chicago Sun-Times

Qld man jailed for brutal, prolonged torture of partner

A Queensland man has been jailed after torturing his partner, assaulting her every couple of days including pouring boiling water over her.

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Brisbane man Geordan Mercer, who brutally tortured partner, jailed for seven years

A Brisbane court heard Geordan Mercer launched a series of attacks on his partner after learning she was working as an escort.

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Taking over the Sri Lankan presidential palace was a high point for Wasantha. Then came six months of horror

This 29-year-old spearheaded a protest movement that toppled Sri Lanka's government. But after his triumphant moment, Wasantha was taken into a feared detention system where prisoners have been tortured and killed.

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Australian ex-soldier alleges ‘sexual violence’ inflicted on him during secretive course

Damien De Pyle said he was forced to commit humiliating acts while suffering sleep deprivation during torture resistance training, court documents show

The Guardian - AU

“What do we do to thieves?”: Dealers battered and kidnapped drug user while filming 'degrading' two-hour ordeal

“You son of a b***h. You going to rob me? I’m going to torture you”

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The Guardian - AU

Government bid to gag parts of case related to torture survival course criticised by lawyers

Basic documents in case brought by defence whistleblower Damien De Pyle against commonwealth temporarily suppressed

Chicago Sun-Times

Lawsuit seeks white woman’s arrest in Emmett Till’s 1955 kidnapping, lynching

Researchers last year found an unserved search warrant on an accuser connected to the Chicago teen’s torture and death. Till’s cousin wants the warrant served on Carolyn Bryant.

Manchester Evening News

A torture gang, killer drink driver and a boasting drug dealer: The people locked up in Greater Manchester this week

A controlling thug who dubbed himself a ‘wife beater’ as well as a drug gang who were caught hiding in people’s gardens have also been caged this week

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Federal government seeks to suppress court documents examining torture-resistance program

The Defence Department urgently seeks to suppress court documents examining a torture-resistance training program that a former soldier claims breached his human rights.

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Nicole Bulley's children ask 'is mummy famous?' as search hits two weeks mark

Describing the ongoing search as "torture", Ms Bulley's friend Emma has revealed that her girls, aged six and nine, appear "deflated" every day as they ask where their mum is

Al Jazeera

‘Secrecy the priority’: Guantanamo battling COVID outbreak

Lawyers say the ‘massive’ outbreak puts already unwell detainees at further risk in camp where medical care is poor.

Daily Record

Murder of Edinburgh woman to be analysed by forensic experts in new Sky Crime documentary

The crime show will explore the case of Elaine Collie who was tortured and murdered in her Edinburgh flat.

Edinburgh Live

Sky true crime series to examine notorious murder of Edinburgh woman by her neighbour

The crime show will explore the case of Elaine Collie who was tortured and murdered before having her belongings stolen after letting her neighbour John 'Jock' Reid into her flat.

Chicago Tribune

Max Domi went through ‘torture’ for his tattoos, but the Chicago Blackhawks forward doesn’t have any regrets. Here’s what they all mean.

Max Domi’s first tattoo had a practical use: a medic alert symbol.

The Guardian - UK

‘They used our hijabs to gag us’: Iran protesters tell of rapes, beatings and torture by police

As human rights organisations report an escalation in the brutal treatment of detainees, we speak to some of those who claim to have suffered at the hands of state security forces

The Guardian - US

Guantánamo detainee who was tortured by CIA released to Belize

Al-Qaida courier turned informant Majid Khan, 42, to be permanently resettled after being held in US custody for nearly 20 years

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