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Ukraine finds evidence of torture on bodies exhumed from Izyum burial site

Ukraine says three more grave sites have been located in areas retaken by Ukrainian forces.

The Independent UK

Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine, say UN investigators

Investigating teams reported evidence of executions, torture and sexual violence in civilian areas

The Guardian - UK

Moment mum who faked her own kidnapping to hide at ex's house is confronted by police

Sherri Papini vanished for 20 days back in 2016 before mysteriously reappearing, claiming to have been kidnapped and tortured - but police rumbled her web of lies

Daily Mirror

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A year after border crisis, Haitian asylum seekers face discriminatory treatment, report says

Haitians crossing the southern border of the United States without proper documentation are being subjected to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill treatment that amounts to race-based torture, Amnesty International says in a new report marking the first anniversary of the migration crisis at the U.S. border in Del…

Miami Herald

Many POWs freed by Russia had suffered torture - senior Ukraine official

The head of Ukraine's military intelligence said on Thursday the percentage of released Ukrainian prisoners of war who had suffered torture while in Russian detention was "rather high".

Reuters

In a retaken border village, Ukrainians point to signs of Russian abuse of civilians

Villagers describe allegations of abuse and officials say they found a torture chamber in Kozacha Lopan, in the Kharkiv region, which Russian forces invaded and took over at the start of the war.

WEKU

'My heart is broken', says mum of Manchester aid worker killed in Ukraine as British prisoners released by pro-Russia forces

The body of Paul Urey, 45, showed signs of 'unspeakable torture' after he died in captivity

Manchester Evening News

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Dad had boiling water poured over him during 'grotesque' 12-hour torture ordeal

Anthony Richardson, 29, abducted the victim from a street close to his home before subjecting him to a 12-hour campaign of torture.

Daily Record

COUNTERPOINT: Two plus two make five in Biden’s student loan handout

Someone once said that if you torture the data long enough, it will confess. Even still, it is difficult to manipulate the data to the point where you can justify the White House’s student loan handout. Simply put, the numbers do not add up.

Tribune News Service

Ukrainian prosecutors investigate evidence of Russian torture chambers

As Ukrainian forces have regained territory in the east, evidence of torture chambers used under Russian occupation has come to light.

France 24

'Grotesque' torturer kidnapped dad and poured boiling water on genitals in 12-hour ordeal

Anthony Richardson, 29, was part of a gang who snatched a rival from the street and tortured him for 12 hours

Manchester Evening News

Woman dated one of Britain's most wanted with no idea he tortured dad to death

Stella Paris spoke for the first time about her experience living with a man she imagined spending the rest of her life with before discovering he was a brutal killer

Daily Mirror

Filipino victims: Justice elusive decades after martial law

Survivors of torture and other atrocities under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos are marking his martial law declaration 50 years ago by pressing their demand for justice and apology from his son, who is now the president in a stunning reversal of his family's fortunes

The Independent UK

Ukrainian ex-serviceman claims Russians tortured him in eastern city of Izium

Alexander Glushko says he spent the last fortnight of the Russian occupation of his hometown of Izium in northeast Ukraine jailed by Russian soldiers in the dank ruins of a police station where he was tortured with electric wires.

Reuters

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Cambodian police raid alleged cybercrime trafficking compounds

Cambodian authorities said raids are underway this week at suspected cybercrime compounds across the Southeast Asian country, uncovering evidence of human trafficking, illegal confinement and torture.

ABC News

Former Australian hostage Kylie Moore-Gilbert launches legal action against Iran’s president

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was secretly tried and imprisoned by Iranian authorities for more than two years, launches legal action against Iran's president alleging he violated torture conventions.

Reuters

Venezuela's state security agencies repress oppositions through arbitrary arrests, torture -UN

Venezuela's state security agencies use arbitrary arrests and torture, which represent crimes against humanity, to repress the country's opposition in a plan directed by President Nicolas Maduro, according to a United Nations report published on Tuesday.

Liverpool Echo

Mafia syndicate linked to torture and murder arrested across Ibiza, Malaga and Tenerife

Spanish police arrested 32 suspects in connection with large scale drug trafficking and money laundering

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Al Jazeera

Mahsa Amini: UN calls for inquiry into Iranian woman’s death

UN says Amini’s death and allegations of torture must be ‘promptly’ investigated, but Iran’s police deny she was beaten.

The Independent UK

UN experts: Rights abuses continue in Maduro's Venezuela

Independent experts working with the U.N.‘s human rights body say Venezuelan authorities have failed to hold to account state-backed perpetrators of violations including arbitrary executions, sexual violence and torture of civilians

Daily Mirror

Inside Russian torture chamber discovered as Ukrainians found with genitals hacked off

Mutilated and tortured Ukrainian civilians were among the 450 people found in makeshift graves in Izyum after a lightning counter-offensive saw thousands of Russian soldiers flee the town

Daily Record

Russian torture chambers found in parts of Ukraine just liberated

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy compares Putin's forces to Nazis after investigators discover horrifying evidence of war crimes.

Daily Mirror

Horror as 10 torture chambers 'like the Nazis used' left by Russians in Ukraine

President Zelensky revealed the horrific discoveries had been made after areas of Ukraine had been liberated from Russian occupation

Al Jazeera

EU calls for war crimes tribunal over Ukraine mass graves

EU presidency calls for formation of international tribunal for war crimes after some 450 graves found outside Izyum.

The Independent UK

Izyum mass grave latest in alleged Russian atrocities meted out to Ukrainians

Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians as well as committing war crimes in Ukraine

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